ConX300 release history
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Previous releases
Release information
Version: 5.25 | Release Date: July 31, 2025
Overview
ConX300 version 5.25 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system support and updating SEMI® Standard compliance.
SEMI standards Support
Our products continue to adopt the latest SEMI standards, ensuring compliance for our customers as new standards are approved.
This version of ConX300 introduces support for cybersecurity status reporting, SEMI E191-1024.
SEMI E191 describes the cybersecurity status information that any tool connected to the host needs to report. This information can help factories evaluate the cybersecurity risk that the device represents; for example, an end-of-life operating system is more vulnerable to malware incidents as it is not receiving security updates from the OS manufacturer.
ConX300 added support for the following SEMI standards:
- E30-0125
- E40-0324
- E40.1-1218 (0324)
- E90-1224
- E94-0324
- E157-0324
- E191-1024
Supported technologies
ConX300 added support for:
- Windows 11 Enterprise 2024
- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
- Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021
ConX300 discontinued support for:
- Windows 11 Enterprise 23H2
- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019
- Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019
- Windows Server 2019 Standard
- Windows Server 2016 Standard
Release information
Version: 5.24|Release Date: July 26, 2024|Customer support portal
ConX300 version 5.24 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system support and updating SEMI Standard compliance.
Technology support
ConX300 now supports:
- Windows 11 Enterprise 23H2
- Visual Studio 2022 (VC++ 17)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9*
- GCC 11.4
SEMI Standard Support
Our products continue to adopt the latest SEMI standards, ensuring compliance for our customers as new standards are approved.
ConX300 now supports:
- E4-0923
- E5-0224
- E30-0224
- E39-1218(0124)
- E109-1017(0623)
Release information
Version: 5.23|Release Date: November 24, 2022|Customer support portal
ConX300 version 5.23 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system support and updating SEMI Standard compliance.
Technology support
ConX300 now supports:
- Windows Server 2022 LTSC
ConX300 no longer supports:
- Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 Standard (64-bit)
SEMI Standard Support
Our products continue to adopt the latest SEMI standards, ensuring compliance for our customers as new standards are approved.
ConX300 now supports:
- E5-0821
- E37-0222
- E90-0921
- E90.1-0921
- E148-0222
Release information
Version:
5.22
Release Date:
July 22, 2021
Customer Support:
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What’s new in this release
ConX300 version 5.22 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system support.
Technology Support
Our products continue to adopt new computing technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of the latest versions of computing platforms. ConX300 now supports the Microsoft® Windows IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019 operating system.
ConX300 no longer supports the following operating systems: Microsoft® Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.
Release information
Version:
5.21
Release Date:
October 28, 2020
Customer Support:
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What’s new in this release
ConX300™ version 5.21 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system and development environment support. It also includes support for SEMI® automation standards updates.
Technology support
Our products continue to adopt new computing technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of the latest versions of computing platforms. ConX300 now supports the Microsoft® Windows® Server 2019 operating system.
ConX300 no longer supports the following operating systems: Microsoft® Windows® 7 or 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (R2 and SP2), Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard (2009 and 7), and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5. Additionally, ConX300 no longer supports Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013.
SEMI standard support
Our products continue to adopt new versions of the SEMI standards, enabling compliance for our customers as the standards are approved. ConX300 now includes support for the following SEMI standards:
- E4-0418
- E5-0220E
- E30-0520
- E37-0819
- E37.1-0819
- E39-1218
- E39.1-1218
- E40.1-1218
- E94.1-0312 (0819)
The SEDD template has been updated to indicate support for the new versions of the standards including the addition to E30 required DVs: GemOperatorCommand, GemOperatorCommandIssued and GemECIDChanged.
Release information
Version:
5.20
Release Date:
September 19, 2019
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
ConX300® version 5.20 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system and development environment support.
Development Environment Support
ConX300 has added Visual Studio® 2017 and Visual Studio® 2019 to its list of supported development environments and sample solutions.
Technology Support
Our products continue to adopt new computing technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of the latest versions of computing platforms. ConX300 now supports the Microsoft® Windows® 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 operating system and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.
