#SECS/GEM protocol

[einnosyssecsgem]

SECS/GEM on JEOL JWS-7515 Metrology Equipment: Enhancing Efficiency with EIGEMBox

In the fast-paced world of semiconductor manufacturing, precision and efficiency are paramount. One key aspect of this process is the metrology equipment used to ensure that every component meets stringent quality standards. The JEOL JWS-7515 is a leading tool in this field, particularly when combined with the EIGEMBox, which facilitates the SECS/GEM protocol. In this blog, we’ll explore the significance of SECS/GEM, the features of the JEOL JWS-7515, and how the EIGEMBox enhances metrology processes.

What is SECS/GEM?

SECS/GEM stands for SEMI Equipment Communication Standard/Generic Equipment Model. It is a widely adopted communication protocol in the semiconductor manufacturing industry that allows for seamless data exchange between manufacturing equipment and host systems. This standard is critical for achieving automation and real-time data acquisition, which helps improve production efficiency and reduce errors.

Why SECS/GEM Matters

Standardization: By providing a uniform communication protocol, SECS/GEM simplifies the integration of various equipment and systems, leading to smoother operations.

Real-time Monitoring: With SECS/GEM, manufacturers can monitor equipment performance in real-time, allowing for quick adjustments and better decision-making.

Data Collection: The protocol facilitates extensive data collection, which is essential for analysis, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Overview of JEOL JWS-7515

The JEOL JWS-7515 is an advanced metrology tool designed for high-resolution imaging and analysis of semiconductor wafers. Here are some of its standout features:

High-Resolution Imaging

The JWS-7515 utilizes cutting-edge electron beam technology to achieve high-resolution imaging. This capability allows for detailed inspections of wafer surfaces, crucial for identifying defects that could compromise performance.

Versatility

This equipment is versatile enough to handle various materials and applications, making it an invaluable asset in a semiconductor fab. Its ability to analyze different substrates and feature sizes helps manufacturers maintain high standards across diverse product lines.

Automated Functionality

Automation is a key feature of the JWS-7515, which enhances throughput and minimizes human error. The system’s ability to integrate with software tools and other equipment makes it a central hub for metrology operations.

The Role of EIGEMBox

The EIGEMBox is a powerful tool that enhances the capabilities of the JEOL JWS-7515 by facilitating SECS/GEM communication. Here’s how it works:

Seamless Integration

The EIGEMBox acts as a bridge between the JEOL JWS-7515 and the host system, enabling seamless data transfer. This integration is crucial for manufacturers who require real-time insights into their metrology processes.

Enhanced Data Management

With the EIGEMBox, data collected by the JWS-7515 can be efficiently managed and analyzed. The ability to centralize data from multiple sources helps manufacturers streamline operations and improve decision-making.

Flexibility and Scalability

The EIGEMBox is designed to be flexible, accommodating a variety of equipment and systems. As manufacturing needs evolve, the EIGEMBox can be scaled to meet increased demands without significant infrastructure changes.

Benefits of Using SECS/GEM with JEOL JWS-7515 and EIGEMBox

Improved Efficiency

By automating data exchange and analysis, the combination of SECS/GEM, the JEOL JWS-7515, and the EIGEMBox significantly improves operational efficiency. Manufacturers can reduce downtime and optimize workflow, leading to faster production cycles.

Enhanced Quality Control

The ability to conduct real-time monitoring and analysis of wafer conditions ensures that quality control measures are always in place. This capability minimizes the risk of defects reaching the production stage, ultimately enhancing product reliability.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Access to comprehensive, real-time data allows manufacturers to make informed decisions quickly. This responsiveness is critical in a competitive landscape where even minor delays can have significant consequences.

Implementation Considerations

While the benefits of integrating SECS/GEM with the JEOL JWS-7515 and EIGEMBox are clear, several implementation considerations should be taken into account:

Training and Support

To fully leverage the capabilities of these technologies, manufacturers should invest in training for their staff. Understanding how to use the equipment and interpret data is essential for maximizing the benefits.

System Compatibility

Ensuring that the EIGEMBox is compatible with existing systems is crucial for a successful integration. Manufacturers should conduct thorough assessments before implementation to identify any potential challenges.

Ongoing Maintenance

Regular maintenance of both the JWS-7515 and the EIGEMBox is essential to maintain optimal performance. A proactive maintenance schedule can help prevent equipment failures and ensure long-term reliability.

Conclusion: Elevate Your Metrology Operations Today

The integration of SECS/GEM with the JEOL JWS-7515 metrology equipment, enhanced by the EIGEMBox, represents a significant advancement in semiconductor manufacturing. By improving efficiency, enhancing quality control, and enabling data-driven decision-making, this combination positions manufacturers for success in a highly competitive market.

If you're looking to elevate your metrology operations and embrace the future of semiconductor manufacturing, now is the time to act! Contact us today to learn more about how SECS/GEM, JEOL JWS-7515, and EIGEMBox can transform your processes. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to enhance your operational efficiency and product quality!

[a-valorant-effort]

Guess who’s jumping on the Valorant OC train (Card drawn by funky little bastard @lemonssoda)

Aurora

Sentinel

“Have no fear. You are safe with me.”

The gem of Poland, Aurora is a graceful battle angel who controls solid light to form shields and traps. Bending it to her will, Aurora acts as the teams prime defender and brings everyone home safe.

Abilites and backstory under the cut

C- Front Line (3)

Equip a beam of light and fire to place a shield to seal off doorways and passages. The shield goes away after 13.7 seconds. Neither can shoot through the shield. Both enemy and ally footsteps are muffled through the wall. If placed alongside a thin wall, it is no longer wallbangable.

Shield deployed!

The shield is up!

This will be your shield!

Q- False Ground (2)

Place a deployable trap that lays flat on the ground and emerges in the form of large spikes. Enemies have approximately 3 seconds to escape before losing large amounts of health. Trap is masked from a distance but a faint white light can be seen when approaching it closer. This trap cannot be destroyed.

Placing defenses.

Aligning defenses.

Forming the light.

(Upon activation)

Drawing the light.

Defense is up!

E- Reinforce (40 sec)

Replenish an ally’s shield for 80% of what they bought at the start of the round.

Recovering your shield!

I will protect you.

Reinstating your defenses.

(Inability to cast) Can’t help them.

X- Great Defender

Gives Aurora’s teammates a bonus 50 shield until it is destroyed or after 30 seconds. Aurora is extremely vulnerable in this state, reduced to 10 hp but gains whatever health she lost back when the shield returns. If she is killed the shield is removed. If Aurora is below 10hp, the health remains.

Ally: I stand with you!

Enemy: We are stronger!

Inability to cast: I need an ally//There’s no one left.

Backstory

“8 years? It feels like it was just a week ago.”

Aurora Borowicz was born in Warsaw, Poland. Raised in an opulent household, there were certain expectations Aurora had to meet throughout her life. No slouching, no slurping, no elbows on the table, she detested it.

Her life got particularly difficult when her parents sent her to boarding school when Aurora was 13. A rebellious spirit, Aurora found comfort in the idea that one day she would make it out of Poland, have a life of adventure. Until then, she would learn to be a schoolteacher, so she may inspire other girls to forge their own path rather the one predestined for them.

Valorant Protocol

“Someone?! Anyone?! HELP!!”

It was the early days of Valorant, back when it was only the core Kingdom associates in the protocol. The first public display/knowledge of radianite was reports of a young woman getting killed because of radianite poisoning in Poland.

Valorant wanted to see it themselves. Upon arrival to the disaster site, outside a small schoolhouse in Poland, a 500 foot tower of pure light had formed and seemed to be rapidly spreading. Locals told them of a woman who had fallen into the divot where a radianite meteor had crashed, and the tower had taken the divots place.

One child claimed that they could hear someone from inside the tower— their beloved schoolteacher, Ms. Aurora, could still be alive in there. Prying their way through the hard light, Valorant agents saw huddled in the middle a young Aurora, shocked and afraid at her newfound prison.

She was safely removed, and from that day Brimstone made a promise that Aurora would not have to be afraid of her powers anymore. If she were to join Valorant, she could have a better understanding of her newfound ability and help others in their quest to as well. Since then, Aurora has mastered her radiant ability, and mentors many of the younger agents, particularly Jett and Noura.

[weekinethereum]

November 16, 2017

Ethereum News and Links

Parity multi-sig frozen

Parity postmortem. Parity will look to unfreeze the multi-sig funds through the EIP process.  Frustratingly, Ricardo Guilherme Schmidt had flagged the init issue on August 3rd, so the init fix "was to be deployed in a regular update at a future point in time."

The web3 Foundation reiterated that it has 45m and will deliver Polkadot, but without an unfreeze would have to curtail planned spending on Whisper, Swarm, tooling, etc

Yoichi argues for only public discussion of unfreezing options.  "A curtain is enough to create a political structure."

Gitter channel to discuss technical options

Alex Miller: toward a multisig standard

Protocol

Vitalik on "Applying Stateless Clients to the Current Two-Layer State Trie"

Latest Casper standup

Vitalik's zk-STARK explainer

Semantics of Viper in K

ERC721: non-fungible token standard

Preston Evans proposes Pentagonal Exchange as a source of randomness

Parity and geth devs discussed light clients at Devcon.  Will continue experimenting before standardizing.  Also, light clients can't be servers for other light clients. But if you're running a full node, please include the --lightserv flag.

Stuff for developers

v3.1 of web3j supports ENS and Truffle

purescript-web3 from FOAM - more static guarantees than web3js

Truffle replaces testRPC with Ganache

Easy local testnets with Dapphub

Solidity linter

Solidity to gRPC service

A Walkthrough of the adChain Registry TCR in Solidity

Smart Contract Watch from Neufund -- monitor events happening on your code

"Smashing the EVM for fun and extensibility".  Great comment: "I heard you like VMs so we put a VM inside your VM"

A Remix + React + MetaMask tutorial in 4 parts.  Plus, set up a light client with React

Hydra Project: security development framework from IC3 presented at Devcon3

Some Truffle testing snippets

'Hello World' with Viper

Christian Reitwießner answers "deep questions" about Solidity.

Ecosystem

microRaiden set to be released to main net on November 28th

Blockapps compares solutions for enterprise

The roadmap for the Moon Project

Metamask Security Advisory and Bug Bounty for Seed Phrase Concern

uPort to officially register first Zug citizen on Ethereum

The second edition of Token Summit is December 5th in San Francisco.   Use discount code WENTS17 for 18% off.

How to claim your DNS name on ENS

Exchange

A WETH standard for wrapped ether

Interesting discussion on Reddit on 0x/IDEX/relayers between Phil Wearn and Kevin Day.

LocalEthereum with a timeline on centralized exchanges getting hacked.

Project Updates

Akasha update. May only let alpha and beta testers participate in their token sale, if they do one. Right now they have by far the most complicated token design in our entire ecosystem. Also helpfully provided: a tl;dr from Mihai Alisie

Aragon Q3 Transparency Report

Guide to SingularDTV launches

Making blockchain accessible to the masses through CryptoKitties

Iconomi October update

Six hard problems Livepeer is working on

Melon Mail —  secure messaging service hosted on IPFS

The ZeppelinOS roadmap

Project Announcements and Whitepapers

Trustology - Alex Batlin joins ConsenSys to work on custody and fund admin.

