Patent · US Expired

Multi-computer chamber control system, method and medium

US6424880B1 · kind B1 · utility

10Cited by
8References
24Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateSep 10, 1999
Grant dateJul 23, 2002
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 10, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P90/02
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system, method and medium for controlling a wafer processing chamber using two or more processors (within one or more computer processing systems), wherein specified functions are assigned to each processor. Some embodiments contemplate that each processor may reside within its own computer processor system (each computer processor system being in communication with the other), wherein each computer processor system implements specified functions to control and maintain certain parameters involved in the manufacture of the wafer. This allows the present invention to react quickly to maintain rapidly-changing desired conditions within a wafer processing chamber and to maintain a greater degree of uniformity of those conditions throughout the wafer.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.