Research and development of a multiple data source curve drawing software for IC equipment

It is essential that IC equipment control software can get more intuitive information from the production data during wafer manufacturing. Currently, data are provided to users in a report form in most IC control systems that are not intuitive and cannot reflect the data trend of a long-term change. However, only a few IC equipment control systems can provide curve display function, which is still incomplete and inflexibility, and it is difficult to implement flexible configuration according to the user requirements. Therefore, C# control technology and XML approaches were studied, a flexible and multiple data source curve drawing software for IC equipment are introduced in this paper. This software supports multiple data source data source data acquisition and conversion, it can set curve parameters dynamically. In addition, it is easy to share the resource, operate, maintain and upgrade the software.