Happta -- CMS/blog publishing platform using MetaMask/Mist and IPFS. live on main and testnets.

{Set} -- tokenize tokens.  a protocol to create baskets of tokens

Liqudity Network.  Plus Jeff Coleman in the reddit thread on payment channels.

Gems -- decentralized Mechanical Turk

TrueBit whitepaper addendum

Dharma whitepaper 2.0.  "open protocol for generic tokenized debt agreements" blog post.

Interviews, Videos and Talks

The D1Conf on decentralized insurance has the first batch of videos uploaded, so you can check out Nexus Mutual and i-Chassis from Consensys.

Silicon Valley's Chris Diamantopoulos talks to SingularDTV

Joe Lubin 30m interview on CNBC International

Epicenter Devcon3 wrapup

Preethi Kasireddy on Changelog

Rhys Lindmark interviews with Nick Johnson and Mike Goldin

Fabian Vogelstellar on the Status Devcon video interview series

Griff Green talks Giveth on the same Status series

Token Sales

"I have yet to see an ICO that doesn’t have a sufficient number of hallmarks of a security" - SEC Chairman Jay Clayton in remarks at securities regulation conference.  Ryan Selkis reacts to those remarks: the need for transparency.

"Proof of Confidence" from Liquidaeon.  Token buyers lock Ether and receive tokens based on how long and how much Eth was locked up.

European Securities and Markets Authority: "ICOs may fall outside the scope of the existing rules and thus outside of the regulated space."

Dan Finlay writes a user guide for token sales

Jordan Cooper thinks killer apps may be close.  

Token Sale Projects

Etherisc: What is parametric insurance and why on a blockchain?

Virtue Poker promo vid

Jesse Leimgruber from Bloom on 5minCrypto

Oracles Network proof of authority with staked identity

Cofound.it announces the 6 final teams for Nov 30 playoffs event

Apply to get paid to evaluate potential Cofound.it projects

General

The Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash communities tend to be friendly.  Also why Ethereum didn't get built on top of Bitcoin -- a serious possibility at the time, as BTC maximalists were saying that all innovations would get incorporated into Bitcoin.  Amusing to see how the world has changed.

150k r/ethereum subscribers

Visual timeline of Linux forks.  Quite possibly our ecosystem will look like this, because...permissionless.  To quote Vitalik: "I am now so confident in crypto [because] there are so many different teams trying different approaches."

Kerfuffles this week: Bitcoin maximalists trying to take some Vitalik tweets waaaay out of context.  Plus Vinay Gupta yelling lots of things at Twitter alternative Gab.  But "permissionless" means we can't actually stop anyone from building on Ethereum if they choose to.

Vitalik Buterin and Olaf Carlson-Wee are both in Forbes 30 under 30 for finance

Square Cash is experimenting with letting people buy Bitcoin

Singapore's Project Ubin releases a report on phase 2 of its inter-bank settlement mechanism

Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar.

Upcoming token sale start dates:

November 17 – Neufund ICBM

November 17 – Realisto

November 20 – FundRequest

November 21 – Dopameme

November 21 – Gizer

November 25 – Rocketpool

November 25 – Relest

November 26 – CanYa

November 27 – Jibrel Network

November 28 – Gazecoin

November 30 – Debitum

November 30 – Nous Platform

November 30 – Bloom

December 1 – Oracles Network

December 4 – Aurora DAO from IDEX

December 5 – Token Summit in San Francisco.   Use discount code WENTS17 for 18% off.

Ongoing token sales:

Aigang

Hirematch

Guts

TokenBox

SimpleToken

Snov

ScriptDrop

RockChain

PayFair

SeedsTokens

Sense Token

Leverj

Duber

Crypto.Tickets

WARNING: list may include or even likely includes scams and quasi-scams.  Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk.  Read disclaimer below.

Want to be included?  If you are building your project on Ethereum, email weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com with 1) your URL, 2) sale date and 3) a brief but convincing description of how you are using Ethereum, preferably with a link to your Github repo.  Listings are free.  But please make sure to follow those instructions.  If you don’t follow the instructions, you likely won’t get a response.

[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. If you're interested in what I do, you can find my somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]

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[nullset2]

How to test a DHCP server locally

I have been working a lot with the DHCP protocol lately and I want to crystallize my knowledge in this article.

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and it's a communication protocol, in the same way that TCP/IP or UDP are protocols. It is an agreed standard for devices to communicate over the network, specialized in the problem domain of assigning IP addresses to devices on a network.

DHCP works on top of UDP, actually, which enables a connectionless model for DHCP to work: you don't need for things to maintain a sustained connection for DHCP to succeed.

DHCP works by sending a bunch of messages in binary data between the clients and the server. This binary data is sent in packets, known as datagrams in the UDP context.

Clients send messages to a DHCP server on UDP port 67/68, which usually has a process listening to socket connections on that port, understands then, and "runs the books" to assign IP addresses to devices. The DHCP server also is aware of what hosts are connected to the network, which IP addresses they currently have, and for how long those addresses will be applicable, and many other things. These "IP address grants" are known as leases.

If we dissect the data that gets sent in a message over DHCP, it looks like this:

The first four octets are the header of the message, similar to HTTP headers if you're familiar with them, followed by 4 octets for the transaction id (xid). These fields change depending on the kind of connection the client is trying to get to the network (for example, MAC addresses work differently if they're ethernet or wireless) among other things.

The next 4 octets (up to the "flags" rectangle on that diagram) are data used to identify what kind of DHCP message we're dealing with and other bookeeping information (more on that on the next section)).

Then you get 16 octets to hold ip addresses: your, client, server, and gateway. Then, 16 more, to hold the MAC address of the client. A MAC is commonly a series of hex numbers that are unique to each device in the world (though they can be easily spoofable and it doesn't really matter if they're not truly unique).

The rest of the space is basically overflow space, which can be used for custom DHCP options or legacy info. And finally you get to one of the very most important pieces of info: the DHCP Options.

The DHCP Options cover the rest of the message and its usage depends on the particular implementation of DHCP that you're using, with different lengths and offsets. There's a lot of different DHCP server implementations out there that do different things with the information that you send on the DHCP options. Some even expect custom DHCP options from their clients --however this article will not cover these, instead adapting to the standard options mentioned in the IEEE: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt

The basic "handshake" that occurs in DHCP is known as the Discover-Offer-Request-Accept loop, mnemonically abbreviated DORA. This means that, to successfully get an IP address from a DHCP server your client has to have completed the DORA handshake.

This loop works, roughly, like this:

The client sends a DISCOVER message (DHCPDISCOVER) by generating a message with DHCP Option 53 set to 1, as in, hex 1.

The server separates an IP address for the client, and responds to this message with an OFFER (DHCPDISCOVER), which includes the reserved IP address in the message.

Once the client has an offer, it should REQUEST (DHCPREQUEST) the IP from the server. This creates a lease and makes the client claim the IP for itself.

Finally, the DHCP client ACKNOWLEDGEs (DHCPACKNOWLEDGE) the request. All is right with the world.

Note: there's other message types in the DHCP standard, but for now we won't concern outselves with them ;)

But enough chit-chat, let's test your DHCP server! The following will assume that the server is running on 11.1.0.1, on an isolated network interface, on port 67 or 68, so adjust accordingly if you're using this for your own purposes.

To this, we'll use good old netcat to shuttle the data, but what data, you may ask? Let's craft us some DHCP messages with good ol' Ruby:

gem install net-dhcp

What if we do fuckin' irb?:

irb(main):001:0> require 'net/dhcp' => true irb(main):002:0> DHCP::Discover.new => #<:discover:0x00000001380828>, #<:parameterrequestlistoption:0x00000001380648>], @htype=1, @hlen=6, @hops=0, @xid=3735286446, @secs=0, @flags=0, @ciaddr=0, @yiaddr=0, @siaddr=0, @giaddr=0, @chaddr=[10, 0, 39, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], @sname=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], @fname=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]>

Nice! Do you see that deliciousnesss right there? omakase all up in this shit! Net::DHCP has a bunch of subclasses representing the DHCP message types and options, such as:

DHCP::Discover

DHCP::Offer

DHCP::Request

DHCP::Acknowledge

Which you can instantiate and modify to your heart's desires.

And even sweeter, all of these have sane defaults, that set up an object to the correct state, so you don't have to!

"But, Alfredo!", you may ask, longingly, pensively, trying to get my attention, "this is just an object in ruby and I need to serialize it to send it over the wire!"

Well, just use pack, dude:

irb(main):003:0> DHCP::Discover.new.pack => "\x01\x01\x06\x00\xE7'\xCE\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\n\x00'\x00\x00\n\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00c\x82Sc5\x01\x017\x04\x01\x03\x06\x0F\xFF\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"

If I were you, I'd take all of this, and... start getting it in a script somewhere which outputs this to standard output... and put that script somewhere in my $PATH... but that's just me ;)

(Protip: before starting you probably want to tcpdump for traffic on port 67 or 68 so you can see how your messages are landing:

sudo tcpdump -s0 -A -i any -X 'port 67 or port 68'

Now, take your nice output and pipe it to netcat through the standard input. I like to use echo -ne because it inteprets whatever has a backslash. Easy~!

echo -ne "\x01\x01\x06\x00\xE7'\xCE\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\n\x00'\x00\x00\n\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00c\x82Sc5\x01\x017\x04\x01\x03\x06\x0F\xFF\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" | nc -u 11.1.0.1 67 -1-w 1

And booyah:

tcpdump: listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 65535 bytes 10:22:57.679288 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 255, id 28731, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 328) 11.1.0.1.59229 > 11.1.0.1.bootps: [bad udp cksum 3df7!] UDP, length 300 0x0000: 4500 0148 703b 4000 ff11 f465 0b01 0001 E..Hp;@....e.... 0x0010: 0b01 0001 e75d 0043 0134 1749 0101 0600 .....].C.4.I.... 0x0020: e727 ce03 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .'.............. 0x0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0a00 2700 000a 0000 ..........'..... 0x0040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0090: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x00f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0100: 0000 0000 0000 0000 6382 5363 3501 0137 ........c.Sc5..7 0x0110: 0401 0306 0fff 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0120: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0x0140: 0000 0000 0000 0000 ........

So... once you know that your DHCP server has allocated an address for you, request it with DHCP::Request. Should be a really simple exercise at this point: the rest of the exercise is left to the student as practice ;)

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What is SECS/GEM? Understanding the SEMI Equipment Communications Standard/Generic Equipment Model

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June 21, 2019 | DTP

In the last couple of days, the story of Occidental Mindoro’s 22 fishermen from the Municipality of San Jose sold like hot cakes in social and mass media. It stirred up  emotions and herded divided opinions among analysts and bystanders. However, their saga appears to be at its closing episode when they received livelihood assistance from DA Sec. Manny Pinol and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource (BFAR).

