Traditional “box-style” sorter designs rely on the labor and cost-intensive process of integrating multiple off-the-shelf components such as loadports, atmospheric robots, minienvironments and control software to create a highly complex wafer sorting machine. Inevitably, this leads to lower reliability, higher cost of ownership and sub-optimal performance.

Aware of these complexities and challenges, Asyst now offers chipmakers truly next generation, high-performance wafer handling with its Spartan™ Sorter. With its simple, unified design, Spartan Sorter delivers higher levels of cleanliness, enhanced wafer safety and lower cost of ownership (CoO).

Spartan Sorter advantages include:

• Simple design with proven technologies for greater productivity with improved reliability
  
• Integrated design enables quick start-ups for fast time-to-production
  
• Fast swap times with efficient transfer and alignment
  
• Better than ISO Class 1 performance

Asyst also offers chipmakers high-performance, reliable 200mm and 300mm wafer management with its Substrate Management System™(SMS). Reducing handling-induced defects and improving yields, the SMS has proven track records and is in wide use today by device manufacturers.

SMS advantages include:

• Randomization or wafer-to-slot position tracking
  
• Automated tracking of splits, merges, send-a-heads
  
• Wafer-level verification of material integrity (OCR, T7, BCR)
  

Learn More About Specific Products

• Spartan™ Sorter
• Substrate Management System™(SMS)