SAN JOSE, Calif., June 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PDF Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PDFS), the leading provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle, today introduced an innovative yield management solution called dataPOWER(r) VSF. The result of a strategic alliance with TIBCO Software Inc., dataPOWER(r) VSF is designed to provide a new, higher degree of intuitive and powerful yield analysis and visualization capabilities to the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries.
dataPOWER(r) VSF brings a striking degree of visual interactivity to the analysis of high volume, complex semiconductor data. This interactivity allows users to more rapidly gain insight into the outliers, trends and relationships that determine the performance, quality and speed-to-market of cutting edge semiconductor products. Questions of the data can be asked and answered in rapid visual strokes, using intuitive dynamic filtering, live aggregation, on-the-fly hierarchies, custom KPIs and visual drill-down.
dataPOWER(r) VSF is a highly-optimized query interface to PDF's dataPOWER database, custom-developed, semiconductor-specific visualizations and native Spotfire(r) visualizations that enable semiconductor customers to perform rapid-fire "what if" analysis of their manufacturing data. dataPOWER(r) VSF ships with pre-defined templates that will help users get started quickly. These can be extended, or new ones created instantly via "drag and drop" so that any data investigator, not just power users, can get to root cause quickly and confidently. dataPOWER(r) VSF has been designed to provide users unparalleled ease-of-use for interactive visual analysis of sort, test, bin, parametric, defect, metrology, wafer, lot and equipment history, plus process fault classification and other custom data classes in the dataPOWER(r) database.
"The most demanding technical experts in the semiconductor design and manufacturing world have a history of choosing PDF Solutions' products. With the release of dataPOWER(r) VSF, we now make it possible to extend a high degree of analytical power to a much broader audience of technical and managerial users," stated David Joseph, PDF Solutions' Chief Strategy Officer. "This concept of deploying highly application-specific capabilities on an easy-to-use, enterprise analytics platform is a first for the industry. We believe our customers will benefit greatly because, while select experts can be significantly more efficient, newly empowered casual users can exponentially increase the decision making power of the organization as a whole."
"We are pleased to have an industry leader such as PDF Solutions as a partner in high tech yield management," commented Rock Gnatovich, Chief Operating Officer of TIBCO Spotfire. "The dataPOWER(r) VSF release further validates our strategy to enable business partners to quickly develop and distribute specialized solutions built on our award-winning analytics platform. By leveraging Spotfire's innovative user experience and extending the platform with rich semiconductor capabilities, PDF Solutions will be able to help their customers accelerate yield insight and boost engineering productivity."
About PDF Solutions
PDF Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PDFS) is the leading provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle. PDF Solutions offers solutions that are designed to enable clients to lower costs of IC design and manufacture, enhance time to market, and improve profitability by addressing design and manufacturing interactions from product design to initial process ramps to mature manufacturing operations. PDF Solutions' Characterization Vehicle(r) (CV(r)) test chips provide the core modeling capabilities, and are used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. PDF Solutions' industry leading yield management system software, dataPOWER(r), and fault detection and classification software, maestria(r), enhance yield improvement and production control activities at leading fabs around the world. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. For the company's latest news and information, visit http://www.pdf.com/.
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About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq:TIBX) is a leading provider of enterprise analytics software for next generation business intelligence. TIBCO Spotfire products offer a visual and interactive experience that helps professionals quickly discover new and actionable insights in information. Distinguished by its speed to insight and adaptability to specific business challenges, Spotfire rapidly reveals unseen threats and new opportunities, creating significant economic value. Spotfire customers include industry leaders among the Global 2000 that have deployed Spotfire analytics to gain an information advantage over their competitors. For more information, visit http://spotfire.tibco.com.
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