(Photos from Bfar Mimaropa)

As per Bfar Mimaropa‘s post at their Facebook page, the twenty-two (22) crewmen of F/B Gem Ver 1 secured for themselves 12 fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRB) plastic boats, bottom-set gill nets, hook and lines, life best, and a sack of rice.

Cong. Josephine Ramirez-Sato with Vice Gov. Peter Alfaro and DA Sec. Manny Pinol. Photo from Sangguniang Panlalawigan.

  The aid came almost in an instant after the boat captain Junel Insigne apologized to President Rodrigo Duterte, June 19. This followed after recanting his previous story that  Chinese vessel intentionally rammed and sank their F/B Gem Ver 1 fishing boat in Recto Bank last June 9.

So how did their story brewed our coffee? Let’s try putting things in a time line based on new reports.

June 9, 2019. At around 11:30pm, Chinese trawler Yuemaobinyu 42212 purportedly hit F/B Gim-Ver 1 with 22 crewmen from San Jose, Occidental Mindoro off Recto Bank in West Philippine Sea which resulted to its sinking.

Gem Ver’s cook Richard Blaza said he informed and woke up others before the Chinese trawler hit them.

FB Gimver 1 left the shore of Municipality of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro to fish at Recto Bank, May 29. They reached Recto Bank at West Philippine Sea in May 31, 2019.

  June 10, 2019. At around 1:00am, after hours of floating in open sea, the 22 fishermen were rescued by Vietnamese boat Captain Nguyen Thanh Tam together with his 10 crew from the Province of Tien Giang. The Filipino fishermen were given “rice, instant noodles, and warm materials”.

Saigon Times reported that the Vietnamese boat is owned by 54-year old Ngo Van Theng, a resident of Tien Giang’s Go Cong town. He confirmed it was his boat that rescued the Filipinos.

The Filipino fishermen then borrowed the Vietnamese radio to contact Filipino fishing vessels nearby for help. M2M fishing boat picked up their call and reached for the Vietnamese boat to pickup Gem Ver 1’s crew.

Alerted of the incident in the morning through Maritime Situational Awareness Center – West (MSAC-WEST), the Philippine Navy then sent BRP Ramon Alcaraz to rescue the 22 fishermen.

  June 12, 2019. National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana broke the news to the media coinciding with Philippines’ 121st Independence Day Celebration, condemning in strongest term the Chinese action particularly that of abandoning Filipino seafarers.

These were his statements:

Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Command Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Penetrante also sees it “far from accidental”. These were his statements:

“According to our report, it’s far from accidental kasi kung accidental po ito, the SOP should be they should stop ‘di po ba? And then they should rescue, rescue these fishermen natin ano po. E nung tinamaan nila yung F/B Gem Ver 1 ay ano po sila, dire-diretso, hindi nila tinigilan. Kung titingnan nyo po sa incident report, may intentionality e, kasi hindi na po tumigil.

Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin also shared his view on the matter through his twitter account Wednesday evening.

DFA Sec. Teddy Locsin. Photo from Twitter.

“I take my cue from Defense Sec. Lorenzana. What is contemptible and condemnable is the abandonment of the crew to the elements. Vietnam’s rescue will be the basis of enhanced Vietnam-PH military cooperation“.

“And by the way I just fucking landed in Geneva. I’ve been airborne. I am awaiting a West Philippine Sea task force report. My reaction thus far relies exclusively on Defense Secretary Lorenzana. I can’t rely on media; it’d be irresponsible to rely only on media”, he added.

  June 13, 2019. Senator Sonny Triallanes called on Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin that the incident be referred to Maritime Safety Committee of International Maritime Organization. But before that, twitting on Thursday morning, June 13, Sec. Locsin reacted otherwise by stating “Fuck the international communit. It can be bought. This is our fight and in the end ours alone”.

He however confirmed that he’s filling a protest to IMO in response to Sen. Triallane’s tweet.

Sec. Locsin tweeted that he “will proceed on the merits of the case and what it calls for awhile the matter is studied by the IMO”.

The Foreign Affairs Secretary also considered the incident as an “allision” rather than “collision”.

“Wrong. It’s presumably an “allision” or bumping of two vessels one of which was stationary. Ramming is another thing altogether requiring proof of intentionality. So far as I know none of us is a mind reader not least because some of us have no mind with which to read another”, he tweeted Thursday night.

In a Palace briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on the hand said that the Chinese government is “seriously” and “thoroughly” looking into the incident as the latter has already launched an investigation.

Panelo’s statement is based on the text message sent to him by Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua which reads: “The fishing boat issue is being thoroughly and seriously investigated. We share your concerns about fishermen. It is were true that it was a Chinese fishing boat, they would be duly educated and punished for their irresponsible behavior. Incidents happen even in the best-regulated family. We hope this incident could be held  in a proper context”. 

But for Panelo,“Whether is a form of bullying or not, it’s outrageous, it’s barbaric, it’s uncivilized and we’re condemning it. The act of abandonment, by those sailing the Chinese vessel of 22 Filipino fishermen aboard their anchored and stationary watercraft by them, is uncivilized as it is outrageous. Such act of desertion is inhuman as it is barbaric. It is a crystal-clear violation of maritime protocols as well as an infringement of internationally accepted practice of assisting a vessel in distress. We call on the appropriate Chinese authorities to probe the collision and impose the proper sanctions to the Chinese crew”.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang. Photo from http://www.hindustantimes.com.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang however considered the incident as “an ordinary maritime traffic incident” and that it is irresponsible for the Philippines to have it “politicized”.

“If the relevant reports are true, regardless of the country from which the perpetrator came from, their behavior should be condemned”, Geng Shuang added.

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo. Photo from Philippine News Agency.

In the contrary, Spokesman Panelo said, “Regardless of the nature of the collision, whether it was accidental or intentional, common decency and the dictates of humanity require the immediate saving of the crew of the downed Philippine vessel”.

Later that day, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana softened his stand on the issue, stating that he is unsure if the vessel that rammed F/B Gem Ver 1 is really Chinese.

These were his statements when interviewed by reporters in General Santos City:

Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. Photo from Philippine News Agency.

“We are just relying on the statement of the fishermen that the ship that hit them was a Chinese ship. Yun lang ang bavsehan ko nung sinabi kong Chinese ‘yon ha. Now we will still get an inquiry, tanungin natin yung Vietnamese, and Vietnam side, Chinese side, kung meron silang report na gano’n. We will find out kung ano ang aksyon nila, kung it will be proven that it is a Chinese vessel, then we will find out what are their actions”.

Mayor Festin appealed to President Duterte to speak out with “muscle in mouth” regarding the incident.

San Jose, Occidental Mindoro Mayor Muloy Festin. Photo screenshot from Youtube.

“Ipakita natin yung ating muscle. May muscle din tayo kahit sa bibig. Kung wala man tayong muscle sa giyera eh sa bunganga man lang at sa tinatawag na propoer court kung saan dapat dalhin yan. Sana ‘wag mapabayaan itong kaso na ito, at saka gawing transparent para ang lahat ng mga concerned tio – lahat ng mga Pilipino concerned eh – para maintindihan at walang agam-agam”, Mayor Festin said.

Fe Dela Torre, the wife Felix Dela Torre and owner of Gem Ver 1 also appealed for justice.

“Katarungan. Katarungan lang po para sa tao ko ang hinihingi ko po kasi po may mga anak din sila at umaasa kasi sila. Ang sa amin lang, sana mahinto na ito, mabigyan ng aksyon. Kasi nakakaawa tayo kung ang dayuhan, uulit-ulitin pa rin”, she lamented.

Katarungan. Katarungan lang po para sa tao ko ang hinihingi ko po kasi po may mga anak din sila, at umaasa kasi sila,”Ang sa amin lang, sana mahinto na ito, mabigyan ng aksiyon, kasi nakakaawa tayo kung ang dayuhan, uulit-ulitin pa rin.”

  June 14, 2019.

Gem Ver 1 seafarers returned to San Jose port aboard BRP Tausug, on which they were transferred from BRP Alcaraz. They were turned over to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and were welcomed by Regional Director Elizer Salilig who gave 1 sack of rice to each fishermen as immediate assistance.

Gem Ver 1 skipper Junel Insigne in an interview said that they were intentionally rammed by the Chinese vessel.

“Sinadya po iyon dahil kung hindi po iyon sinadya dapat babalikan kami, tutulungan. Ay bakit tinakbuhan po kami tapos sinindihan yung ilaw? Nung nakita kaming lubog, tinakbuhan kami… Kaya nga po, wala naman kaming pinuperwisyo sa kanila. Naghahanap-buhay naman po kami ng maayos eh”, Insigne said.

Felix Dela Torre, owner of the sunken boat, also expressed his frustration over the incident, saying he felt like Filipinos are “slaves” of China.

“Syempre po, parang alipin tayo ng China. Parang wala tayong karapatan sa sariling ating nasasakupan”, says Dela Torre.

Meanwhile, a day after Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin said “Fuck the international community”, Philippine’s deputy permanent representative to International Maritime Organization Senen Mangalile delivered the statement slamming the Chinese ship for ramming Gem Ver 1.

The Press Release reads:

PH STATEMENT AT IMO URGES PROTECTION OF LIFE AT SEA

LONDON – The Philippines urge all member states of the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to put a premium on protecting life at sea in cases of maritime distress.

In a statement at the 101st Session of the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) at the IMO Senen T. Mangalile referred to the Philippine fishing vessel which sank after an incident with a Chinese vessel while anchored at the vicinity of Recto Bank in Palawan.

The Philippine statement drew attention to the fact that the Filipino crew of the fishing vessel “were callously abandoned to the elements on the rough seas and woud have perished” were it not for the assistance from the crew of a Vietnamese vessel. The statement highlighted that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the IMO convention on Safety of Life at Sea and Maritime Search and Rescue have express provision on rendering assistance to distressed mariners.

“It is the obligation of every responsible state of the UN and the IMO to implement these conventions and related codes concerning maritime safety and security, rather than just paying lip service to them”, Mangalile said. “It is also our moral obligation to save a human life whenever and wherever we can do so”, he added.

Mangalile also thanked Vietnam for the assistance it provided the 22 Filipino crew.

MSC deals with all matters related to maritime safety and security which fall within within the mandate of the IMO, covering both passenger ships and all kinds of cargo ships. The MSC likewise deals with updating the International for Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and related codes. -END

Chinese Embassy in Manila meanwhile posted in their Twitter account a Press Release on the so-called collision of fishing boats between China and the Philippines.

Notably, it claims that Yuemaobinyu 42212 “was suddenly besieged by 7 or 8 Filipino fishing boats which prevented them from saving the 22 Filipino fishermen after boat sank due to a “so-called collision”.

The same was posted at their Facebook account at 9:20pm. Hours later, it was taken down, drawing flak from netizens.

Presidential Spokesman Salvador looked into possibility of cutting ties with China if proven guilty.

