대한기계학회논문집A (Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A)

  • 제29권1호
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  • Pages.96-106
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  • 2005
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  • 1226-4873(pISSN)
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  • 2288-5226(eISSN)
대한기계학회 (The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers)
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예외상황 처리를 고려한 반도체 통합제조장비 시뮬레이터

Simulator of Integrated Single-Wafer Processing Tools with Contingency Handling

  • 김우석 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 전영하 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 이두용 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
  • 발행 : 2005.01.01
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An integrated single-wafer processing tool, composed of multiple single wafer processing modules, transfer robots, and load locks, has complex routing sequences, and often has critical post-processing residency constraints. Scheduling of these tools is an intricate problem, and testing schedulers with actual tools requires too much time and cost. The Single Wafer Processor (SWP) simulator presented in this paper is to validate an on-line scheduler, and evaluate performance of integrated single-wafer processing tools before the scheduler is actually deployed into real systems. The data transfer between the scheduler and the simulator is carried out with TCP/IP communication using messages and files. The developed simulator consists of six modules, i.e., GUI (Graphic User Interface), emulators, execution system, module managers, analyzer, and 3D animator. The overall framework is built using Microsoft Visual C++, and the animator is embodied using OpenGL API (Application Programming Interface).

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