X-PORT SECS GEM DRIVER
X-PORT is a SECS/GEM software driver that can be configured to add full SECS/GEM capabilities to an equipment. It is designed to run quietly in the background while maintaining full SECS logging for the purposes of traceability. X-PORT’s behaviour is controlled by XML-based configuration files through the selection of specific SECS/GEM functionalities to be implemented, definition of associated variables, alarms, terminals and parameters, linking of variables to reports and linking of reports to events. Deploying the configured GEM-compliant equipment is then simply a matter of feeding appropriate data into the variables defined in X-PORT (via API calls provided in the .NET GEM control) for communication with the host computer.
Product Features
Benefits
- Advanced Technologies ( .NET & XML )
- Support SECS-I & HSMS Protocol
- Always Fundamentally GEM Compliant
- Built-in Additional GEM Capabilities
- Configurable SECS / GEM Variables
- Programmable SECS Messages
- Tight Integration via .NET Control
- Superb SECS Messaging Throughput
- Full SECS Logging and Traceability
Product Specification
- Windows XP Professional with .NET 2.0 ; 512MB RAM (minimum)
- Windows 7 Professional ; 2GB RAM (minimum)
- Windows 8 & 10 Professional (32 & 64 bit) with .NET 3.5 ; 4GB RAM (minimum)
X-CHANGE adheres to specifications for data-items and communication-protocol-parameters in the following standards:
- SEMI E4 : SEMI Equipment Communications Standards 1 Message Transfer (SECS-I)
- SEMI E37.1 : High-speed SECS Message Service Single Selected-Session Mode (HSMS-SS)
- SEMI E5 : SEMI Equipment Communications Standards 2 Message Content (SECS-II)
- SEMI E30 : Generic Model for Communications and Control of Manufacturing Equipment (GEM)
- SECS-I or HSMS communication protocol
- Fundamental GEM scenarios
- Status Variables (SV) ; Equipment Constants (EC) ; Discrete Variable Values (DVVAL)
- Collection Events ; Reports
- Alarms ; Spooling ; Terminal Services ; Trace Management
- Process Program Management ; Remote Control (Remote Commands)
- Limit Monitoring (with some additional programming)
- Non-GEM Stream Functions
- Programming of a .NET user application (on the same PC that X-PORT is installed)
- Handling of SECS Messages for .NET Callback Event (covering Communication/Control Statuses) & Terminal Messages & Remote Commands from Host
- Feeding of equipment data to X-PORT via API calls such as SetSV(), SetEC() and SetDV()
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