These were Panelo’s statements:

“We want to find out first. If it was intentional, ibang usapan na ‘yun. If it is intentional, it is an act of aggression. What’s the next step? We will cut off diplomatic relations if there are aggressive acts. First, file a diplomatic protest. If you are not content with their explanation, we find out that it was intentional, that we will be another matter. Given the steps undertaken by the President on the Canada trash issue, that’s more likely…baka severe pa, hindi natin alam. Let’s leave it to the President.”

“We call the Chinese government to probe the incident and to impose punitive action against those at fault. Definitely we will not allow ourselves to be assaulted, to be bullied, to be the subject of such barbaric, uncivilized and outrageous actions from any source. The act of abandonment, bu those sailing the Chinese fishing vessel of twenty-two Filipino fishermen aboard their anchored and stationary watercraft hit by them, is uncivilized as it is outrageous.” 

US Embassy, on the other hand expressed relief on the safe return of fishermen in an email sent to Manila Bulletin.

“We saw news reports of the collision at sea. We are thankful none of the Filipino fishermen lost their lives and glad that Vietnamese fishermen rescued them from the open sea”.

They also stood firm on their support for the “lawful uses of the sea, respect for international law, unimpeded lawful commerce, and peace and stability” while urging the parties to “refrain from using coercion and intimidation to assert their territorial and maritime claims”.

Later that night, Junel Insigne reiterated that Chinese boat can’t be besieged since there were no other boat present in the area but Gem Ver 1.

“Wala man. Kami-kami lang ang nandoon. Kami-kami lang. Wala mang ibang bangka doon, kami-kami lang. Dahil nung gabi na yun, lubog nga kami, kami pa ang mag-aatake? Ibig sabihin, naghihintay lang kami ng balik nila, iniintay lang namin na i-save kami, na saklolohan. Ay bakit umatras sila, bago pinatay ang ilaw, bago tumakbo nang palayo”, he said.

  June 15, 2019. Director of University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea Professor Jay Batongbacal shared a Google Earth screenshot, using visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS), of Recto Bank, also known as Reed Bank, that showing boats spread all over the area on the night of June 9, 2019, making it impossible for Chinese vessel to be “suddenly besieged by 7 or 8 Filipino fishing boat” as claimed by Chinese Embassy in Manila.

A screenshot of Google Earth showing images of Recto Bank on the night of June 9, 2019. Photo courtesy of Jay Batongbacal.

The following were Prof. Jay Batongbacal’s explanation and interpretation of the image:

“The VIIRS satellite data from the night of 09 June 2019 shows only a few fishing vessels operating in the area of Reed Bank at the time. Each boat-icon is a fishing vessel identified by its bright lights. They are spread over the wide area of Reed Bank; the closest two lights are about 3-5 nautical miles (approximately 7 to 9 km) apart. What 7-8 vessel swarm of night-marauding Filipino boats is China talking about?”

“I don’t know which one is the immediate area of the incident, but that point is that there is no potential swarm anywhere, and fishing boats operate far from each other. Of course, their visibility depends on whether they were lighted sufficiently or were stationary long enough during the exact time the satellite passed over, but this just shows how unbelievable their claim (being besieged) is”.

“There is no prior record of any group of Filipino fishing vessels ‘besieging’ (attacking) any other vessel anywhere in the high seas. Ever. Not even the notorious pirates that used to operate in the southern seas operate that way. Only Chinese maritime militia vessels (and Vietnamese maritime militia responding to the Chinese) have been involved is such coordinated swarming system”.

In a news article published at Philstar.com, Agricuture Secretary Manny Piñol announced on Facebook that BFAR Regional Director Elizer Salilig has committed to give 22 “unsinkable” fiberglass boat with complete accessories including engine and nets.

This was reported by Undersecretary Eduardo Gongona, BFAR Executive Director.

At 11:44am, the statement that was posted and then taken down on the night of June 14 was again posted at the Facebook account of Chinese Embassy.

Meanwhile, in an interview with CNN Philippines, Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo assured the public that “The President will undertake measures that is appropriate for the incident.

“Depende kasi ‘yan kung anong magiging response ng Chinese government sa ating diplomatic protests”, Panelo added.

He also defended the President for being silent on the issue on the last couple of days.

“The President is a very cautious man. If you noticed he makes calibrated responses. When the President speaks, they are intentional to get some desired effects or sometimes as he calls it he shares the tree for reactions”.

He also cautioned the Filipino fisher whenever they go out in open sea to fish.

“Maging maingat sila sa kanilang ginagawang pangingisda sa lugar na iyon at ipaalam kaagad sa atin kung anuman ang unusual na nakikita nila na maaring magkaroon ng kalakaran kung saan ang kanilang kaligtasan ay malalagay sa alanganin”.

He also rejected Chinese claims of Philippines “politicizing the issue without verification”.

“We are not politicizing that incident. What we’re focusing is on the act of abandoning, not the collision itself…but the act of abandoning that is in violation of Unclos (United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Seas)”.

Meanwhile, Supreme Court Senior Justice Associate Antonio Carpia said that the Chinese vessel that rammed Gem Ver 1 is under the command of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

  June 16, 2019. Department of Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi visited San Jose, Occidental Mindoro where he held a meeting with 22 fishermen. The meeting however resulted to Cusi casting doubt on Gem Ver 1 crew’s story to the dismay of the latter.

These were Cusi’s statements in an interview after meeting with fishermen:

“So as of now, kasi sasabihin natin, kung talagang babanggain ay bakit, kung sa kuwan ba ano, ah pwede namang sasabihin natin napakabulok naman nung babangga. Daplis lang. Kung sa kuwan ba… Kung mean to kill, mean to.. syempre idiretso mo na.”

Department of Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi. Photo from DOE Facebook account.

The Energy Secretary defended as well the President on his silence as he is still  “studying” the situation.

“Ang masasabi natin, this really is an accident that happened. Tinitingnan nga natin nang mabuti since it involves another country noh. Another vessel that is owned and registered in China. We want to, gusto natin maging certain kung ano talaga yung pangyayari on how it happened.”

“Meron po kaming emergency Cabinet meeting dahil pag-aaralan po natin ito, Si Pangulo, Si Mayor Duterte, tahimik, pinag-aaralan niyang mabuti dahil ayaw naman po niyang gumawa ng hakbang na hindi tama ang binabasehang  impormasyon”, Cusi said.

Secretary Cusi hailed from Oriental Mindoro and is assigned to oversee the affairs of MIMAROPA Region.

Later that day, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro Mayor Muloy Festin also announced that Captain Junel Insigne and the boat’s cook Richard Blaza is set to meet the President on Monday, June 17. 

Hours after Mayor Festin’s announcement, Junel Insigne however appeared uncomfortable, citing Secretary Cusi’s statements.

“Kasi sa salita ni Secretary, yung pagbangga daw sa amin, parang padaplis lang. Bakita parang hindi sinadya, dahil padaplis lang.. Bakit parang ganon po salita ni Secretary sa amin?”, Insigne said in an interview.

Justin Pacaul, one of Gem Ver 1 crews, also expressed his disappointment at the turn of events.

“Bakit kami pa ang baliktarin na nang-harass sa kanila? Kung kami man mang-harass sa kanila hindi namin kakayanin. Malaki ang bangka nila at marami sila sa aming”, Pacaul said.

His wife Mailyn shared his sentiments. She said she is contemplating a lot on their means of livelihood.

“Hindi po namin alam kung paano namin maso-solusyunan pang araw-araw dahil wala na pong bangka na paglalautan sila. Masaya ako nang makita ko sya na okay naman. Ang tanging kinalulungkot namin ngayon, wala kaming kabuhayan ngayon. Wala siyang hanap-buhay”, says Mailyn.

In an interview with ABS-CBN News that night, Sunday, Mayor Muloy Festin also said that the Provincial Director of Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources was assigned to accompany Insigne and Blaza going to Malacanang.

  June 17, 2019. President Duterte finally broke his silence for the first time since National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenza spilled the beans of Recto Bank incident to the media last July 12. He considered it as “maritime incident”, echoing  Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang’s June 13 statement treating the same as “an ordinary maritime traffic incident”, 

President Duterte made his statements while attending the 121st Philippine Navy Anniversary at Sangley Point, Cavite.

The following were President Duterte’s statements:

“Yang nangyari dyan sa banggaan, that is a maritime incident. Huwag kayo maniwala dyan sa mga pulitiko na bobo. Gusto papuntahin yung Navy. You do not send gray ships there. Banggaan lang ng barko yan. Do not make it worse because there is a, that’s a fertile ground for.. Alam nyong mga sundalo, miscommunication yan. Patay na. And we are not yet ready, we can never be ready in a nuclear war. Because in a nuclear war, kung bitawan lahat yan, earth will dry up and we will all be destroyed. And that is the end of everything. So tamang-tama lang pang-depensa sa atin. Bilihin ko lahat. Pero magsabi tayo, ready, your guns are cocked to go to war, that’s the most stupid thing i can.. Wala, paliparin lahat ng nuclear, e sundalo kayo. Dalawa lang ang bomba, tumuyo ang Japan. Eh (inudible) bitawan yanng almost 1 thousand warheads, di anong mangyari, di walang tutubo dito, pati isda ubos. Maritime incident is a maritime incident. It is best investigated. And I do not now issue statements because there is no investigation and there is no result. Then the only thing that we can do is to wait and give the other party the right to be heard. Importante yan eh. Oh China, marami kang binigay na.. ano ba dito ang totoo. O tapos, anong nangyari, ganito. Then let us sort, ano ang ma-sort natin dyan? Kung bago ano iyung totoo bago tayo mag..(inaudible). Dalawang bangka lang yan. Now you go there and create a tension. I said, hindi ako gago na presidente na papayag na.. If we have to die, we must have to die in correct way and to die with dignity. Hindi yung basta bangga-bangga ka lang dyan. It’s a matter of that incident na nagbanggan yung mga fishing boat. You read a lot about fumigation, anger, kung ano-ano na lang. You know, we are ruled as a civilized nation and members of the community by the laws that govern whatever happen in the seas as we go along our business. There will be rules for a military confrontation. There will be rules for a mistaken identity. There is a rule for fishermen’s boat. There is rule for an aircraft carrier bumping a fishing boat. Ano, with all the.. yung galit, and one national official, event urgent sending the gray ships, war ships, doon sa China Sea. Alam mo, gusto ko yan. Kung ako lang ang pipiliin, gusto ko ng aksyon. But I am not in my boyhood age anymore.” –Manila Bulletin Online.

Hours after President Duterte’s speech, Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin presented the issue of Philippine boat sinking at the United Nations at UN Headquarters in New York. This coincided with the commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

In his speech he said, “The 22 Filipino crew were left in the water until a Vietnamese vessel took them on boar. We are grateful, we are eternally in debt to our strategic partner, Vietnam, for this act of mercy and decency.”

