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Syntricity Helps Semiconductor Manufacturers Manage Data and Improve Profitability With Industry's First Enterprise Yield Management System

Posted on: Friday, 16 September 2005, 09:00 CDT

First enterprise platform to integrate data collection, analysis and production monitoring; Broadens access from engineer to manager to executive

Syntricity Inc. today announced the availability of the first Enterprise Yield Management (EYM) system for semiconductor manufacturers. EYM allows semiconductor manufacturers with global supply chains to access engineering data and work collaboratively. Syntricity's EYM system goes beyond current departmental yield management tools to allow dispersed manufacturing systems and business management functions to quickly respond to production yield data, thereby increasing profitability.

Increasingly complex products require semiconductor manufacturers to analyze massive amounts of engineering data. To address this, yield management systems must evolve into engineering information systems, interacting with peer enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial reporting systems. True EYM systems, such as Syntricity's, support all phases of the semiconductor product life cycle -- characterization, yield ramp and production monitoring -- from a single, integrated data warehouse, and provide easy analysis of the terabytes of engineering information gathered from diverse manufacturing operations.

"Employing our newly announced dataConductorEP 5.0 software, Syntricity's EYM system is able to load gigabytes of data from global supply chains each day and make the information available via the Web to executives, managers and engineers anywhere in the company around the world," said Marc Friedmann, CEO of Syntricity. "With partners such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems and EMC supporting our solution, Syntricity's EYM system becomes the information system backbone for a highly productive engineering organization, enhancing profitability and competitiveness."

"As semiconductor manufacturing moves into the sub-100 nanometer range, managing the complex interactions among hundreds of different tools with thousands of different parameters requires comprehensive software systems developed specifically for semiconductor manufacturing," said Bob Johnson, vice president at technology research firm Gartner Dataquest.

Built on an integrated Oracle database and using Web-native technology, Syntricity's EYM system provides a bridge for engineering, operations and IT, facilitating cross-operational functionality and serving as a proactive yield management solution across the entire product life cycle. Its easy-to-use, automated analysis flows simplify the yield management process, enabling faster time to market, yield improvements and enhanced supply chain visibility.

"Semiconductor manufacturers need timely and accurate information to make critical business decisions that affect profits and competitiveness," said Ron Huddleston, senior director of ISV Channels for Oracle Corporation. "We encourage the development of new applications for responsive engineering data warehouses. Oracle is pleased to be a foundational piece of Syntricity's solution for this important vertical market."

Elements of Syntricity's yield management (EYM) system include:

-- On-demand access to yield information from diverse facilities, processes and equipment

-- Clear and concise analysis flows that enable effective decision-making

-- Centralized data warehouse with data mining capabilities and powerful statistical analytics

-- Thorough and accurate root cause analysis

-- Full supply chain visibility

-- Integration of engineering and operational systems into a single view of the problem

"Using dataConductorEP, we have seen a tremendous difference in the ease and speed at which we can access data, drill down for answers to our questions and analyze the data. This gives us the ability to implement a company-wide response to dealing with product yield issues," said Kevin Boyle, director of operations for Microsemi Corporation. "Yield information is more accurate, immediately available and visible throughout our organization."

Syntricity's EYM platform includes a robust ad hoc characterization tool and the Advanced Monitoring for Production (AMP(TM)) applications. Using AMP, executives can access summary report cards to monitor production yields of all products and drill down into specific wafer acceptance test (WAT), wafer sort and final test information. At the same time, AMP enables engineers to identify problem areas in production-released product and easily navigate to device characterization analysis tools for detailed root cause analysis.

"For more than two decades, Sun has been the vendor of choice for semiconductor engineering design automation (EDA) solutions. Sun Fire SPARC based servers continue to form the foundation for compute intensive Web-based systems," said Fred Kohout, vice president of marketing for Sun's Scalable Systems Group.

About Syntricity, Inc.

Syntricity is the pioneer in enterprise yield management. Its yield management software is used by leading semiconductor companies, test vendors and wafer foundries to gather, manage and analyze data from facilities around the world to improve yield, reduce product development cycles, and increase profits. A privately-held company, Syntricity is headquartered in San Diego, California.

For more information, contact Syntricity, Inc., 6020 Cornerstone Court West, San Diego, California 92121; Tel: 858-552-4485; Fax: 858-552-4493. Or visit http://www.syntricity.com.

Source: Business Wire

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