SEMI Standard Support
Our products continue to adopt new versions of the SEMI® standards, enabling compliance for our customers as the standards are approved. ConX300 now includes support for the following SEMI standards:
- E5-0219
- E30-0418
- E37-1018
- E40-1218
- E87-0818
- E90-0312 (1218)
- E94-0314 (0819)
- E109-1017
- E116-0518
Release information
Version:
5.19
Release Date:
March 7, 2019
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
ConX300™ version 5.19 is an upgrade release which extends technology support, provides enhancements to existing product capabilities, and integrates support for partitioning tool configuration into multiple GCD files to improve tool information organization.
Technology Support
Our products continue to adopt new technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of the latest computing platforms as they become available. ConX300 now supports Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016.
Release information
Version:
5.18
Release Date:
July 19, 2018
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
In today’s highly competitive manufacturing world, companies strive to reduce costs and many are engaging in new initiatives for Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and IIoT. As industry leaders, we continue to advance our products to solve customer problems and address new industry goals. In ConX300™ 5.18 we have introduced support for SEMI® standard E172 which introduces standardization for equipment interface guides. Equipment makers who want to optimize equipment integrations and upgrades can use ConX300 capabilities to auto-generate SEMI-compliant Host Interface Guides.
E172 Specification for SECS Equipment Data Dictionary (SEDD)
Host Interface Guides describe equipment capabilities to help plan integration with factory systems. ConX300 now auto-generates equipment definition documents compliant with the SEMI® E172 Standard that equipment makers can deliver to their factory customers. Factory personnel can use ConX300 E172 SECS Equipment Data Dictionary (SEDD) documents to accelerate placing equipment into production and gaining factory acceptance.
General improvements
Several product enhancements and customer-logged issues were addressed in this release. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
Existing GCD files will need to be recompiled for use with version 5.18. For more information on upgrading your solution, see the ConX300 Getting Started Guide.
Release information
Version:
5.17
Release Date:
August 25, 2017
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
ConX300™ version 5.17 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending our Technology and Development Environment support, as well as general improvements.
Technology support
Our products continue to adopt new computing technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of new computing platforms as they become available. ConX300 now supports Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7 and Windows 10 LTSB 2016 operating system.
Development environment support
ConX300 has added Visual Studio® 2015 to its list of supported development environments and sample solutions.
SEMI Standard support
Our products continue to adopt new versions of the SEMI® standards, enabling our customers to be compliant as the standards are approved. In this release of ConX300, we now support the 0416 version of the E30 Generic Model of Communication and Control of Manufacturing Equipment (GEM) standard.
General improvements
Several enhancements and customer-reported issues have been addressed in this release. Please contact us for details.
Release information
Version:
5.16
Release Date:
September 30, 2015
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
ConX300™ version 5.16 is an upgrade release with a focus on extending operating system support and continued enhancements to existing product capabilities.
Technology support
Our products continue to adopt new computing technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of new computing platforms as they become available. ConX300 now supports the Microsoft® Windows 8.1, Microsoft® Windows 10 and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 R2 operating systems.
General improvements
We resolved several customer-reported issues and requests for ConX300. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
There are no known issues that affect backwards compatibility with existing versions of ConX300 5.15.
Release information
Version:
5.15
Release Date:
October 29, 2014
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
SEMI standards
We have continued to expand ConX300™ SEMI standards support, and ConX300 now supports E40.1-0813 mapping of RecID to RECPSPEC or PPID.
ConX300 Data Item ID support has been aligned with GWGEM®’s addition of data format 50/U8 [8-byte integer (unsigned)] support.
ConX300 E109 support has been expanded, adding a new alarm to signal the host when reticle destinations are not available.
Technology support
Our products continue to adopt new computing technologies, enabling our customers to take advantage of new computing platforms as they become available. ConX300 now supports Windows Server® 2012 operating system. Support for older technologies has ended consequently ConX300 no longer supports Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 operating systems as well as development tools of Visual Studio® 6, 2003, 2005, and GNU C 3.4.4.
General improvements
We resolved several customer-logged issues and requests for ConX300. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
ConX300 5.15 is fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with ConX300 5.14.
Release information
Version:
5.14
Release Date:
December 10, 2013
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
Development environment support
ConX300™ is continuing to stay current with development environments and has added support for Microsoft® Visual Studio 2012.
Expanded SEMI E109 support
The E109 standard is used by lithography, reticle inspection and bare reticle stocker equipment to define reticle and reticle pod transfers to and from the equipment as well as reticle movement within the equipment.