“The rescue of persons in distress is a universally recognized obligation of people and governments; and in civil law and, maybe even in common law, it is a felony to abandon people in distress, especially when we cause that distress; and more so when it is no bother at all to save them at no risk to oneself. While no sanction is available in international law, it should be a cause of some concern. Whether International law can be enforced in another matter. And it doesn’t help that parties with the strength to enfore it – and who have invoked a lot the need for it – have not joined it. –Philstar.coml

Sec. Locsin also noted the 3-fold duty of the ship master as cited in Article 98 of UNCLOS. These are:

to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost

to proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress, if informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such action may reasonable be expected of him

after a collision, to render assistance to the other ship, its crew and its passengers and, where possible, to inform the other ship of the name of his own ship, its port of registry and the nearest port at which it will call

Meanwhile, Prof. Jay Batongbacal said that the Chinese vessel has violated Philippine laws against pouching which is classified as a crime by the Philippine Fisheries Code (Republic Act 8550) and under the 1987 Constitution. This is in support to earlier claims of Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio who said that the Chinese vessel has violated the UNCLOS.

“China expressly admitted in their press statement through the Chinese embassy that their vessel was engaged in purse seine fishing operation on Reed Bank, which is within our exclusive economic zone under UNCLOS and as per 2016 Philippine v. China arbitration award. That’s clear and obvious an UNCLOS violation as you can get.. There is no prematurity here because China itself expressly admitted it without prodding from the Philippines”, Prof. Batongbacal said.

Gem Ver 1 Captain Junel Insigne backed out from the supposedly meeting with President Duterte. Mayor Muloy Festin confirmed this saying that Insigne asked to be dropped off on their way to Calapan City where they will take a RORO boat bound to Batangas. They were already in Roxas, Oriental when Insigne expressed his desire to return to San Jose, Occidental Mindoro.

It was then said that Insigne’s wife called him and told him to return home instead upon learning that the Cabinet meeting has been canceled.

In an interview with News5Everywhere, Insigne’s wife expressed her side about the meeting and Secretary Cusi’s statements.

“Wala namang magaganap na pagpupulong, ba’t nga pupunta pa sya, anong gagawin nya dun? Kaya hindi ko sya pinasama. Tsaka masama pati ang loob ko kahapon nga kay Cusi na sabi nya di ba. Hindi naman pala kayo nasentro. Biro lang. Binibiro lang kayo. Pinapahagingan lang kayo. Lumubog ang bangka. Gusto nya pa pala mamatay ang mga tao. Para masabing, ano.. Ang tagal nang kapitan ng asawa ko. Kahit bagyuhan malakas yan. Yan ang halos Kapitan na hindi tumatabi. Mga kasamahan niyang bangka walang huli, siya maraming huli. Tapos sasabihin niyang alon lang ang bumangga, e kalmang-kalma. E sa alon nga hindi nagigiba iyan. Sasabihin niyang ganun… Wag na lang syang tumuloy. Sabi ko sa kanya wala ring mangyayari syo… Eh anong gagawin niya dun. Katulad nyan, ibinalita, wala namang magaganap na pagpupulong. Anong gagawin nya doon? Imbes na maktulong ko dito sa pagluluto ng ulam, maghanap ng mga ulam namin, barbecue. Anong gagawin nya doon?.. Oo, masama talaga (loob ko) lalo na kay Cusi kahapon. Sasabihin nyang ganun. Pinapahagingan lang pala kayo. Hindi naman pala kayo nasentro. Nakakapit naman pala kayo sa bangka, hindi naman pala sa tubig. Yung sabihin niyang ganon. Sabihin ba naman ni Cusi na ganon… Eh kung bagyuhan pa yun pa, malalaking alon, patay silang lahat. Buti nga kalma pa at hindi malakas ang alon”

In an interview with GMA News, Insigne admitted that his decision not to go Manila is largely affected and influenced by Secretary Cusi’s statements last June 16.

He said, “Naano lang din talaga ako sa salita ni Secretary. Medyo masama talaga ang loob ko. Baka panig sya sa China eh. Ewan ko lang po kung makakatulong pa sila. Talagang masama ang loob ko sa sinabi niyang iyon. Akala ko, ano, hindi po totoo iyun. Talagang sinadya po kaming banggani ng Chinese fishing vessel. Ay kung sa akin lang, kung tutulong, eh ano na lang kung tumulong. Pero yung pupunta pa ako doon, hindi na po kaya.”

Insigne’s statement was supported by his fellow Gem Ver 1 crew, Bannie Condeza.

“Sabi hindi intensyunal, e sa lapad po ng dagat na yan. Isa pa may ilaw kami”, Condeza narrated.

Gem Ver 1 owner Felix Dela Torre added, “Parang sinasabi nilang nagsisinungaling pa yung mga tauhan ko.”

In the same interview, Junel Insigne’s older brother Junnard Insigne admitted that he is the one who told Junel to return to San Jose

He said, “Si Secretary Cusi po, parang kaiba na po yung ano nya. Kasi parang binabaligtad nya po yung sitwasyon po. Yung bangka daw po ay na-kuwan lang ng alon kaya naputol. Bago po yung kuwan, ang sabi ay hindi ho sinasadya. Kasi po iyung kung talagang nasentro sila, talagang patay po sila doon. Talagang hindi lang sila nasentro kaya kuwan, kaya sa pwet lang sila dumaan.”

Junel Insigne’s wife even said Presidente Duterte should go to Mindoro if he wants to help. She said, “..Siya ang pumunta dito kung gusto niyang tumulong. Tumulong sya kung gusto nya.”

Richard Blaza however went on to go to Manila. With him is Arlinda Dela Torre, the mother of Felix Dela Torre who owns the sunken boat.

Bong Go however denied that a such meeting was scheduled.

In other story, Malacañang refused to accept the statement made by Felix Dela Torre, the owner of the sunken boat, who felt that Filipinos are Chinese “slaves” and “have no sovereignty over its own waters”.

“Baka it’s a rhetorical question. Siyempre the response is we can never be slaves to anyone’, Panelo said.

  Opposition Sen. Risa Hontiveros, on the other hand demanded that Energy Sec. Cusi apologize to fishermen of Occidental Mindoro. She said Sec. Cusi’s remarks “are the height of insensitivity to our poor fisherfolk, ignorance of facts and even bordering on the treacherous”.

Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros. Photo from Senate of the Philippines Facebook.

  “It becomes completely understandable, then, why Junel Insigne, captain of the F/B Gem Ver 1, backed out of the meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte. With public officials like Secretary Cusi, who needs enemies? Is Secretary of Energy now an expert at evaluating collisions between sea vessels? Is he now lawyering for the Chinese government? What additional proof does Secretary Cusi need? For our fishing vessel to be completely wrecked and for people to die? The Chinese government itself left has admitted that their boat rammed our. Our Department of Defense, as well as the consistent accounts of our fishermen, also confirms this”, Sen. Hontiveros added.

  June 18, 2019. Gem Ver 1 kitchen crew Richard Blaza went on to meet Sec. Manny Pinol in Manila to recount his version of the story. Accordingly, he was the only one awake as he was cooking rice at the kitchen when the incident happened.

Here are Sec. Pinol’s statements in an article published by ABS CBN News:

“Richard told me shortly before the incident, the captain was sleeping in his cabin, the captain’s cabin. And there were only 2 lights in the fishing boat – one in the captain’s cabin and one in the kitchen. When he saw the vessel coming towards their direction, he rushed to the captain and roused the captain from his sleep and told him that there was an incoming vessel. He said the captain tried to start the engine but it was too late, they were hit by the vessel. Shortly after the impact, he said the vessel actually slowed down, lighted the vessel and trained on the flashlights. Many of them were already in the water and they were asking for help but the Chinese vessel turned off lights and sped off and left the scene.”

Sec. Pinol also added that there should be an investigation to determine if the ramming was intentional or not.

When Sec. Pinol asked Blaza if believes the ramming was intentional, Blaza said, “Sir, maaring hindi kami nakita”.

Blaza also told reporters, “May kabilisan ang takbo niya, kaya ginisig ko na si kapitan at mga tao. Pinaggigising ko na ang mga kasama ko na mahahagip kami.”

May kabilisan ang takbo niya, kaya ginising ko na si kapitan at mga tao. Pinaggigising ko na ang mga kasama ko na mahahagip kami,

Four other crew confirmed his story:

Cirilo Escuterio: “Sumigaw ‘yung kasama namin na, ‘Oy, gumising kayo, may barkong parating at babanggain tayo.’ Sabay takbo sa loob ng higaan ng kapitan, sabay sabi, ‘Kap, start mo makina babanggain tayo ng barko.”

Joven Jacinto: “Noong nagsigawan na ang mga kasamahan ko, nakagising na ako. Pagmulat ng mata ko, nagsisigawan, nagtatakbuhan, naglundag na rin ako.”

Antonio Torres Jr: “Nagising ako, may sumisigaw, ‘Barko, barko, mababangga tayo ng barko.’ Bigla ako bumangon…tumakbo ako pababa, pagtingin ko pabangga na ‘yung barko sa hulihan namin.”

JP Gordiones: “Nasa loob ako ng kamarote, nakarinig lang po ako ng sigaw, sabi niya may barko na babangga, tumakbo po ako sa unahan.”-Rappler.com

In other news, Gem Ver 1 skipper Junel Insigne said he is saddened by President Duterte’s statement referring to their experience in Recto Bank.

“Nalulungkot po ako dun sa sinabi ni Presidente, na banggaan lang daw. Parang balewala lang sa kanya yung ganun. Dahil wala sigurong namatay kaya parang balewala lang. Paano po kung namatay kaming lahat?”, Insigne lamented.

Later in the afternoon, when Insigne learned the result of Richard Blaza’s meeting with Sec. Pinol, he defended still his side of the story. It is to be remembered that Blaza told Sec. Pinol,“Sir, maaring hindi kami nakita”.

Says Insigne, “May ilaw kami sa hulihan, doon po sa may taas ng amorote. Tsaka sa unahan may ilaw. Tsaka bago po yung battery namin. Maliwanag po yun. Kahit na milya o lima, kita po yan eh. Yan na nga ang sinasabi ko sa kanya eh. Baka pagdating nya doon iba-iba ang ang ano nya eh.”

Insigne’s claim was supported by one of his crew Marlon Roldan.

“Maliwanag talaga yung ilaw namin sa hulihan at sa unahan, dun sa gitna, May flasher pa nga”, Marlon Roldan said.

“Kitang-kita ko malakas talaga ang ilaw namin”, Limuel Gregorio added.

Aside from Insigne, Roldan, and Gregorio, Sen. Panfilo Lacson and Sen. Frank Drilon were also “broken hearted” with President Duterte’s statements.

Senator Panfilo Lacson. Photo from Senate of the Philippines Facebook.

Says Sen. Lacson, “The President broke his silence and left us heartbroken. He forgot to explore all resources available before exercising his last option of surrender. The MDT is one yet untapped weapon. I am not suggesting World War 3, but at least it can make China feel the balance of power in the West Philippine Sea.”

Sen. Drilon on the other hand said, “Let us not muddle the issue. Whether the ramming was intentional or accidental, what is in issue, and what is clear and admitted, is that the Chinese boat captain abandoned the Philippine fishermen in distress at sea. This violates China’s obligation under the UNCLOS to rescue those in distress at sea. This is the issue that should be addressed and the basis of China’s liability under international law and the UNCLOS”.

