The specification of how the tool communicates with the factory host: supported standards, messages, events, alarms, data variables, recipes and control states.
Specification Work product in the Semiconductor equipment lifecycle
It defines what the factory can see and control on the tool. Software that implements only part of the interface leaves customers discovering gaps during integration, without the data needed for process control and matching.
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