Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. announces the release of its new product suite, AdventaEDA

April 18, 2007, Plano, TX: Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. proudly announces the release of its latest addition to the Adventa equipment integration product suite, AdventaEDA. AdventaEDA enables you to talk to the equipment that supports the SEMI Interface A standards for data collection (commonly known as Equipment Data Acquisition) and easily pull them into your automation framework.

Interface A standards (E120, E125, E132, and E134) allow diverse client applications to request and receive equipment data. Because Interface A equipment can simultaneously handle any number of clients asking for different data (events, traces, exceptions), you no longer need a "splitter" to distribute different sets of data to different automation clients or a "mediator" to prevent clients from disabling each other’s requests. AdventaEDA serves as the vehicle for transporting equipment data to diverse client applications, enabling your automation, fault detection, and data collection clients to request and retrieve exactly the data they need.

AdventaEDA includes EDATester, which invokes web services on the equipment and displays the results on an easy-to-read user interface. EDATester also includes a graphical data collection plan editor that uses the equipment self-description to display the available events, exceptions, and variables. AdventaEDA supports all current Interface A standards and integrates seamlessly with Adventa’s AutoShell, a premier automation framework that works behind the scenes to shield automation developers from the details of the communication protocols.

With AdventaEDA as the intermediary, your automation systems don't have to run and provide web services: the AdventaEDA server can support any number of clients, talk to any number of equipment, and talk the clients' own diverse languages. “We’re encouraged by the enthusiasm with which our customers have greeted this new product. AdventaEDA will make the job of automating Interface A equipment easier,” said Richard Beaver, Director of System Integration and Control Systems.

Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. provides control and productivity software to semiconductor OEM's and semiconductor manufacturing facilities. Adventa software is currently in use in virtually all of the top ten semiconductor factories worldwide. Adventa Control Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas and is an affiliate of The Gores Group. To learn more about AdventaEDA and the Interface A collection of SEMI standards, visit the AdventaEDA page on our website, email us or call at (972) 543-1753.