Metrology Software

The challenge

How do you meet the increasingly stringent application requirements in the roadmap of your semiconductor or complex laboratory equipment? High-speed positioning at the nanometer scale or visualizing atomic structures place extremely high demands on the sensors and actuators of devices, particularly in terms of data processing between these systems.

Complex system calibrations, based on physical models and the integration of real physical sensor data, are often necessary for high-tech products to reach the limits of system specifications.

The solution

Metrology Software provides intelligent and effective software components for data acquisition, diagnosis, and optimization, as well as powerful software tools for data management and reporting. It delivers models, determines essential parameters for the setpoints of all relevant subsystems, and verifies and diagnoses many aspects of system behavior. Metrology Software enables the manufacturing, maintenance, and monitoring of systems through measurement and measurement analysis, aiming to meet the expected performance properties of the system.

To achieve this, Sioux has developed the ADACA architecture: acquisition of measurements and sensor readings, long- and short-term data storage, algorithms and computations on the data, control of component behavior and execution logic, and actuation of motors for movement or other physical quantities.

We have experience in various applications, including lithography and e-beam data processing for wafer production and inspections, in both front-end and back-end semiconductor applications. Additionally, we have expertise in complex calibrations of electron microscopes and advanced digital imaging applications in medical devices and pharmaceutical applications, such as digital pathology systems.

Services

Sioux supports clients with a systems approach to (high-speed) data acquisition and processing in metrology software systems. We conduct feasibility studies, design, develop, integrate, and maintain these systems.