Patent ID: 7082346
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: C23C,H01L

Abstract:
1. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus comprising: a processing apparatus main body which continuously executes a plurality of processes related to manufacturing of a semiconductor device in a single chamber; means to determine in real time internal process information for each of the plurality of processes by measuring at least one of a pressure, temperature, mass flow, voltage, current, and plasma charge of the processing apparatus main body, an apparatus controller unit which selects a type of process in the processing apparatus main body to be performed on the semiconductor device being processed within the processing apparatus main body and supplies to the processing apparatus main body a start signal to start a process and a stop signal to stop the process; and a process controller unit, coupled to receive the start signal and the internal process information, to periodically calculate in real time a physical characteristic of the semiconductor device being processed for each of said plurality of processes on the basis of the internal process information of the processing apparatus main body, wherein the process controller unit starts calculating for the current process the physical characteristic of the semiconductor device being processed at a timing when the start signal is sent from the apparatus controller unit, and sends the stop signal to the apparatus controller unit when a currently calculated value of the physical characteristic of the semiconductor device being processed reaches a predetermined value, wherein the apparatus controller unit sends the stop signal to the processing apparatus main body upon receiving the stop signal from the process controller unit, stops the current process by the processing apparatus main body, and switches to a next process.