At a glance
| Booth | J2834 |
| Country | US |
| Website | www.pdf.com |
Company profile
PDF Solutions, Inc. provides data solutions for organizations across the semiconductor and electronics ecosystems, with the stated goals of improving product yield and quality, operational efficiency and profitability. Its products and services are used by Fortune 500 companies across the semiconductor ecosystem to support smart-manufacturing objectives through equipment connectivity and control, manufacturing and test data collection, advanced analytics and machine learning. PDF Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The company, directly or through subsidiaries, is an active member of SEMI, INEMI, TPCA, IPC, the OPC Foundation and DMDII. Its semiconductor data model connects equipment and data generated during manufacturing and test operations with analytics intended to enable profitable high-volume manufacturing.
Exhibits
The Exensio® Analytics Platform is designed for semiconductor foundries, IDMs, OSATs and fabless companies and draws on decades of work with more than 100 companies in the semiconductor ecosystem. Exensio connects and analyzes semiconductor data from manufacturing through test, assembly and in-field operations, providing data acquisition, normalization, semantic processing, big-data cloud management, AI/ML and data visualizations powered by Spotfire®. The platform is intended to reduce data-wrangling and integration work and help users find root causes of manufacturing or test problems that affect yield, quality or time-to-market. Exensio IDM is tailored to companies that manufacture, test, assemble and package their own products and includes Manufacturing Analytics, Control Operations, Test Operations and Assembly Operations. Exensio Fabless is designed for fabless semiconductor companies that depend on OSATs for test, assembly and packaging, and includes Manufacturing Analytics, Test Operations and Assembly Operations. For fabless customers, the platform supports outlier detection, escape prevention and adaptive-test flows intended to improve product quality and test efficiency. Exensio Foundry provides pure-play foundries with a single point of truth for manufacturing data, a visualization environment and the Manufacturing Analytics and Process Control modules. PDF Solutions states that its Process Control module manages more than 24,000 semiconductor manufacturing machines worldwide within foundries and supports equipment from leading semiconductor-equipment providers. Exensio OSAT is designed for outsourced semiconductor assembly and test companies and includes Process Control, Test Operations and Assembly Operations to provide visibility and transparency to fabless customers. The OSAT product also supports advanced edge analytics as fabless companies add edge intelligence to their supply chains. Additional offerings include Machine Learning for outcomes such as predicting Early Life Failures. Characterization Vehicles® are used to accelerate yield learning for advanced process nodes and derivative legacy nodes. Next-generation Design For InspectionTM solutions are intended to identify critical electrical manufacturing issues months before other methodologies. Together, these offerings connect smart-manufacturing equipment control, manufacturing and test data collection, AI/ML analytics, process control and yield-learning workflows across semiconductor manufacturing, test, assembly and field operations.
Capabilities and products
- semiconductor equipment connectivity and control
- manufacturing and test data collection
- semiconductor advanced analytics and machine learning
- semiconductor data acquisition and cloud AI/ML management
- semiconductor manufacturing analytics
- semiconductor process control
- semiconductor test-operations analytics
- semiconductor assembly-operations analytics
- machine-learning prediction of early life failures
- advanced-node yield learning with Characterization Vehicles®
- Design For InspectionTM electrical manufacturing issue detection