IDA Enterprise Edition includes additional modules for large scale database management and real-time process monitoring
/HiTech PR News/ - SANTA CLARA, CA, March 28, 2008 - SiGlaz, a world leader in defect spatial signature analysis (SSA) software, today announced that its initial installation of Intelligent Defect Analysis (IDA) Enterprise Edition has been accepted by Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer based in Taiwan. IDA software automatically analyzes the spatial distribution of defects on the wafer, using its patented algorithms, and notifies the user when it recognizes a signature. Defect spatial signatures may result from process excursions or from failures in process equipment.
IDA Enterprise Edition, which operates on a Microsoft Windows-based server with .NET framework and web service architecture, is compatible with all leading database software, including Microsoft SQL Server. It provides a fab-wide repository for signature analysis results and the ability to access those results in real time and from remote locations. A new IDA module, called Real Time Process Monitor, allows the user to run concurrent process control rules and generate alarms, refreshing the data hourly, daily or weekly. Another new module, called IDA Navigator, provides trend analysis capability and ad hoc queries of analysis results, and it allows the user to build, set and save process control rules and alarms.
"The Enterprise Edition of IDA provides a major benefit to our fab, in terms of analyzing large volumes of production defect data," according to a Winbond spokesperson. "Not only does IDA notify the engineer when it identifies a defect signature, the engineer can quickly access the IDA database from any location and view all of the data in the affected lots. In addition, IDA Auto-Learn capability and Layer Repeater Analysis enable us to identify new signatures that were not previously trained into the signature library."
SiGlaz IDA software automatically classifies defects associated with a spatial signature. When the performance of the software is compared to a human expert, the average performance of classification has been above 90%.
Victor Luu, SiGlaz President and CEO said, "We are very excited about our new software platform. IDA Enterprise Edition provides an upgrade path for our users to expand the utility and application of SSA in the fab. This new platform will be the foundation for other new SiGlaz products in the development pipeline that will soon allow users to correlate defect signatures with electrical test results, and then with other metrology data."
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Showing posts with label nanotechnology. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
nanoXplorer IDE - The Essential Software Resource for Nanotechnology Workgroups
nanoXplorer IDE - The Essential Software Resource for Nanotechnology Workgroups: "nanoXplorer IDE, available for download, is a software application for systems engineering of nanoscale devices--the essential software resource for nanotechnology engineers. It is the world's first software to make the nanodevice its central paradigm--empowering the nanoengineer to move to the vanguard of the nanotechnology revolution. If your team works with nanodevices, you need nanoXplorer IDE."
nanoXplorer IDE's research capabilities help you to stay current with the rapidly evolving multi-disciplinary field of nanotechnology. It contains introductory information for students or the non-technical and in depth information for professionals, educators and those pursuing advanced degrees. Getting the information you need is as simple as a single click on any of the dozens of nanotechnology-related topics available in the Research Perspective.
Designing nanoscale devices and other molecular systems is not an easy thing to do; nanoengineering is a truly multidisciplinary activity, requiring tools from chemistry, physics, computer-aided design, high-end visualization, mechanical engineering, and other areas. nanoXplorer IDE is unique in that it makes the nanodevice its central design paradigm and models more than just the chemistry. It provides an advanced 3D design space for constructing atomically precise nanoscale components. It offers workspaces where NanoFiles containing descriptions of nanocomponents can be quickly inspected. It provides wizards for the creation of common nanoscale molecules like nanotubes, buckyballs and DNA. In total, it offers an environment that supports your workgroup's requirements to work efficiently, accurately and collaboratively at the cutting edge of nanotechnology.
nanoXplorer IDE's research capabilities help you to stay current with the rapidly evolving multi-disciplinary field of nanotechnology. It contains introductory information for students or the non-technical and in depth information for professionals, educators and those pursuing advanced degrees. Getting the information you need is as simple as a single click on any of the dozens of nanotechnology-related topics available in the Research Perspective.
