Exposure apparatus, system, updating method, and device manufacturing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinichiro KOGA
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Abstract
An exposure apparatus comprises a first interface connected to a communication network to which a control apparatus for performing a control operation of the exposure apparatus is connected, a second interface connected, not via the communication network, to an information processing apparatus which updates a software installed on the exposure apparatus, and a controller configured to control the first interface and the second interface so that communication of the first interface with the communication network is disabled, and thereupon communication of the second interface with the information processing apparatus is enabled to enable the information processing apparatus to update the software.
Claims5
An exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate to radiant energy, the apparatus comprising:
- a first interface connected to a communication network to which a control apparatus for performing a control operation of the exposure apparatus is connected;
- a second interface connected, not via the communication network, to an information processing apparatus which updates a software installed on the exposure apparatus;
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- a controller configured to control the first interface and the second interface so that communication of the first interface with the communication network is disabled, and thereupon communication of the second interface with the information processing apparatus is enabled to enable the information processing apparatus to update the software.
A system including an exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate to radiant energy, and an information processing apparatus which updates a software installed on the exposure apparatus,
- the exposure apparatus comprising:
- a first interface connected to a communication network to which a control apparatus for performing a control operation of the exposure apparatus is connected;
- a second interface connected, not via the communication network, to the information processing apparatus;
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- a controller configured to control the first interface and the second interface so that communication of the first interface with the communication network is disabled, and thereupon communication of the second interface with the information processing apparatus is enabled to enable the information processing apparatus to update the software.
A method of updating a software, installed on an exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate to radiant energy, the method comprising:
- the exposure apparatus switching states thereof so that communication with a communication network, to which a control apparatus for performing a control operation of the exposure apparatus is connected, is disabled, in response to a request from an information processing apparatus, and thereupon communication with the information processing apparatus is enabled;
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- the information processing apparatus updating the software after the switching is performed.
A method of manufacturing a device, the method comprising:
- exposing a substrate to radiant energy using an exposure apparatus;
- developing the exposed substrate;
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- processing the developed substrate to manufacture the device,
- wherein the exposure apparatus comprises:
- a first interface connected to a communication network to which a control apparatus for performing a control operation of the exposure apparatus is connected;
- a second interface connected, not via the communication network, to an information processing apparatus which updates a software installed on the exposure apparatus;
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- a controller configured to control the first interface and the second interface so that communication of the first interface with the communication network is disabled, and thereupon communication of the second interface with the information processing apparatus is enabled to enable the information processing apparatus to update the software.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.