Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Automation

We design, build, and validate the software that connects semiconductor manufacturing equipment to the smart factory — pairing deep SEMI-standards knowledge with hands-on mastery of the Cimetrix toolkit suite.

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11+GEM300 SEMI standards implemented (E5–E157)

25+ yrProven Cimetrix framework lineage

Multi-vendorBrooks, Rudolph Tech, Asyst, TEL, TSMC (FAB 14)

Equipment automation expertise

Connect. Control. Comply.

We design, build, and validate the software that connects semiconductor manufacturing equipment to the smart factory — from the equipment-side interface to full GEM300 & EDA conformance.

Connect

Standards-based equipment-to-host communication.

Control

Supervisory control, scheduling & material handling.

Comply

Certified GEM/GEM300/EDA conformance & testing.

Where we operate in the automation stack

We build and certify the middle layer

The interfaces and control logic that make equipment and factory interoperate — from the tool itself up to scheduling, dispatch, and yield systems.

FACTORY HOST / MES

Scheduling, Dispatch & Analytics

Scheduling · dispatch · analytics · APC · yield systems.

CONNECTIVITY & CONTROL LAYER

SECS/GEM · GEM300 · EDA/Interface A

CIMConnect · CIM300 · CIMControlFramework — plus custom equipment controls. This is the layer we build and certify.

EQUIPMENT

Tools & Process Modules

Robots · load ports · process modules · vision / metrology.

The Cimetrix connectivity & control suite

Proven expertise across the Cimetrix toolkit stack

Frameworks trusted across global 300mm fabs — each layer building on the one before it.

01 — Foundation

CIMConnect

SECS/GEM connectivity toolkit — the equipment-side GEM interface foundation.

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02 — Standards

CIM300

GEM300 SDK — full 300mm standards compliance, built on CIMConnect.

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03 — Control

CIMControl | Framework

.NET equipment-control framework — supervisory control & factory automation.

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04 — Validation

Test & EDA Tools

EquipmentTest, ECCE Plus, EDATester & CIMPortal Plus for validation and EDA.

SECS/GEM integration experience

GEM communication interfaces, built and deployed at scale

Using the Cimetrix CIMConnect toolkit, we've built and deployed GEM communication interfaces for a wide range of manufacturing equipment — libraries, sample apps, testing tools and a GEM manual template.

Dynamic configuration — deployed GEM across equipment families with minimal redundant code.
Control Panel — real-time diagnostics, testing & simulation; watch live SECS-II traffic.
Multiple-host support — secondary read-only hosts for validation without stopping production.
Broad standards — SECS-I, SECS-II, HSMS, E30, PV2, HB4, PCBECI.

GEM300 expertise

Full GEM300 compliance, built on the CIMConnect core

Deep expertise using CIM300 to enable full GEM300 compliance across a wide range of equipment modalities.

Integrated standards — skilled at orchestrating complex GEM300 standard interdependencies while layering in custom, equipment-specific behavior.
Simplified API — proven at implementing carrier and slot-map verification in just a few API calls to speed delivery.
Modular implementation — experienced in deploying standards selectively to fit each tool, e.g. E90 without E87, E40 without E94.
Built-in testing — rigorous in validating every interface with EquipmentTest Pro GEM300 for manual and automated conformance.

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Integration: C++, C#, VB.NET · Windows · TCP/IP

Equipment control integration experience

Complete equipment-control applications, standards built in

Deep expertise using CIMControlFramework (CCF) to build supervisory control, material handling and operator interfaces — with SEMI standards built in.

Supervisory control

Configurable recipe management, scheduling & data handling.

Standards built-in

Experienced wiring up GEM, GEM300 & EDA/Interface A interfaces.

Sample implementations

Proven across atmospheric, vacuum cluster-tool & continuous-flow tools.

Rich operator UI

Adept at building WPF & WinForms operator interfaces.

Extensible & substitutable

Practiced in overriding & extending CCF for specific hardware.

Diagnostics

Fluent with LogViewer & remote troubleshooting to cut downtime.

EDA integration experience

High-performance EDA / Interface A, streamed to fab analytics

Deep expertise implementing EDA / Interface A interfaces with CIMPortal Plus — streaming rich, secured equipment data to fab analytics and APC. Complements the GEM control interface with high-volume trace data for analytics.

E164 metadata modeling — skilled at building E164-compliant equipment models with visual model tooling & validation.
Dual freeze support — experienced delivering one model that serves Freeze I & Freeze II simultaneously.
Secured collection — practiced in E132 authentication / ACLs with E134 data plans, triggers & trace data.
Flexible data sources — proven at collecting from SECS/GEM, TCP/IP & custom sources concurrently.
Conformance validation — rigorous in validating interfaces with EDATester & ECCE Plus before deployment.

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Freeze I & II · secured (E132) · self-describing equipment models

Equipment integration experience

Integrated and automated across front-end, back-end, assembly, test & inspection

Connecting each tool to the factory host under the relevant SEMI standards.

Brooks Automation

Wafer-handling robots, load ports & vacuum automation.

GEM · GEM300 (E87/E90)

Rudolph Tech

Metrology & inspection / process-control systems integration for ADB Fab in Dresden, Germany.

GEM · GEM300 (E87/E90)

Asyst Technologies

Wafer & component inspection systems.

GEM · GEM300 (E87/E90)

Tokyo Electronics

Atmospheric & vacuum cluster tools, assembly & test.

GEM · GEM300 (E87/E90)

Automating semiconductor equipment integration?

Bring us your SECS/GEM, GEM300, or EDA/Interface A challenge — we've certified interfaces across 300mm fabs worldwide.

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