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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
Ebara Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsunori Sugiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Ebara Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention efficiently executes a plurality of functions of a substrate treatment apparatus. A control deviceincludes: a plurality of software applications (interface-related APSWand control-related APSW) configured to execute each function of treatments concerning a CMP apparatus; and a shared memorywhich stores information that is used in the plurality of software applications therein. The plurality of software applications include a task monitoring software applicationwhich monitors whether abnormality has occurred in the plurality of software applications or not. The task monitoring software applicationrestarts the software application in which the abnormality has occurred, when the abnormality has occurred in any of the plurality of software applications, and makes the other software applications continue the respective processes.