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SEMICONDUCTOR

SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS 
FROM PROTOTYPE TO PRODUCTION

From engineering to solutions and series production

SUPPORTING STARTUPS AND LEADING OEMS FROM PROTOTYPE TO PRODUCTION

  • FROM IDEA TO PRODUCTION

    Focus on your core technology. We build the system that brings it to life. From precision stages and advanced control software to complete systems that scale from the lab to production.

  • SPECIALIZED MODULES

    Developing and integrating high-precision modules within complex architectures, often for leading OEM’s.


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Trusted by over half of leading semiconductor businesses

KEY ADVANTAGES

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Inspection of systems and modules

Sioux develops and manufactures state-of-the-art inspection systems serving semicon equipment, and has experience in particle scanning, hyperspectral and holographic imaging, electron optics, cartridge SEM and anomaly detection with AI.
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Prototyping

Realizing prototypes quickly, properly and cost-effectively requires a close interplay of mechatronic and software engineering. Sioux has all those building blocks and moreover has an impressive track record in this area.
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Datamanagement

Where, among other things, the demand for cost reduction and increasing yield in the production chain of chips is growing, generating, processing and analyzing data with AI and optimizing processes is essential. Sioux is a specialist in this field and creates optimized, robust and predictable processes.
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Extreme process conditions

Sioux has enormous expertise in shaping production and processes under extreme conditions, for example with respect to high voltages and temperatures, cryogenics and vacuum. We offer smart solutions for high performance equipment.
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SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

Key expertise is using software..

SOLUTIONS

EXPERTISE

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Designing intuitive interaction for complex high-tech systems. We translate complex system behavior into clear, efficient workflows for operators and engineers. By combining system understanding with user-centered design, we improve usability, efficiency and overall system performance. Workflow optimization High-tech UX design Front-end development Information visualization
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Designing intuitive interaction for complex high-tech systems. We translate complex system behavior into clear, efficient workflows for operators and engineers. By combining system understanding with user-centered design, we improve usability, efficiency and overall system performance. Workflow optimization High-tech UX design Front-end development Information visualization
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Designing intuitive interaction for complex high-tech systems. We translate complex system behavior into clear, efficient workflows for operators and engineers. By combining system understanding with user-centered design, we improve usability, efficiency and overall system performance. Workflow optimization High-tech UX design Front-end development Information visualization
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Designing intuitive interaction for complex high-tech systems. We translate complex system behavior into clear, efficient workflows for operators and engineers. By combining system understanding with user-centered design, we improve usability, efficiency and overall system performance. Workflow optimization High-tech UX design Front-end development Information visualization
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Designing intuitive interaction for complex high-tech systems. We translate complex system behavior into clear, efficient workflows for operators and engineers. By combining system understanding with user-centered design, we improve usability, efficiency and overall system performance. Workflow optimization High-tech UX design Front-end development Information visualization

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Projects

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Moore Accuracy

The customer's challenge In machines that produce micro-electronic wafers (which are a component of semiconductor materials such as integrated circuits, transistors and diodes), internal temperatures increase considerably during the production process. This leads to a decrease in product quality. A complex and lengthy journey to adapt the hardware would potentially have led to a solution, but Sioux approached the issue from a different perspective. Sioux's contribution With our knowledge of mathematics and multiphysics, Sioux created insight into the dynamic thermal effects. Based on this insight, Sioux developed a model that calculates how the machine should be fine-tuned within 12 milliseconds. This way, deviations in products as a result of temperature increases in the machine during production are continually corrected. Result Thanks to this method, the wafer machine’s accuracy rate is now twice as high, and its throughput speed was increased as well. The results were so positive that the client applied for a patent for this Mathware. Technology Multi-physics, Thermal dynamics, Approximation theory, Modal analysis, Non-linear optimization, Scientific computing. Mathware technologies: Comsol, Ansys, Python, openFOAM, ICEM CFB.
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Laser-Induced Subsurface separation

The customer’s challenge Subject to tremendous market pressure, ASM PT needed to engineer its disruptive technology prototype towards commercial release: a fully automated 12” wafer dicer with extremely high position and grooving/dicing accuracy (< ± 1µm) in a small footprint. Sioux was asked to help develop the Advanced Laser-Induced Subsurface Separation (ALISS) in collaboration with VDL ETG. Sioux’s contribution Sioux acted as the main contractor. Mechanics, mechatronics, optics, electronics and software design were performed in-house. Five new mechatronic modules were added to the prototype 12’ control software (Thor). Changes were made in all layers of the Thor architecture (the I/O layer, the System layer and the Control/Application layer): wafer height mapping, recipe parsing and dicing trajectory calculation, contour mapping, wafer alignment using on- and off-axis cameras and laser control application. Result With this new machine, ASM PT is able to offer laser dicing and grooving systems that ensure the lowest possible cost of ownership due to the shortest possible process time (keeping up cutting speeds of up to 500mm/s) and offer high flexibility. Technology Computer Vision, Sensor processing, C++, VCL, Python, TCP/IP, Machine dynamics and planar XY stage.
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Litography for advanced packaging

The customer's challenge Lithography for advanced packaging is different from lithography for front-end wafer processing. The requirements involved are special and varying. The resist films range from thin to thick. Kulicke & Soffa developed the Liteq 500, a wafer stepper that is flexible and can effectively deal with all these variations and specific needs. Sioux's contribution Sioux designed, implemented, and tested the complete software stack for the Liteq 500, including: the user interface the control software for all devices, including the stage, the CCD camera, the illuminator, the beam stabilizer, the aerial image sensor, and the reticle robot the business logic for processing cells on a wafer, exchanging and aligning wafers, handling reticles, and executing metrology measurements with the projection lens and the CCD camera the mathematical algorithms for the metrology formal verification of the control software using ASD the firmware for Metrology Unit and the Illuminator Control Unit Result The first stepper is operational, commercial machines are now being sold. Technology Windows 8, Microsoft .NET 4.5, WCF, C#, 64 bit, ASD, ESP, STM32 and C++.

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