The implementation of E109 can vary from full E109 support to using E109 to transfer reticles on the front end while using traditional GEM300 E94 and E40 commands for reticle movement and processing within the tool. E109 is closely associated with E87 and some implementers choose to leverage portions of existing E87 solutions. ConX300 has expanded its E109 support and now gives implementers the option to use either E109 or E87 conventions for slot map verification.
General improvements
We also resolved several customer-logged issues and requests for ConX300. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
Besides required GCD updates, ConX300 5.14 is otherwise fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with ConX300 5.13.
Release information
Version:
5.13
Release Date:
December 10, 2012
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
Operating system and development environment support
ConX300™ is continuing to stay current with development environments and has added support for the following to its list of supported environments and sample solutions:
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6
- Windows® Embedded Standard 7
- Windows® Embedded Standard 2009
General improvements
We also resolved several customer-logged issues and requests for ConX300. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
ConX300 5.13 is fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with ConX300 5.11 and later.
Release information
Version:
5.12
Release Date:
July 29, 2011
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
The 5.12 release of ConX300™ supports the newest SEMI standards demanded by manufacturers in the semiconductor, LED, solar, and MEMS industries.
SEMI E109 – Specification for Reticle and Pod Management (RPMS)
The E109 standard is used by lithography, reticle inspection and bare reticle stocker equipment to define reticle and reticle pod transfers to and from the equipment as well as reticle movement within the equipment.
The implementation of E109 can vary from full E109 support to using E109 to transfer reticles on the front end while using traditional GEM300 E94 and E40 commands for reticle movement and processing within the tool.
SEMI E148 – Specification for Time Synchronization and Definition of the TS-Clock Object
The E148 standard is used to synchronize equipment computer clocks within a factory where the equipment provides time-sensitive data that requires date and time accuracy across multiple factory components.
The time resolution and time server source requirements will vary across equipment makers and factories, making it important for connectivity solutions to support customers integrating their preferred time server solution to meet their time synchronization needs.
SEMI E157 – Specification for Module Process Tracking
The E157 standard reports process-related data during the execution of a recipe at a processing location, which provides important context data to support applications that optimize yields and improve overall factory performance.
SEMI E87-0709 – Specification for Carrier Management
ConX300 provides new Access Mode Violation alarms to better support the modifications to the SEMI E87-0709 standard.
Operating system and development environment support
Red Hat’s support of the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 3 AS/ES/WS operating system was discontinued as of October 31, 2010. As a result, ConX300 is no longer being tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
General improvements
We resolved several customer-logged issues and requests for ConX300. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
ConX300 5.12 is fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with ConX300 5.11 and later.
Release information
Version:
5.11
Release Date:
October 14, 2010
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
What’s new in this release
This release of ConX300™ is an upgrade release with a focus on expanding operating system support, streamlining the installation process, improving product documentation, and enhancing the product based on customer requests and defect fixes
Operating system support
ConX300 now runs on several new platforms, including Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows® Server 2008 (SP2 and R2), and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5, in addition to all previously supported operating systems. ConX300 is no longer tested on Microsoft Windows® 2000.
Improved installation
We have rebranded the software from Asyst Technologies to PEER Group. With this rebranding effort we have significantly reduced installation effort by streamlining the Windows installation process to include the required components, SDR™ and GWGEM®. An improved user interface also provides additional control over file deployment, letting users specify which files to install for development or runtime environments.
General improvements
We have resolved several customer logged issues and requests for ConX300. Please contact us for details.
Version compatibility
ConX300 5.11 is fully compatible with equipment control solutions developed with ConX300 5.10.
Release information
Version:
5.10
Release Date:
November 3, 2009
Customer Support:
support.connectivity@peergroup.com
SEMI standard updates
There have been various updates to the E5 standard.
Product corrections
Several reported issues have been resolved. Please contact for us for details.
Previous technology support changes
| Product version | Change | Technology | Change date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.26 | Support ended |
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July 30, 2026 |
| 5.25 | Support ended |
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July 31, 2025 |
| 5.23 | Support ended |
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November 24, 2022 |
| 5.22 | Support ended |
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July 22, 2021 |
| 5.21 | Support ended |
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October 28, 2020 |
| 5.15 | Support ended |
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October 29, 2014 |
| 5.12 | Support ended |
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July 29, 2011 |
| 5.11 | Support ended |
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October 14, 2010 |