Senator Frank Drilon. Photo from Senate of the Philippines Facebook.

“The claim of Chinese Embassy that the Chinese boat left because of fear of being besieged by Ph boats in the vicinity is baloney and an outright and malicious lie. If there were indeed Philippine fishing boats in the vicinity, why did it take a Vietnamese vessel to rescue the 22 Filipinos in distress? And at least one hour after the incident?”, Drilon added.

Senator Laila De Lima. Photo from Senate of the Philippines.

From her detention cell, Sen. Laila De Lima also sent her take on the issue, saying that “Our very own leaders assaulting our very dignity as a people! Kaya pa ba natin ito? Ano pa ba dapat mangyari para matauhan na ang marami sa atin? Sampal ito sa kanilang mga itinuturing natin na mga pinuno”.

Meanwhile, in Rappler’s phone interview and text replies, Fe Dela Torre, the wife Felix Dela Torre, said she it appears to her that the government is finding it hard to accept their story.

She said, ” Ipilit man po natin sa kanila ang katotohanan, mismong sila ang gumagawa ng lusot para maging mali kami. Bulag at bingi sila pagdating sa ating mga Pilipino. Hindi namin alam kung kinakampihan pa kami. Parang walang paninindigang maipagtanggol pa ba kami, maipaglaban pa po ba kami. Sa amin okay na rin sana na maayos, maibalik lang sa aming tamang hanapbuhay, pero yung isyu nila na sinasabihan na ng totoo pero hindi naniniwala – yun po yung masakit doon. Kung hindi sila umalerto, paano sila nakaligtas? Buhay ang pinag-uusapan. Alangan namang gusto ni Richard na sya lang ang makaligtas”.

  June 19, 2019. Along with his crew, Gem Ver 1 Captain Junel Insigne changed tune and back pedalled his story after a 25-minute closed-door meeting with Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol in his residence at San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. The meeting was accompanied with the presence of Philippine National Police’s Crowd Dispersal Unit in full battle gear.

Here are Junel Insigne’s statements in a press conference that followed after his meeting with Secretary Pinol:

“Naguguluhan po ako dahil, parang, pag-ano ko po, hindi ko po naano kung talagang bangga na po eh. Masama lang po talaga ang loob ko dahil iniwan po kami.. Humihingi din po ako ng paumanhin sa ating mahal na Presidente na hindi po pala ako pinatawag nya. Kundi po si Secretary Pinol po ang nagpatawag sa amin. Hindi po ako natuloy, umatras po ako, dahil masama po ang pakiramdam ko. Bilang Kapitan po, ang gusto ko po mapanagot po yung kapitan po ng.. yung lang po ang hihilingin ko sa ating mahal na Presidente.”

Insigne also asked for the government to take actions to make sure that only Filipinos shall be allowed to fish at Recto Bank.

According to GMA News, if there were any credible witness to the incident, it would be Richard Blaza, Gem Ver 1’s cook who is awake before the incident. He said, “Hindi ko po masasabi kung sinadya nila o ano, o aksidente lang.”

Secretary Pinol also offered some clarifications: He said, “I would like to qualify ha. Kasi baka parang lumalabas dito parang nagdedepensa kami. No. We would like everything to come out in the open. The truth. We are not, we are not slaves to anybody. We denounce the act of the Chinese vessel in abandoning the fishermen in distress. Under International Maritime Laws, that is illegal. Under human law, that is immoral.”

Sec. Pinol added, “..It put the President in a bad light. Para bang inisnab niya ang Presidente, eh wala naman invitation talaga. So hindi totoo yung balita na mayroong imbitasyon ang Pangulo na makipagusap sa kanila. This was a manufactured statement, By whom? I don’t know. Insigne admitted na medyo may mga statement siya na ayon sa kanya hindi niya alam na nasabi niya.”

After the press conference, together with Usec. Eduardo B. Gongona and BFAR Regional Director Elizer S. Salilig, Secretary Pinol handed to fishermen the government assistance consisting of 12 fiberglass reinforced plastic boats with engine, bottom-set gill nets, hook and lines, life vests and a sack of rice. It also included P45,000.00 (P25,000.00 from DA Agricultural Credit Policy Council as emergency cash assistance, P10,000.00 from DSWD plus scholarships for their children and two food packs, and P10,000.00 from Sec. Cusi of DOE and CORDS Region IV-B), plus livelihood projects from the Department of Agriculture Regional Office and DA-BFAR MIMAROPA.

Congresswoman Josephine Ramirez-Sato. Photo from Cong. Sato’ Facebook.

Concurrently, in her Facebook account, Congresswoman Josephine Ramirez-Sato of the Lone District of Occidental Mindoro repeated the fact that Recto Bank is within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines which should be protected for Filipino fishermen.

“Ang Recto Bank ay Exclusive Economic Zone ng Pilipinas. Dapat iyan ay reserved para sa ating  mangingisda at sa ating mga kababayan”, she said.

She also echoed her sentiments that she is embracing the welfare of fishermen.

“Buo po ang ating suporta sa aming mga mangingisda. Kaya’t kasama po nila kami sa paghiling na magkaroon, sa lalong madaling panahon, ing impartial marine inquiry. Ang pinoprotektahan natin dito ay ang interes ng ating mangingisda at interes po ng ating bansa”, she added.

In other development, National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also changed his stand on the issue. In a report by ABS CBN News, he said he now believes that Chinese vessel did not intentionally ram Gem Ver 1 based on new evidences presented by the circumstances. He however remains firm in condemning Chinese vessel abandoning the 22 fishermen in need of help. Secretary Lorenzana also shared that it was agreed upon in the Cabinet meeting that only Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles are auhtorized to speak to the public regarding the issue.

  June 20, 2019. China calls for joint-investigation on the Recto Bank ramming incident between Chinese and Filipino fishing boat. The call was made by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang in Beijing.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang. Photo from TNS World.

Lu Kang said China “attaches great importance to friendly relations with the Philippines and safety of personnel at sea, regardless of nationality. We will continue to investigate the incident thoroughly and communicate with the Philippine side via bilateral channels”.

“To find a proper solution, we suggest a joint investigation at an early date so the two sides can exchange respective initial findings and properly handle the matter through friendly consultations based on mutually-recognized investigation results”, Lu Kang added in a press conference.

To find a proper solution, we suggest a joint investigation at an early date so the two sides can exchange respective initial findings and properly handle the matter through friendly consultations based on mutually-recognized investigation results.”

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra also made the same proposition with China hoping that “this could be done jointly with the Chinese side, so whatever facts would be established would be mutually acceptable.

Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra. Photo from PTV News.

  June 21, 2019. While Sec. Guevarra and Presidential Spokesperson Panelo, along with President Duterte is open to joint-inquiry, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin is not in the same boat with them.

Sec. Locsin strongly dismissed the proposal with a tweet reacting to an ANC News interview with international affairs analyst Aaron Jed Rabena who suggested that “China should allow access to interview their fishermen or vice versa” in case the joint investigation pushes through.

In his tweet, Sec. Locsin said, “Who the fuck is this guy?“.

  Sec. Teddy Locsin’s tweet on Rabena’s ANC News interview. June 21, 2019.

According to his Linkedin account, Rabena received his PhD in International Relations from Shandong University in China. His area of interest include strategic studies, geopolitics, East Asian international relations, political risk, Chinese politics and foreign policy. He previously served as Senior Lecturer at the Asian /center in Up and was a Visiting Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing. He is also an alumnus of the East-West Center in the US.

The same idea did not sit well with former Former Affairs Secretary Albert Del Romulo.

Albert Del Rosario’s statement posted by News5.

“Can we please not insult the intelligence of our people?”, Del Rosario added.

Hours later after issuing his statement, Del Rosario was held by authorities at Hong Kong International Airport. He was travelling to Hong Kong on a diplomatic passport for a board meeting.

His lawyer, Atty. Ann Marie Corominas, confirmed this with Philstar.com. It is still not clear however why Del Rosario was denied entry.

Vice President Leni Robredo with San Jose, Occidental Mindoro Mayor Muloy Festin and Gem Ver 1 crew. Photo from LGU San Jose, Occidental Mindoro PR Team Facebook page.

Meanwhile, Vice President Leni Robredo visited the fishermen to listen to their story. She first talked with crew members at the house of boat owner Felix Dela Torre in San Roque, then proceeded to see Junel Insigne.

According to GMA News Online, VP Robredo gave each crew P50,000.00 which was tapped from Office of the Vice President’s Angat Buhay Program.

Simultaneously, Congresswoman Josephine Ramirez-Sato continue to make a stand for Occidental Mindoro fishermen since she became aware of their plight in Recto Bank.

“We, the constituents of Occidental Mindoro are supporting the the cause of our fishermen. And we are asking that marine inquiry be held at the soonest time possible, just like what our local fishermen really want”, she said.

In a media briefing at San Jose, Occidental Mindoro after VP Robredo’s dialogue with fishermen, Cong. Ramirez-Sato accentuated the need for more patrol boats. She said the Province of Occidental Mindoro does not have enough equipment to protect and defend the fishermen.

Living up to her moniker as Tiger Lady of House of Representatives, Cong. Ramirez-Sato flagged down China’s attempt for a joint-investigation.

“We will not allow China to initiate any probe on the matter”, she resolutely told everyone in the media briefing.

In spite of everything that Occidental Mindoro fishermen went through, Cong. Ramirez-Sato remains adamant in throwing her support for them.

“We stand squarely behind our fishermen. Not only for Occidental Mindoro, but for the whole Philippines. Our fishermen will be telling all the moment they are summoned and allowed to testify in the inquiry”, she added.

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      PUNTO MINDORO | The Saga of Occidental Mindoro’s 22 fishermen and Gem Ver 1: Timeline of events June 21, 2019 | DTP In the last couple of days, the story of Occidental Mindoro's 22 fishermen from the Municipality of San Jose sold like hot cakes in social and mass media.

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SECS/GEM, GEM300, Smart Factory & Industry 4.0

SECS (SEMI Equipment Communication Standards) and GEM (Generic Model For Communications and Control Of Manufacturing Equipment) standard is published and maintained by SEMI.org, an international organization of semiconductor manufacturers, is an organization body that governs the standard for semiconductor manufacturing.

It is the main communication protocol used in automation for (initially) semiconductor/electronics industries, however, today it has been widely adopted in photovoltaic and SMT industries too.

It provides a communication interface between equipments and host systems.

Unlike other communication protocol like PLC, it enable equipments from variety of vendors to communicate using standard and consistent protocol with various type of Host systems.

To understand the SECS/GEM standards you will need to purchase the following 3 basic standards from SEMI: 

SEMI E30 GEM Standard – This is the “Brain” that defines the behaviours of equipment (Business Rules), state machine and some rules like which SECS-II messages should be used, in what situations, and what the resulting activity should be. It also defines the functionalities like Status Data Collections, Trace Data Collection, Alarms Management, Spooling, Remote Command, etc.

SEMI E5 SECS-II – Defines the details of the interpretation of messages (APIs) exchanged between equipment a host. It also defines message inputs/outputs data structure, data item format, acknowledgement codes, etc.

