PDF Solutions

PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDFS) is a provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle. PDF Solutions offers solutions that are designed to enable clients to lower costs of IC design and manufacture, enhance time to market, and improve profitability by addressing design and manufacturing interactions from product design to initial process ramps to mature manufacturing operations. PDF Solutions' Characterization Vehicle® (CV®) test chips provide the core modeling capabilities, and are used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. PDF Solutions' industry leading yield management system software, dataPOWER®, and fault detection and classification software, mæstria®, enhance yield improvement and production control activities at leading fabs around the world. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in China, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For the company's latest news and information

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Kinesys Software

Acquisition in 2017
KINESYS Software is a small, independent software company, founded in 1992 in The Netherlands and providing software products and services for specialized technical automation applications in the semiconductor industry. In the market, KINESYS Software is widely known and has a strong reputation. Our customers include many of the familiar world-leading manufacturers of semiconductors and related products, located in all major production areas (South-East Asia, Japan, North America, Europe), as well as companies that manufacture production equipment for semiconductor manufacturing.

Syntricity

Acquisition in 2015
Syntricity, Inc. develops enterprise yield management software solutions for semiconductor companies, test vendors, and wafer foundries. It offers dataConductor, a hosted semiconductor enterprise yield management solution that collects data from diverse manufacturing systems and combines them into a single warehouse to support various phases of the semiconductor product life cycle. The company also provides consulting services, such as implementing best practices, yield analysis, product characterization setup, defining data collection strategy, automation planning, parsers and translators development, business practices assessment and establishment, methodologies establishment, implementation planning, systems analysis, integrations and connectivity requirements, and project and program management services. In addition, it offers implementation services, including system deployment, data integration from multiple suppliers, multi-departmental requirements assessment, parser design, MES data integration, and semiconductor data analysis solutions; and product support services, such as critical problem alerts, access to updates and upgrades, maintenance service packs and patches, telephone support, and on-site services. Syntricity, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in San Diego, California.

Fabbrix

Acquisition in 2007
Fabbrix, Inc. is a provider of design solutions based on a regular-structures implementation of nanoscale process technologies. Fabbrix offers a combination of physical building blocks, implementation and analysis tools, and design methodologies that enable an IC design style.

Si Automation

Acquisition in 2006
Si Automation S.A. (SIA), a privately held Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) software and services provider, based in Montpellier, France. It develops factory automation, equipment interface, and process control software solutions for semiconductor manufacturing and related industries.

IDS Software Systems

Acquisition in 2003
IDS Software Systems, based in Foster City, Calif., is a privately held corporation founded in 1991. IDS dataPOWER provides to enterprises the most comprehensive, platform-independent semiconductor yield management system (YMS) and engineering data analysis software tools in the industry. IDS tools help engineers maximize yields and speed time-to-market for advanced semiconductor devices.
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