Electroglas Subsidiary Awarded 1997 Editors' Choice Best Product from Semiconductor International.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1997 Knights Technology's YieldManager one of 20 products selected Electroglas, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :EGLS EGLS Eastside German Language School (Issaquah, WA) ), a market-leading supplier of expert wafer probing, information management and software-based manufacturing and yield enhancement products to the global semiconductor industry, today announced that Semiconductor International magazine has selected Knights Technology's YieldManager(R) for a 1997 Editors' Choice Best Product Award. YieldManager was recognized as one of 20 products significantly enhancing semiconductor manufacturing. Candidates for the award must be nominated by customers who are successfully using the product in their facilities. It was also required that the product be proven to enhance the results of semiconductor or related manufacturing. The editors of Semiconductor International then voted on the nominees. Twenty winners were presented with the award at a ceremony in Austin, Texas the Monday during the week of SEMICON SEMICON Semiconductors Equipment and Material International Conference Southwest. YieldManager is a customized, instrument-independent software solution that allows fab engineers to collect, analyze and graphically display essential process, inspection and test data to help identify the sources of semiconductor yield loss. The YieldManager system is the only independent software tool designed to interface with equipment to collect data from the entire process flow-design, wafer process, inspection, metrology, parametric and electrical test. "We are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that our customers and the editors of Semiconductor International recognize YieldManager as a premier yield management tool," said Thomas Sherby, Knights' president. "We take great pride in our products' ability to help keep our customers connected throughout the fab and among their separate manufacturing facilities." The YieldManager tool is an open-architecture, client/server system using the TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. protocol and EtherNet connections to enable interconnectivity and enterprise-wide commuting. The software solution's open architecture provides simple connectivity between various fab equipment and worldwide sharing of yield data among a manufacturer's various wafer fabs. Knights' YieldManager system brings together critical data to help determine which process zones or tools are most significantly contributing to yield loss. It provides a common location and format for presenting this data and doing cross-correlations between data types. YieldManager links to Knights' Megalab(R) and Merlin's Framework(TM) software for defect review. SPaR (Spatial Pattern Recognition), a recent addition to the Knights product line, can also be used with YieldManager to effectively group defects into signatures that can be classified into process events. Additionally, the recently announced Q-YIELD(TM) product adds unparalleled data mining capabilities to Knights' yield enhancement software. About Knights: Knights Technology offers software solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, including yield enhancement, CAD navigation CAD Navigation refers to software tools which are used for the correlation of electronic semiconductor design data with a physical semiconductor device. CAD Navigation tools consist of software that is capable of reading and displaying the physical layout and logical schematic for and failure analysis. Leveraging its industry experience with Merlin's Framework(TM) -- the recognized industry standard in CAD navigation for IC design, failure analysis, defect review and prototype debugging -- Knights has become an industry leader in yield enhancement solutions for IC manufacturing. Its YieldManager(R) yield enhancement software integrates data from process, inspection, test and metrology equipment and provides sophisticated, graphical analysis tools to convert the data into useful information for yield-related decision making. YieldManager software has been purchased by top fabs worldwide. Knights' homepage on the World Wide Web is located at http://www.knights.com About Electroglas: Founded in 1960, Electroglas, Inc. is a world-leading supplier of the expert wafer-probing products and information management products that semiconductor manufacturers rely on to sort and classify integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. . The company's products position semiconductor devices that are still in wafer form under contact probes to facilitate accurate, rapid, reliable testing, and manage information collected during the testing process. In May 1997, Electroglas acquired Knights Technology Inc. Knights Technology is now a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Electroglas. Electroglas' common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the trading symbol Trading symbol See: Ticker symbol EGLS. Electroglas' home page on the World Wide Web is located at http://www.electroglas.com -0- Note to Editors: Q-YIELD is a registered trademark of Quadrillion One thousand times one trillion, which is 1, followed by 15 zeros, or 10 to the 15th power. See space/time. Corp. CONTACT: Electroglas Inc. Maria Apodaca or Yolanda Ruiz, 408/727-6500 or MCA MCA in full Music Corporation of America Entertainment conglomerate. It was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein as a talent agency. In the 1960s it bought Decca Records and Universal Pictures, and today it produces films, music, and television shows. Inc. Vincent Mayeda, 650/968-8900 |
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