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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2016
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Everton Norman, Bountiful, UT (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for executing a block-based workflow to provide a schedule for a semiconductor manufacturing environment. The block-based workflow includes a plurality of blocks and each block specifies a set of operations to be performed upon execution of each block. One embodiment includes extracting scheduling data from the semiconductor manufacturing environment, determining an allocation of the number of lots to one or more devices operating in the semiconductor manufacturing environment, determining an order in which the lots should be processed by the one or more devices and publishing results of the allocation and processing order to at least one another device in the semiconductor manufacturing environment, based on the plurality of blocks in the block-based workflow.