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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
May. 23, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Casey A. Barber, Kyle, TX (US);
Sam H. Allen, Jr., New Braunfels, TX (US);
John T. Halladay, Cedar Creek, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an equipment interface which obtains data communicated between a tool, such as a semiconductor manufacturing tool, and its host computer system in real-time via a point-to-point connection. The equipment interface distributes the data automatically and continually to other remote application programs without the need for hardware to be added to the tool or to the host computer system.