Designing nanoscale devices and other molecular systems is not an easy thing to do; nanoengineering is a truly multidisciplinary activity, requiring tools from chemistry, physics, computer-aided design, high-end visualization, mechanical engineering, and other areas. nanoXplorer IDE is unique in that it makes the nanodevice its central design paradigm and models more than just the chemistry. It provides an advanced 3D design space for constructing atomically precise nanoscale components. It offers workspaces where NanoFiles containing descriptions of nanocomponents can be quickly inspected. It provides wizards for the creation of common nanoscale molecules like nanotubes, buckyballs and DNA. In total, it offers an environment that supports your workgroup's requirements to work efficiently, accurately and collaboratively at the cutting edge of nanotechnology.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale, generally 100 nanometers or smaller, and the fabrication of devices with critical dimensions that lie within that size range.
Nanotechnology is a highly multidisciplinary field, drawing from fields such as applied physics, materials science, interface and colloid science, device physics, supramolecular chemistry (which refers to the area of chemistry that focuses on the noncovalent bonding interactions of molecules), self-replicating machines and robotics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, biological engineering, and electrical engineering. Much speculation exists as to what may result from these lines of research. Nanotechnology can be seen as an extension of existing sciences into the nanoscale, or as a recasting of existing sciences using a newer, more modern term. Grouping of the sciences under the umbrella of "nanotechnology" has been questioned on the basis that there is little actual boundary-crossing between the different sciences that operate on the nano-scale. Instrumentation is the only area of technology common to all disciplines; on the contrary, for example pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries do not "talk with each other". Corporations that call their products "nanotechnology" typically market them only to a certain industrial cluster.
Two main approaches are used in nanotechnology. In the "bottom-up" approach, materials and devices are built from molecular components which assemble themselves chemically by principles of molecular recognition. In the "top-down" approach, nano-objects are constructed from larger entities without atomic-level control. The impetus for nanotechnology comes from a renewed interest in Interface and Colloid Science, coupled with a new generation of analytical tools such as the atomic force microscope (AFM), and the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Combined with refined processes such as electron beam lithography and molecular beam epitaxy, these instruments allow the deliberate manipulation of nanostructures, and lead to the observation of novel phenomena.
Examples of nanotechnology in modern use are the manufacture of polymers based on molecular structure, and the design of computer chip layouts based on surface science. Despite the great promise of numerous nanotechnologies such as quantum dots and nanotubes, real commercial applications have mainly used the advantages of colloidal nanoparticles in bulk form, such as suntan lotion, cosmetics, protective coatings, drug delivery, and stain resistant clothing.
Nanotechnology is a highly multidisciplinary field, drawing from fields such as applied physics, materials science, interface and colloid science, device physics, supramolecular chemistry (which refers to the area of chemistry that focuses on the noncovalent bonding interactions of molecules), self-replicating machines and robotics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, biological engineering, and electrical engineering. Much speculation exists as to what may result from these lines of research. Nanotechnology can be seen as an extension of existing sciences into the nanoscale, or as a recasting of existing sciences using a newer, more modern term. Grouping of the sciences under the umbrella of "nanotechnology" has been questioned on the basis that there is little actual boundary-crossing between the different sciences that operate on the nano-scale. Instrumentation is the only area of technology common to all disciplines; on the contrary, for example pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries do not "talk with each other". Corporations that call their products "nanotechnology" typically market them only to a certain industrial cluster.
Two main approaches are used in nanotechnology. In the "bottom-up" approach, materials and devices are built from molecular components which assemble themselves chemically by principles of molecular recognition. In the "top-down" approach, nano-objects are constructed from larger entities without atomic-level control. The impetus for nanotechnology comes from a renewed interest in Interface and Colloid Science, coupled with a new generation of analytical tools such as the atomic force microscope (AFM), and the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Combined with refined processes such as electron beam lithography and molecular beam epitaxy, these instruments allow the deliberate manipulation of nanostructures, and lead to the observation of novel phenomena.
Examples of nanotechnology in modern use are the manufacture of polymers based on molecular structure, and the design of computer chip layouts based on surface science. Despite the great promise of numerous nanotechnologies such as quantum dots and nanotubes, real commercial applications have mainly used the advantages of colloidal nanoparticles in bulk form, such as suntan lotion, cosmetics, protective coatings, drug delivery, and stain resistant clothing.
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