Semiconductor tool matching and manufacturing management in a blockchain
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPrasad Bhosale, Nicholas A. Lanzillo, Michael Rizzolo, Chih-Chao Yang
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Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of identifying a current tool configuration used by a tool device to construct semiconductor devices, retrieving a smart contract stored in a blockchain to identify whether an updated tool configuration exists, responsive to identifying the updated tool configuration, transmitting an update that includes the updated tool configuration to the tool device, and responsive to receiving the updated tool configuration at the tool device, initiating construction of the semiconductor devices.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- identifying a current tool configuration used by a tool device to construct semiconductor devices;
- retrieving a smart contract stored in a blockchain to identify whether an updated tool configuration exists;
- responsive to identifying the updated tool configuration, transmitting an update comprising the updated tool configuration to the tool device;
- and
- responsive to receiving the updated tool configuration at the tool device, initiating construction of the semiconductor devices.
A system, comprising:
- a tool device;
- a computing node configured to
- identify a current tool configuration used by the tool device to construct semiconductor devices;
- retrieve a smart contract stored in a blockchain to identify whether an updated tool configuration exists;
- responsive to the identification of an updated tool configuration, transmit an update comprising the updated tool configuration to the tool device;
- and
- responsive to the updated tool configuration being received at the tool device, initiate construction of the semiconductor devices at the tool device.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform:
- identifying a current tool configuration used by a tool device to construct semiconductor devices;
- retrieving a smart contract stored in a blockchain to identify whether an updated tool configuration exists;
- responsive to identifying the updated tool configuration, transmitting an update comprising the updated tool configuration to the tool device;
- and
- responsive to receiving the updated tool configuration at the tool device, initiating construction of the semiconductor devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.