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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
George Logsdon, Arlington, TX (US);
Gary Elmore, Arlington, TX (US);
John Devlin, Mansfield, TX (US);
George Logsdon, Arlington, TX (US);
Gary Elmore, Arlington, TX (US);
John Devlin, Mansfield, TX (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for allocating multi-function resources among a plurality of tasks within a wetdeck process in semiconductor wafer fabrication. A resource allocator allocates multi-function resources among tasks within a process system that executes at least one application process. The resource allocator comprises a monitoring controller, model of the process system and a resource allocation controller. The monitoring controller monitors measurable characteristics associated with the executing application process, multi-function resources and tasks. The model represents the multi-function resources and the tasks, and defines relationships among them. The resource allocation controller operates the model in response to the monitored measurable characteristics and allocates ones of the multi-function resources among ones of the tasks to efficiently execute the wetdeck process of the semiconductor wafer fabrication process.