The concept for the tool's mechanical platform: frame and layout, process chambers or modules, vacuum system, wafer handling, footprint and serviceability.
Architecture Work product in the Semiconductor equipment lifecycle
It fixes the physical shape of the tool before detailed design. Subsystems designed into a space that does not exist, a footprint larger than fabs will accept and service access designed out by accident are what happens when it is late.
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