Datavision is continually updated and improved. Our philisophy is to provide our customers with patch releases whenever we make modifications to the product so that they can benefit from the changes as soon as possible rather than have to wait months for the next major release.
Although we sometimes add enhancements that are customer specific, we produce only one version of Datavision which ships to all customers.
Web Reports
We have recently introduced Web Reports as a Datavision option.
The Web Reports are not intended to replace the in-depth data filtering and sorting that Datavision allows.
Instead, the Web Reports enable the companys' engineers and managers worldwide to view the data collected and stored in the standard Datavision databases.
We already have histogram, trend, scatter, and wafer map (single and stacked) charts and spreadsheets showing test summary data and lot history information that includes genealogy data.
In adding Web Reports to Datavision, we enhanced the "Table of Contents" database, "Batch" (built-in automation capability) and integrated web server-side programs with Datavision.
Our current development focus is on adding new report types.
Data Loaders
Over the years, many data loaders have been created; some for general use and some for custom use.
Data loaders are comprised of a data parser and a script to map data into database tables and fields. The two part architecture makes creating a new loader much easier and customisation is done through modifications to the script and not the parser.
Our most recent data loaders have been for the Tesec SpeKtra® data format and for fab inline data.
Wafer Map
The Wafer Map chart allows 2D and 3D views of single and stacked wafer maps in bar and surface view.
We have recently improved the Wafer Map software so that wafers with more than 256 die in X or Y could be displayed. (That's over 51,000 die on the wafer if you consider the wafer radius to be 128 die). With that large number of die we also improved the wafer map performance.
The Wafer Map software breaks the data range into 6 equal sub-ranges and assigns a colour to each sub-range. The user can change the number, break points and assigned colour of each sub-range. It has long been possible to save a custom set of sub-ranges. This has been improved to allow many sets of sub-ranges to be saved and for the user to select the sub-range set required.