--- title: Factory System Infrastructure Support Necessary for a Full-scale EDA Deployment description: Factory System Infrastructure Support Necessary for a Full-scale EDA Deployment image: http://blog.cimetrix.com/hubfs/Blogs_Pics/EDA2Pict2.png --- [![Cimetrix-PDF-combined-logo](https://www.cimetrix.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logos/Cimetrix-PDF-combined-logo.png?width=361&height=100&name=Cimetrix-PDF-combined-logo.png "Cimetrix-PDF-combined-logo")](https://www.cimetrix.com) [English](https://www.cimetrix.com/) - [한국어](https://www.cimetrix.com/kr) - [日本語](https://www.cimetrix.com/jp) - [中文简体](https://www.cimetrix.com/cn) - [中文繁體](https://www.cimetrix.com/tw) - [ Products ** ](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/factory-system-infrastructure-support-necessary-for-a-full-scale-eda-deployment#) #### [Smart Connected Equipment](https://www.cimetrix.com/equipment) - ##### Connectivity - [CIM300](https://www.cimetrix.com/cim300) - [CIMConnect](https://www.cimetrix.com/cimconnect) - [CIMPortal Plus](https://www.cimetrix.com/cimportal) - ##### Control - [CIMControlFramework](https://www.cimetrix.com/cimcontrolframework) - #### [Smart Connected Factory](https://www.cimetrix.com/factory) - [Sapience](https://www.cimetrix.com/sapience) - #### [Utilities](https://www.cimetrix.com/utilities) - [ECCEPlus](https://www.cimetrix.com/ecce) - [EquipmentTest](https://www.cimetrix.com/equipmenttest) - [EDATester](https://www.cimetrix.com/edatester) ##### Schedule a Demo Today! 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Given the number of EDA pilot and production projects currently active across the industry, it’s likewise important to consider what kind of *Factory System Infrastructure* will be necessary to support a full-scale EDA deployment… so the purpose of this posting is to highlight this topic for the semiconductor manufacturing IT professionals who may face these challenges soon. ![Automation strategy framework](https://www.cimetrix.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs_Pics/EDA2Pict2.png?width=311&name=EDA2Pict2.png "Automation strategy framework")However, before diving into a detailed design process for an EDA factory system, you must decide what overall system architecture will govern that design. A number of factors go into this decision, including 1) the functional requirements that distinguish EDA-based data collection from other more traditional approaches, 2) technology constraints of the existing factory systems, 3) budget limitations, 4) schedule requirements, and especially 5) the non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, reliability, ease-of-use, etc.) that often make the difference between success and failure of a given system. Each of these factors deserves a thorough treatment of its own, but since we were invited to address this topic at a recent seminar sponsored by SEMI Taiwan, we’ve assembled an overview presentation entitled “[Factory Systems Architectures for EDA](https://info.cimetrix.com/factory_systems_architectures_for_eda)” that you can use as a starting point. It not only covers in more depth the requirements above which drive key architectural decisions, but also suggests what some of the major architectural components of a production system would need to be, based on the experience Cimetrix has gained working with the earliest adopters of EDA across the semiconductor device maker and equipment supplier communities. These include provisions for handling the scores of equipment metadata models that will exist in a production facility, for creating and managing the thousands of data collection plans that are resident at the equipment instances themselves, for monitoring and maintaining the overall performance of a system with such inherent flexibility, and for a number of other examples. Finally, the presentation describes some high-level examples of architectural “styles” that have been implemented in the industry thus far.   We sincerely hope you will download this presentation and its companion “[The Power of E164: EDA Common Metadata](https://info.cimetrix.com/the_power_e164_eda_common_metadata)” that was also presented at the SEMI Taiwan event, and [contact us](https://info.cimetrix.com/general-contact-us-form) when you want to know more about any of these topics.♦ Topics: [Industry Highlights](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/topic/industry-highlights), [EDA/Interface A](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/topic/eda-interface-a), [Doing Business with Cimetrix](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/topic/doing-business-with-cimetrix), [Data Collection/Management](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/topic/data-collection-management) Posted by [Alan Weber: Vice President, New Product Innovations](https://www.cimetrix.com/blog/author/alan-weber-vice-president-new-product-innovations) on Nov 24, 2015 12:30:00 PM ![](https://www.cimetrix.com/hubfs/Alan%20Head%20Shot%202.jpg) Find me on: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-weber-16611b) ### Subscribe to Blog Updates ### Follow Me ### Recent Posts ### Posts by Topic - 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