February 22, 2024
Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Zoom,
United States
Unlike the semiconductor ‘frontend’, the ‘backend’ has little standardization with lots of different interfaces and behaviors between different equipment suppliers. How can we standardize it and gain the efficiencies that standards brought to the frontend? SEMI has several standards suites that could be used depending on the customer’s needs, including SECS/GEM, EDA/Interface A and RITdb. This webinar will describe the benefits of each, as well discuss challenges around traceability and other issues commonly encountered in the backend, and how standards can benefit the equipment users.
Agenda
Opening Remarks
Alan Weber is currently the Vice President, New Product Innovations for Cimetrix Incorporated. Previously he served on the Board of Directors for eight years before joining the company as a full-time employee in 2011.
Alan has been a part of the semiconductor and manufacturing automation industries for over 40 years. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.
SECS/GEM
Brian Rubow is the Director of Solutions Engineering for Cimetrix. He is well-known within the industry due to his involvement with the SEMI standards committees. He currently serves as the co-chairs for the North America Information and Control Committee, the North America GEM300 Task Force, and the North America DDA Task Force. Rubow has both a bachelor’s and a master’s in engineering from Brigham Young University.
EDA/Interface A
Albert Fuchigami is a senior software developer at PEER Group Inc. and has spent more than 20 years helping semiconductor OEMs integrate their equipment into factories around the world. He is a globally recognized leader in the SEMI Standards Program, co-leads the North America Data Diagnostic Acquisition (DDA) Task Force, and contributes to the Information & Control Technical Committee. Albert enjoys demonstrating how standards can maximize data communication with factory host systems and is a champion for integrating HTTP/2 with gRPC and Protocol Buffers technology into the Equipment Data Acquisition (EDA) / Interface A standards. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics (Computer Science) degree from the University of Waterloo.
RITdB
Stacy Ajouri is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments in the Test Technology Group. She is the co-chair of the North America Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Technical Committee and the RITdb Task Force. She has over 30 years of experience across multiple disciplines related to test and test operations. Pulling from that experience, she supports the implementation of RITdb proof of concepts (POCs) focusing what is needed by the manufacturing and engineering community.
Mark Roos is CEO of Roos Instruments, a longtime producer of semiconductor ATE. He co-chairs the North America ATE Technical Committee and the RITdb Task Force. Roos has been involved in standards development for ATE for the past 20 years. He is currently heavily involved in the focus of RITdb POCs on scaling and latency.
Traceability and E142
Dave Huntley was the founder and president of KINESYS Software in 1992 which developed the Assembly Line Production Supervisor (ALPS). PDF Solutions acquired the ALPS in 2017 and Dave now works in Strategic Marketing, Business Development & Standards Liaison focused on defect / process tracking and single device traceability across the supply chain.
He has a long history working with SEMI. He was co-lead of the Sort Map task force responsible for the SEMI E142 Specification for Substrate Mapping Standard. Dave is now the co-lead for the Traceability committee and two SEMI task forces; 1) Advanced Backend Factory Integration working on applying and extending wafer fab automation standards to assembly and test and 2) Single Device Traceability task force working on blockchain traceability for the supply chain.
Closing Remarks
About Collaborative Alliance of Semiconductor Test (CAST)
CAST serves SEMI members and other stakeholders in the semiconductor test area. CAST members include leaders from automated test equipment (ATE) companies, fabless, IDMs, and OSAT companies. CAST members work with their customers, suppliers, and industry colleagues to develop industry standards that reduce costs and spur innovation.