NDE Mask Manufacturable Suite
for Mask Data
NDE Mask Manufacturable Suite is a software which offers applications required by mask data preparation.
Total solution for mask data preparation (MDP)
NDE (NCS Distributed Environment) is a distributed processing software running on a conventional Linux PC-cluster. Its advanced technology realizes more flexible and scalable distributed processing.
On the NDE platform, NDE Mask Manufacturable Suite (NDE-MS) is a software which offers applications required by mask data preparation (MDP) covering post-OPC through pre-mask writing.
NDE-MS application
Various applications are available on NDE-MS.
Features of NDE
1. All processing distributed
In NDE-MS, all processing is distributed to multiple nodes. Moreover, some applications support pipeline processing which allows the import and export processes to run in parallel.
2. Outstanding scalability
NDE-MS’s advanced distributed processing technology realizes outstanding scalability by increasing CPU cores. Tens of thousands of cores are also supported.
3. Various input and output data formats
NDE-MS supports various input and output data formats.
4. Measurement recipe support
NDE-MS supports recipe creation for CD-SEM and Registration tools.
5. Task management
User submitted task is managed in units called session. NDE-MS’s flexible task management can run multiple sessions simultaneously. Moreover, while sessions are running, they can be suspended or their priority can be changed.
6. Version management
NDE-MS can switch between multiple versions anytime. For example, a version for production can be set as default, but other versions can be specified when submitting sessions.
7. License management
NDE-MS has its own license management so that it does not require a third party license management system. One license daemon can manage multiple NDE systems, and a secure network environment that limits use to only a specific port can also be set up. Alternatively, NDE-MS also supports FlexLM® as a third-party license management system.
8. Usage statistics collection
NDE-MS can collect license usage information and gather data for billing purposes.
Furthermore, NDE-MS can integrate with Prometheus, Grafana, and VictoriaMetrics to aggregate and analyze metrics such as session counts, operational status, downtime, and availability rates.
9. NDE-SDK
As an optional feature, an API which accesses NDE database (intermediate file) can be provided as an SDK package. Users can implement their own distributed processing application on NDE.
10. Plenty of utility programs
Plenty of utility programs are available such as data analysis tools for each data format.