Cimetrix Incorporated announced the availability of the CIMPortal Plus software development kit. CIMPortal Plus software provides a comprehensive equipment data acquisition (EDA) solution for equipment manufacturers as well as for integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) retrofitting existing equipment. The Software Development Kit (SDK) includes tools for designing, developing, testing, optimizing, and deploying EDA/Interface A communications that fully comply with the SEMI standards and accommodates data collection from different software and hardware platforms. CIMPortal Plus is built upon the award winning, industry-leading CIMPortal software toolkit that has set the standard for Interface A connectivity development.

Cimetrix developed CIMPortal Plus specifically to support the development of the EDA/Interface A standards, Freeze Version I (1105) and Freeze Version II (0710). In addition, CIMPortal Plus supports the more recent E164 Specification for EDA Common Metadata. The E164 standard, initially approved by SEMI in mid-2012, was developed to encourage companies using Interface A connections to provide a more common representation of equipment metadata.

Developers can use the Metadata Conformance Analyzer (MCA), available from SEMATECH, to validate the equipment models they generate. The CIMPortal Plus software is part of the complete Cimetrix EDA/Interface A connectivity solution that supports both the equipment side and the client side implementation of SEMI standards. Along with CIMPortal Plus, Cimetrix also offers EDAConnect(TM) software for semiconductor manufacturers and the Equipment Client Connection Emulator (ECCE).

All of these products support the development of Freeze Version I and Freeze Version II of the SEMI EDA/Interface A standards.