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Tegal and CIMAC enter partnership
The partnership should bring greater efficiency and throughput to semiconductor processing equipment. Software development for PVD tool and enhancements to PVD cluster tool highlight partnership.
Semiconductor equipment supplier Tegal Corporation and CIMAC, a software service solutions provider, announced that they have entered into a partnership to create enhanced operating systems and user interfaces for Tegal AMS PVD thin film deposition systems.
The Tegal AMS PVD systems provides performance for the reactive sputtering of aluminium nitride (AlN) films used to fabricate piezoelectric devices such as BAW and FBAR filters for the cell phone handset market. The AMS platform is one of Tegal's most recent product offerings for depositing and etching materials vital to MEMS device development and commercial manufacturing. CIMAC is providing software development for the tool operating system, the GUI user interface, and SECS/GEM communications.
CIMAC has also been developing software enhancements for Tegal’s current generation line of PVD cluster tools. These enhancements include the development and deployment of improved SECS/GEM communications, and also software upgrades for managing the tool efficiency and throughput benefits created when a second vacuum load lock is added to the system.
“Our partnership with CIMAC has been both cost effective and efficient,” commented Jim Apffel, engineering director at Tegal. “We’ve been able to put our efforts toward our core competencies of PVD cluster tools and let CIMAC enhance the product lines with their expertise in software.”
“This is a perfect example of our value added service,” commented Yezala Abayneh, President & CEO of CIMAC. “For over 10 years we have been partnering with equipment suppliers to enhance the productivity of their current generation tools and to bring to market new tools with state of the art software capabilities.”
The Tegal AMS PVD systems provides performance for the reactive sputtering of aluminium nitride (AlN) films used to fabricate piezoelectric devices such as BAW and FBAR filters for the cell phone handset market. The AMS platform is one of Tegal's most recent product offerings for depositing and etching materials vital to MEMS device development and commercial manufacturing. CIMAC is providing software development for the tool operating system, the GUI user interface, and SECS/GEM communications.
CIMAC has also been developing software enhancements for Tegal’s current generation line of PVD cluster tools. These enhancements include the development and deployment of improved SECS/GEM communications, and also software upgrades for managing the tool efficiency and throughput benefits created when a second vacuum load lock is added to the system.
“Our partnership with CIMAC has been both cost effective and efficient,” commented Jim Apffel, engineering director at Tegal. “We’ve been able to put our efforts toward our core competencies of PVD cluster tools and let CIMAC enhance the product lines with their expertise in software.”
“This is a perfect example of our value added service,” commented Yezala Abayneh, President & CEO of CIMAC. “For over 10 years we have been partnering with equipment suppliers to enhance the productivity of their current generation tools and to bring to market new tools with state of the art software capabilities.”