SEMI E37 HSMS – High Speed SECS Message Services. This is a transport layer based on TCP/IP protocol and a successor of the previous SEMI E4 SECS-I standard that is based on serial communication. This is also the layer where the SECS-II messages are encoded into HSMS message format.

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[ WORLD SECURITY COUNCIL CLASSIFIED ASSET DEPLOYMENT ORDER ] [ DISTRIBUTION: RESTRICTED (AD-HOC CODE CLEARANCE REQUIRED) ] [ RECIPIENT(S): tony@starkindustries.com ] [ DATE: 29 APRIL 2017 ] [ ORIGINAL: ENGLISH // TRANSLATION: NONE // ENCRYPTION: OMEGA-13 PROTOCOL ] [ AUTO DELETION: YES // 12-HOUR ] [ DOCUMENT ID: WSC/C.A/SEC/7102 ]

Mr. Stark:

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, the World Security Council has voted to deploy S.H.I.E.L.D. Technical Asset #0862U as part of this Council’s continued effort to safely, effectively enforce the ACCORDS.

As spearhead of the original project involving Article L097VE ( ‘The Mind Gem’ ), you have been selected to oversee the Asset’s defensive actions, and will report directly back to the Council with quantitative data regarding the Asset’s success.  Please bear in mind that at present, this Order is CLASSIFIED, and will remain so until such time that this Council chooses to release any details pertaining to your involvement, Asset #0862U, or the World Security Council’s ACCORDS enforcement effort.

Furthermore, considering the Asset’s provisional status and as-yet-undetermined usage protocols, at present this Council has elected to maintain full control of any ongoing efforts concerning Asset #0862U.  To that end, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Directorate is not to be involved, and will be updated if necessary by this Council.

Please address any concerns directly to the World Security Council, following the customary encryption protocols.  We anticipate your first field report within five business days.

Sincerely,

Maria Hill Secretary, World Security Council

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The ICO Expert and Community Rating Ecosystem

The ICO Expert and Community Rating Ecosystem

By Andrew Ly

In the stock market, initial public offerings are risky investments. For the first time, companies are listing themselves as available to the general public. Consequently, multiple resources are made available. Ordinary investors can access the prospectus that shows the company’s previous financial records, as well as their future plans. In addition, research firms provide expert opinions on the investment’s prospects. Finally, investors go through a broker, who is also able to give them advice.

For cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings (ICOs) function in the same capital-raising way. However, as the currency does not yet exist, the project can provide no historical performance. The company can only offer whitepapers, which describe their technological platform, as well as the credentials of the management team. Thus, the opinions of experts become increasingly important, as well as reviews from community resources.

To add to the general precariousness of this nascent market, a study published in February 2018 by TokenData found that 46% of cryptocurrencies with a 2017 ICO had already failed. And a different study from ICORating found that although 827 ICOs raised $8.3 million USD in Q2 2018, 55% of them have also failed. Possible explanations for this high rate include a declining quality of projects, more competition for limited funds, greater regulatory pressures, and market fears following Bitcoin’s price plunge.

With the current state of ICOs, it has never been more important to have sound advice from trusted advisors. Yet, how does an investor trust that the reviews and ratings coming from experts and the community are accurate, unbiased, and authentic?

Irrelevant Reviews

When assessing an ICO, many expert review sites consider social media indicators, which include a cryptocurrency’s followers, likes, and retweets. Although these statistics can suggest an ICO’s market penetration, they do not necessarily correlate to a positive assessment of a project’s technology or business strategy. In addition, there are many ways in which a positive social media presence can be manufactured or outright purchased.

Centra, which has now rebranded itself as Phantom, raised $32 million USD in October 2017. Only six months after their ICO, however, the founders were found guilty on charges of wire fraud and securities fraud. The project’s business plan utilised prepaid credit cards, but it was discovered that Visa and MasterCard had no agreements with the company. In addition, biographies of the management team were found to be fabricated and marketing materials were deemed false and misleading.

One of Centra’s social media tactics was to pay celebrities, including Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled, for public endorsements, which gave the project an air of legitimacy. Although most experts saw through this show and gave Centra a low rating or marked it as a potential scam, the expert review platform ICOMarks gave the project a rating of 6/10, based heavily upon their strong social media activity. Thus, expert review systems are susceptible to sophisticated and fraudulent marketing schemes.

Lack of Reviews

Considering the flaws in expert reviews, ICO investors may turn to community review platforms, which include Cryptorated, Ignite Ratings, and ICOPicker. Although there is no guarantee that the opinions stated on these forums come from knowledgeable sources, there is the promise that the crowd will — in the aggregate — come to an accurate consensus, or at least be able to provide arguments on both sides. Consequently, a useful community review platform requires a minimum volume of users and opinions. These sites, however, are often depopulated, with listings for many cryptocurrencies and ICOs left empty and unreviewed. Centra, for example, is either unavailable on these sites or has a listing with no reviews.

Perhaps the lack of community discussion stems from low general interest in Centra. If that were the case, then a more famous or popular cryptocurrency should garner more feedback. In July 2017, Tezos raised $232 million USD in the largest ICO ever at the time. The cryptocurrency was touted as a “self-amending blockchain” with an advanced protocol that could evolve without a hard fork. In addition, Tezos was proposed as a democratised community, in which token holders could request protocol upgrades, obtain rewards for contributions, and vote on whether proposals should be approved.

After the ICO, however, internal struggles over management led to multiple lawsuits, issues with the SEC, and an almost year-long delay before tokens reached investors. Accordingly, the cryptocurrency received moderate reviews from expert review platforms, including ICOBench, TrackICO, DPRating, BloktRating, and ICOHolder. Yet even with the enormous ICO and subsequent turbulence, there are very few community ratings. On Ignite Ratings, Tezos has only three ratings with little explanation, which suggests a major issue in building a high-volume community.

Currently, the largest platform for discussion of cryptocurrencies may be Reddit, which has approximately 744,000 and 72,000 subscribers to the cryptocurrency and ICO subreddits, respectively. The website forum is famous for the anonymity of users and threads that are self-regulated by community moderators. In practice, however, moderation is rarely unbiased. The Tezos subreddit, which has more than 10,000 subscribers and several posts a day, is moderated by the founders of the company, who have the authority to remove posts as they please. In addition, anonymity opens up the forum to abuses by employees of the project, the project’s competitors, or malicious actors.

Biased Reviews

The lack of volume on community rating platforms, as well as the anonymity of users, may sway potential cryptocurrency investors to trust expert reviews for their impartiality and knowledge. Yet it can be difficult to judge whether experts are truly free from bias. They may feel the need to be overly negative about a project to demonstrate their authority in the field. Conversely, they may be bribed for positive ratings. For example, the ICO rating agency, Alethena, found that after registering an ICO on ICObench, they were immediately contacted by an expert who offered a positive review in exchange for a fee.

Although it may not always be the case that a positive review has been bought, it does lend doubt to the credibility of expert ratings. Gems is a cryptocurrency that refers to itself as a “decentralised mechanical turk.” It has also been featured on lists of the worst ICOs of 2018. The project created a following by requiring investors who wanted to be whitelisted to promote the cryptocurrency on social media. Raising $150 million USD in their ICO, they kept 75% of the tokens to themselves and lost the support of much of their community.

Despite the debacle, ICOBench features two expert reviews with an almost perfect assessment of 5/5 for the cryptocurrency. These reviews contrast to the website’s own analytics tool, which rated the project as 2.2/5. The discrepancy between these ratings highlights how enormous the potential bias of individual expert reviewers can be.

The Solution

In order to combat irrelevant, nonexistent, and biased reviews, Revain has created a blockchain-based system that ensures authentic feedback for cryptocurrencies and ICOs. First, the company establishes the veracity of reviewers by verifying that they own the coin they review. In addition, single authors cannot write multiple reviews of the same project. Once a review is written, whether positive or negative, it is committed to the blockchain and cannot be removed or altered so investors can rest assured that they are seeing the whole picture.

To maintain high-quality reviews, Revain has a two-step filtration process that uses RAF (Review Validation Automatic Filter) technology, which includes custom filters, a tone analyser, user history analysis, and AI technology from IBM’s Watson that filters out overly emotional and irrelevant reviews. In addition, the company’s platform offers tokens to users who provide thoughtful and carefully considered feedback, which should also incentivise more reviews to be written.

Once there are a significant number of reviews, Revain’s custom algorithm ranks all projects based on their popularity and readers’ impression. This system stands in contrast to many of the expert review platforms, which allow premium customers to purchase higher positions in listings for a fee. With an array of substantive positive and negative opinions, users have the ability to make up their own minds about a project’s potential.

Because there is so little information to judge an ICO, the opinions of reviewers will play a vital role in swaying potential investment decisions. Revain, unlike expert and community rating platforms, delivers the possibility that these judgments will be accurate, unbiased, and authentic.

