PDF Exensio Yield ?Hi,
Has anyone had experience on using PDF's Exensio-Yield software in the Semiconductor Industry?
We have a customer that need some help in understanding Exensio and JMP.
Any inputs/comments would be helpful !
Re: PDF Exensio Yield ?Exensio offers floating licenses which are renewed annually.
It has customizations based on if you are an IDM (ex. Intel), Foundry (ex. TSMC), Fabless (ex. Nvidia), or OSAT (ex. ASE).
https://www.pdf.com/products/exensio-analytics-platform/overview/
Re: PDF Exensio Yield ?Hello, thank you for your valuable inputs!!
Do you know whether they also offering a yearly license? Is this platform a standard software or requesting customized implementation?
Thanks!
Candice Gao
Senior Associate Inside Sales China
Re: PDF Exensio Yield ?Thank you very much for the valuable inputs. Much appreciated!Re: PDF Exensio Yield ?I've worked at PDF Solutions in a former life and have used DataPower extensively both internally at PDF and as a customer at Microsoft and On Semiconductor. Exensio (formerly DataPower) is substantially more expensive than JMP (~10-50x depending on number of licenses), but with less functionality. PDF does support a floating license model which is probably why their per license cost is higher. As Ian mentioned, they provide very industry specific analysis techniques that are important to yield/device/product/process engineers at a semiconductor company.
Having said that, I preferred to use JMP over DataPower for my semiconductor data analysis. JMP is much more versatile, and can do 90% of what Exensio (aka Expensio) does without scripting and the other 10% can be covered by scripting.
If you want to have a more in depth discussion, I'd be happy to consult with you.
Re: PDF Exensio Yield ?I have a little commentary, but sadly no recent direct experience.
PDF Solutions have a set of products that cover the semiconductor lifecycle, but focusing mostly on design, characterisation and test. Exensio Yield as the name implies is mostly about manufacturing yield, and is apparently a new name for a very old suite formerly known as DataPower. This was originally developed by Philips Semiconductors, and then commercialised. The engineers who had to use it always regarded it as clunky - Maybe OK for routine reporting but not good for ad-hoc data analysis and problem solving due to an over-reliance on a limited, inflexible data model implemented in old database technology. I don't think it's had significant development (but I didn't check the new product briefs in detail). The analysis it provided was always simple and limited, but industry specific.
You could do much better with a custom solution based on JMP, but when having discussions about this you need to be extremely diligent in understanding what, for want of a better phrase, I'll call their data infrastructure.
