SECS/GEM Software
Development Kits
SECS/GEM Software Development Kits
Software Development Kits (SDKs) are sets of software development tools, libraries, and documentation that enable developers to create applications for specific software platforms, hardware devices, or frameworks.
SDKs provide a foundation for building applications by offering pre-written code, functions, and resources that streamline the development process.
Cimetrix products have reliably and cost-effectively enable manufacturing equipment and factory software systems to connect and communicate over factory networks, providing the necessary model-based data and control capabilities that result in millions of dollars in manufacturing productivity benefits
Accelerate Development with
- Intelligent API calls
- Use libraries to save time and effort
- SEMI standard compliant documentation templates for every SDK
- Software to test completed application for every SDK purchase
Founded in 1989, Cimetrix Incorporated has been at the forefront of robotics, factory automation and smart manufacturing technology. As the leading worldwide provider of equipment connectivity products for smart manufacturing and industry 4.0, Cimetrix’s software products connect hundreds of thousands of equipment in the world’s most advanced factories.
Smart Connected Equipment
Cimetrix Incorporated award-winning products leverage open-architecture designs and industry standards (SECS/GEM, GEM300, EDA/Interface A) to deliver equipment connectivity and control software.
CIM300
Semiconductor factories require 300mm equipment-and some 200mm equipment to comply with the SEMI GEM300 communication standards, as well as fab specific scenarios.
CIM300 toolkit empowers equipment suppliers to implement GEM300 and SECS/GEM standards-compliant interfaces with the minimum amount of time and cost.
- Complex manufacturing scenarios are simplified into a few intelligent API calls
- Dynamic configuration makes it easier to support entire equipment families
- Interdependencies between GEM300 standards are handled automatically
- Cimetrix CIMConnect™ toolkit is included for implementation of SEMI SECS/GEM standards E4, E5, E30 and E37
- Software to test the completed application is included with the CIM300 SDK
CIM300 can be added to an existing equipment control application and is included with the Cimetrix CIMControlFramework (CCF) SDK.
CIMConnect
The Cimetrix CIMConnect software toolkit provides libraries, sample applications, testing tools and a GEM Manual template for developing and deploying communication interfaces on manufacturing equipment.
The CIMConnect toolkit offers:
- Support for multiple host connections, reducing development time while improving quality
- The CIMConnect Control Panel is a GUI tool for dynamically configuring, monitoring, and testing equipment interfaces
- Fully functional GEM communication out-of-the-box
- Automatic handling for many standard GEM Messages
- Dynamic configuration capability
- Support for SEMI E173 SECS Message Notation (SMN)
- Generates an E172 SECS Equipment Data Dictionary
- A framework for implementing the SEMI GEM300 standard using another Cimetrix product, the CIM300™ toolkit
- Testing software is compromised of TESTConnect™ and SECSConnect™
CIMPortal Plus
The CIMPortal Plus Software Development Kit (SDK) includes tools for designing, developing, testing, optimising, and deploying EDA communications that fully comply with the SEMI standards and accommodate data collection from different software and hardware platforms.
The CIMPortal™ software toolkit provides a comprehensive equipment data acquisition (EDA) solution for equipment manufacturers.
Equipment suppliers use the CIMPortal Plus software to implement an EDA interface in the minimum amount of time and cost. They especially like the many features CIMPortal Plus offers for equipment model development, which includes an easy-to-use GUI with Visual Studio-style property windows and drop-down menus for drag-and-drop model building
- Support for multiple host connections, reducing development time while improving quality
- The CIMConnect Control Panel is a GUI tool for dynamically configuring, monitoring, and testing equipment interfaces
- Fully functional GEM communication out-of-the-box
- Automatic handling for many standard GEM Messages
- Dynamic configuration capability
- Support for SEMI E173 SECS Message Notation (SMN)
- Generates an E172 SECS Equipment Data Dictionary
- A framework for implementing the SEMI GEM300 standard using another Cimetrix product, the CIM300™ toolkit
- Testing software is compromised of TESTConnect™ and SECSConnect™
CIMControlFramework
CIMControlFramework™ is an equipment automation framework based on Microsoft.NET technology. The CCF equipment control solution allows OEMs to meet the supervisory control, material handling, platform and process control and factory automation requirements of the fabs.
Modern, open architecture
- Well defined interfaces allow customization and/or replacement CCF components based on business needs
- Ease transition from current equipment control system to CCF, in an agile, iterative fashion, greatly reducing risk
- New components can be easily added and take advantage of existing services
- CCF GUIs can be developed using either WPF or WinForms
SECS/GEM, GEM300 and EDA standards are built-in
- Cimetrix keeps product current with standards at all times
Source Code
- Provides ultimate control when trying to optimize equipment performance
- OEM’s can better leverage in-house expertise to add value their process module and platform
Robust System Diagnostics
- Logging is built in and troubleshoots problems remotely
Smart Connected Factory
Architected for the Industrial Internet of Things, Cimetrix host connectivity products allow factories seamless connectivity to varying factory equipment within a single event-driven framework. Software Development Kit (SDK) provide rapid-deployment tools for factories to mine data available from shop floor equipment driving actionable insights for optimal decision-making.
HostConnect
The Cimetrix HostConnect™ is a software toolkit for rapidly developing host-side applications that connect to GEM equipment. It features a layered architecture to support a wide variety of host-side applications including equipment data collection, monitoring, process control, and optimisation in a production manufacturing environment. HostConnect can be used for testing equipment-side applications for compliance to GEM standards
The Cimetrix HostConnect toolkit offers:
- Multi-layer architecture
- Standards-based modules that encapsulate GEM equipment capabilities
- High-level configuration utility
- Dynamic configurable data types and communications settings
- Native .NET programming language design
- Management of message timeouts and transactions
- Bulit-in library of SECS-II message classes
- Ability to support custom message formats
EDAConnect
Cimetrix EDAConnect™ software enables semiconductor smart factories to gather data from precision equipment used for wafer processing and testing. This data is vital in a wide range of analysis, control, and decision support applications to reduce manufacturing cost, improve product quality, and increase overall productivity.
EDAConnect is appropriate for all EDA client applications and can also be used to implement Access Control List (ACL) administration, a requirement for all EDA implementations.
Feature and Benefits
- Use the same application to communicate with equipment using different versions of the EDA standards. Upgrade an application to a new version of the EDA standards without changing the application
Receive data and other equipment-initiated message notification using simple .NET delegates. It could not be easier
Minimise unnecessary communication with the equipment. View and analyse equipment models off-line.
- Establish an EDA session and gather data with minimal knowledge of the EDA standards.
- EDAConnect uses the CPU efficiently as possible
- With minimal development effort, develop applications with graphical user interface features to browse the equipment model and setup data collection
- Use the sample application source code as a resource for application development
Testing applications can verify specific details of the EDA web service operations
Applications can use the abstraction layer with confidence even when an equipment might implement a non ISMI freeze version of the standards. This can also be used to communication with equipment that have unusual interpretations of the EDA standard.
Data interpretation is simplified when the application does not have to maintain association between the data collection plan and the data collection reports.
Create SOAP message logs with minimal effort when tracking down defects.
Because applications at any time can enable or disable schema validation for all messages (incoming and outgoing, client-initiated and equipment-initiated), it is easy to diagnose violations of the standard schemas. At the same time, EDAConnect processes messages as best it can so that data collection can continue despite the violations.
The Electrotek Advantage
Electrotek is the authorised representative of Cimetrix across Southeast Asia in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. Let us know your requirements and needs! We are your trusted partner on the path to unlocking the full potential of our solutions and achieving unparalleled success in the realm of industrial automation.
