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Ballot for Automated Test Equipment Tester Event Messaging Out for Voting

By Michelle Sun, SEMI

FEBRUARY 2021 UPDATE: Standard for Automated Test Equipment Tester Event Being Published 

While Ballot 6581, New Subordinate Standard: Specification for HTTP JSON Protocol Implementation for the Automated Test Equipment Tester Event Messaging for Semiconductors (TEMS), failed, Ballot 6580A, New Standard: Specification for the Automated Test Equipment Tester Event Messaging for Semiconductors (TEMS), was approved with technical changes at the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) TC Chapter Meeting in November 2020. A Ratification Ballot was issued for 6580A to incorporate these changes, which recently passed Procedural Review and is currently being processed for publication.

Document 6581 was modified per the Committee’s feedback and is out for balloting again. Vote on Ballot 6581A today! Visit https://www.semi.org/en/products-services/standards/ballots and select Ballot Period "02-2021" and Ballot Committee "Automated Test Equipment".

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Growing demand for real-time data analysis of product quality and test yield is fueling the popularity of an evolving class of services used for both overall equipment efficiency and yield operations. Many of these server-client based services use a diverse range of data formats, specifications, and interface requirements. As such, they require unique data implementation per Automated Test Equipment (ATE) vendor and application tool. Solutions to enable compatibility between tools and test equipment incur significant service and application engineering costs for ATE vendors, OSAT companies, and software providers.

In response to this challenge, the Tester Event Messaging for Semiconductors (TEMS) Task Force has drafted two documents, 6580A and 6581. Ballot 6580A, New Standard: Specification for the Automated Test Equipment Tester Event Messaging for Semiconductors (TEMS), describes a method for communicating test cell data to different services. Ballot 6581, New Subordinate Standard: Specification for HTTP JSON Protocol Implementation for the Automated Test Equipment Tester Event Messaging for Semiconductors (TEMS), intends to create a Subordinate Standard which expands upon 6580A’s implementation method for HTTP JSON Protocols. The overall goal of these documents is to provide a vendor-neutral way to collect test cell data as well as data on operating conditions.

6580A and 6581 went out for balloting in October and were adjudicated during the ATE North America TC Chapter Meeting on November 16. While the ballot for 6581 was failed and returned to the Task Force, the ballot for 6580A was approved with technical changes and a Ratification Ballot is currently out for voting in Cycle 9-2020. Vote today!


Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test (CAST)

The TEMS Working Group originated in CAST and was transitioned to SEMI Standards in 2019. The goal of CAST is to develop, coordinate, and direct all SEMI services for the semiconductor test community.


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December 3, 2020