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The Birth of an Asse

The Birth of an Asset Class: Expert Blog Expert Blog We have passed a tipping point for the evolution of Blockchain technology as the token universe moves firmly into asset class territory. The market has consistently held value in excess of $100 bln since the summer with daily volumes in excess of $4 bln The rhetoric on Bitcoin has become more measured with broader considered views and a shift in focus to the potential of the technology Every day a stream of the large global corporates announce Blockchain initiatives The sophistication level of financial products providing Blockchain asset exposure is increasing As a former senior investment banker and having spent almost two decades focused on Asian equity capital markets I am used to seeing local markets that in the broader global equity market context would seem subscale. Blockchain assets in token form represent over $170 bln in value today. The GEM market in Hong Kong (growth market) is a sub $40 bln market and several Asian countries do not have equity markets above $170 bln in total market cap. Even more instructive is the daily volume traded at $4 bln the volume of activity on many days in Blockchain assets exceeds that of some of the more mature Asian markets such as Taiwan. The institutional fiat world is taking note with the headline numbers of the market justifying attention we have seen the level of inquiry increase from blue-chip financial institutions as they begin to get up the learning curve. The wall of capital that will flow from this is still being educated but the discussions are taking a more committed tone. We are still in the very early days of this technology and it is by no means settled on what the core lower level protocols will look like but with the promise of interoperability we should end up with a multi-winner landscape subject to specific use cases. Regulations The ICO market has rightly begun to struggle. The early days have been characterized by generally weak governance standards and poorly conceived offering structures. There are notable exceptions but even the quality issuers have been taking advantage of the market momentum to stretch rights obligations and terms. A cleaning up and raising of standards is inevitable as the market moves to a more discerning view of what has value. Regulation has a part to play here. Sensible regulation is essential to the asset class and frameworks applied correctly will help to drive institutional adoption. There will be volatility as regulators find their feet but globally we have seen in general constructive views on regulation from the US SEC and many regulators have followed their lead. Those issuers that have been disguising equity offerings in ICO form will not survive. Even when an offering is clearly not a security regulator and legal frameworks globally should provide customary consumer protection while maintaining a balance not to over regulate. The countries with capital control challenges will in the short term have the tightest form of regulation but this is a prelude to sovereign adoption rather than an attempt to shut down the technology. Security We will of course have bumps in the road and each asset class as it develops faces significant setbacks Blockchain assets will not be different. Importantly though the speed of adoption and integration could be unprecedented given the security benefits afforded by the technology. The banks and other trusted intermediaries (see Equifax) have been unable to secure single point databases with security breaches occurring daily at some of the largest and most trusted institutions. Currently public Blockchains provide us with scale solution to security and the recent upgrade of the Ethereum protocol is instructive in enabling an à la carte privacy solution on public Blockchains. We are already seeing governments beginning to adopt the technology and security is a key driver. For a sub $200 bln industry we have had a huge amount of commentary from senior business leaders some have demonstrated a lack of knowledge and depth in understanding. More still have demonstrated they are bound by a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to protect their revenue stream. It is notable that the considered comments on the tech from Christine Lagarde and others have tipped the balance back into a more positive discourse. There are of course challenges with Bitcoin which are well documented but we are moving beyond casual rhetoric that its primary use is to facilitate money laundering and has no utility. The global banks have paid more in fines since the financial crises than the total value of global Blockchain technologies. The utility for the global under-banked who possess smartphones and no way to enter the existing financial system is defining. The more interesting story and corporate public discussion are turning around the technology itself and the 40% of the Blockchain asset market which is not Bitcoin. Although still early it is clear that much of the margin in the financial [and other] industries will be significantly reduced as transparency and direct access prove materially advantageous to clients. A young market The market will have substantive non-trivial issues in all these areas but growing pains are just that and we are at the point where the broader focus needs to be on practical integration and adoption. We are witnessing the start of a move from a state of corporate capitalism to an increasing skew towards individual capitalism. The democratization of finance as well as other industries is upon us and tectonic shifts are being felt. As we embrace the new we need to take the R&D from fiat capital markets that have flourished for decades learn and take the best parts of these forward into a more equitable and transparent future. In concert the existing oligopolies will need to resize businesses and adjust business models and it is this interplay which will define the breadth and speed of the development of the asset class. Ronnie Potel is a co-founder of Bletchley Park Asset Management and Radian Blockchain Ventures and has 20 years of experience in financial markets. Previously he was a co-head of Asia Pacific equity capital markets at Morgan Stanley. Follow us on Facebook

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Ignore the State’s Coming Blockchain Grab. Be Happy Libertarians

A May 30tharticle in the Atlantic declared, “Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism. Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.” 

Also read: SEC Eyes Initial Coin Offerings for Regulatory Oversight

The article distorts important points but it raises a valid concern. Namely, bitcoin and the blockchain have “attracted banks, governments, and corporations.” A digital currency under their control could be a stride toward a cashless society in which all white market transactions are tracked by avaricious banks, states and corporations. It could usher in unprecedented financial control.

No wonder savvy politicians like Putin are fascinated by cryptocurrencies…that is, as long as the stumbling block of pseudonymity can be removed. Putin has been meeting with the founder of Ethereum with the reported goal of making some form of ether Russia’s national cryptocurrency. Statists have awoken to the power of the blockchain which would make their usurpation of money and power more efficient.

Cryptocurrencies allow individuals to sidestep the state. Can states also use them to impose economic and social control on individuals? To some degree, of course they can. Technology is extremely adaptable. But converting bitcoin into a tool of the state encounters a stiff barrier. Government-issued currency (fiat) and the institutions attending it (central banks) are designed to serve the state and social control. Bitcoin is designed to serve individuals and freedom. The “square block in a round hole” problem arises.

Distortions within the article

The article’s main distortions should be addressed in order to set context.

The problem ascribed to Bitcoin is nothing new. Almost all technology can increase both individual freedom and state control. The printing press decentralized ideas and truth but the state used it to mass produce propaganda. Guns give individuals direct control over self-defense but the state used them to compel obedience. In most cases, the benefit to individuals far outweighs the benefit to the state.

The original developer and coders of Bitcoin were anarchists. They did not seek “to decentralize government,” as the Atlantic article states, but to render it irrelevant. The irrelevance of the state was designed into the core of Bitcoin’s protocol. Eliminating “both nation-states and corporations” may be impossible, as the article suggests, but this is not the goal of Bitcoin. Instead, it is a practical strategy or tool by which individuals can eliminate the need for states and corporations.

The Atlantic seems to assume that a currency is a currency is a currency. They all perform the same function. In one sense, that’s true. A free-market currency is an economic tool of exchange and anything people accept for goods and services is valid: sea shells, tulips, gems, commodities, metals, shark teeth… As an economist friend states, “If a dog eats it, it’s dog food.” Generally speaking, however, a ‘good’ currency has several characteristics including wide acceptance, low-to-no inflation, divisibility and durability. But the exchanging individuals remain the sole arbitrators of what is currency, good or poor.

Outside a free-market context, however, not all currencies perform the same function.

Whom Does Fiat Serve and How?

Statist goals are built into the dynamic of fiat currency. Fiat is currency issued by a central authority that artificially and unilaterally increases its volume at will. The inflation reduces the value of every unit of fiat in circulation and gradually increases the cost of goods. The first ones to receive the additional currency – that is, the state, the banks, the elite – benefit because prices have not yet responded by rising. Those who are last – the average person – suffers by having his wealth diluted even as his costs rise.

The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. Satoshi Nakamoto said:

The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.

Fiat is a poor currency for most individuals because it includes hidden ‘fees’ such as inflation. To ensure that fiat is preferred, therefore, the state declares a monopoly on the issuance and validity of currency. Competition is either prohibited or absorbed through regulation.

Monopoly and inflation are common features of a currency that serves the state. Other common aspects include:

Little to no transparency, as reflected in refusing to audit the Fed.

A push for total transparency of those who use the system.

Extreme centralization of monetary supply and policy.

Few brakes on support for financial cronies, as in Obama’s bank bail-out.

Currency value – that is, interest rates – set by bureaucrats.

No accountability as the dearth of financial elites in prison proves.

Whom Does Bitcoin Serve and How?

Bitcoin was designed as a protocol and a transfer mechanism that allows individuals to avoid “trusted” third parties, such as central banks. Instead, individuals deal directly with each other in a manner similar to barter but which also preserves the advantages of currency. Bitcoin empowers and liberates individuals who no longer require the ‘services’ of the state. In short, it serves the individual.

The key features of bitcoin are antithetical to those of state currency. They include:

The absence of monopoly.

No inflation of the currency supply.

Transparency with an open ledger and open source.

Pseudonymity for users.

Extreme decentralization of use.

Associated institutions supported on a voluntary, individual basis.

A free market currency value.

Dramatically reduced need for accountability.

For the blockchain to truly serve the state, its current dynamic must morph into its mirror opposite.

Conclusion

Central banks exist to regulate the flow of money and financial information in order to benefit the state and themselves at the expense of individuals. They want to preserve the status quo while exploiting the advantages of blockchains and digital currencies. Only time and real-world applications will show whether a freedom tool can be used to strengthen statism, and to what extent.

Two central banking policies will be emphasized in the attempt to usurp Bitcoin: the claim of monopoly and the stripping of privacy from users. Monopoly will be enforced by regulation and by privileges extended to the compliant while harsh punishments confront the non-compliant. Privacy is likely to be stripped away by exchanges that mimic central banks and by smart money. The latter is digital currency that can be used in transactions only if specific embedded conditions are met. One condition will probably be the full disclosure of users’ identities and details of their transactions. This will give central banks control of assets and information flow, taking it from individuals. Traditional peer-to-peer exchanges will be pushed toward gray or black markets.

A confrontation between freedom and statism in this area may seem inevitable. The financial commentator Zero Hedge explained ‘why’. “Bitcoin’s success has promoted the conversation as to how central banks can keep up, and take advantage of the technology in order to keep their monetary games going and further kicking the ‘fiat currency can’ down the road. Central banks now want in on their own adulterated version of blockchain. It seems they have realized that they must embrace it in order to prevent their own demise.”

The secret to short circuiting the state’s usurpation may be to avoid the confrontation; after all, the state is likely to win. Ignore it instead. To the extent possible, pursue the original intent of Satoshi. Render the state irrelevant by finding ways to not need its services, to not need its presence in your life.

Are you prepared for governments to try to usurp blockchain technology? What is your plan of action or defense? Share your thoughts below!

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In the dynamic world of semiconductor manufacturing, ensuring that legacy equipment can keep up with modern communication standards is essential for maintaining productivity and efficiency. The Canon MPA 600 Super Aligner, a widely used piece of equipment in semiconductor fabs, often lacks the native SECS/GEM capabilities required for seamless integration into contemporary manufacturing systems. Enter EIGEMBox, a patented, plug-and-play solution that brings SECS/GEM compliance to legacy equipment without the need for extensive hardware or software installations.

In this blog, we will explore the benefits of using EIGEMBox to enable SECS/GEM on the Canon MPA 600 Super Aligner and how this can revolutionize your manufacturing process.

What is SECS/GEM?

SECS/GEM (SEMI Equipment Communications Standard/Generic Equipment Model) is a set of protocols developed by SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) to standardize communication between semiconductor manufacturing equipment and host systems. These protocols are critical for enabling automation, real-time data collection, and equipment control, which are essential for the efficiency and productivity of modern semiconductor fabs.

The Importance of SECS/GEM Compliance SECS/GEM compliance offers several significant benefits for semiconductor manufacturing: Automation: SECS/GEM protocols enable the automation of equipment operations, reducing the need for manual intervention and minimizing the risk of human error. This leads to higher throughput and more consistent production quality.

Data Collection and Analysis: SECS/GEM allows for real-time data collection from equipment, which can be analyzed to monitor performance, optimize processes, and predict maintenance needs. This data-driven approach helps in making informed decisions that improve overall efficiency.

Equipment Control: With SECS/GEM, equipment can be controlled remotely by the host system, allowing for better coordination and scheduling of manufacturing tasks. This ensures optimal utilization of resources and reduces downtime.

Interoperability: SECS/GEM provides a standardized communication framework, ensuring that equipment from different vendors can work together seamlessly. This interoperability is crucial for maintaining a cohesive and efficient manufacturing environment.

Challenges with Legacy Equipment

While SECS/GEM offers numerous advantages, many legacy equipment like the Canon MPA 600 Super Aligner lack native SECS/GEM capabilities. Upgrading these machines to meet modern standards can be a complex and costly process, often requiring significant hardware and software modifications. This is where EIGEMBox comes into play.

Introducing EIGEMBox

EIGEMBox is an innovative, patented solution designed to bring SECS/GEM capabilities to legacy equipment without the need for additional hardware or software installations. This plug-and-play device makes it easy to upgrade older machines, ensuring they can communicate effectively with modern control systems and integrate seamlessly into automated manufacturing environments.

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Benefits of Using EIGEMBox with Canon MPA 600 Super Aligner

Upgrading the Canon MPA 600 Super Aligner with EIGEMBox offers several significant benefits:

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In the fast-paced world of semiconductor manufacturing, seamless communication between equipment and control systems is vital for achieving high operational efficiency. SECS/GEM—the Semiconductor Equipment Communication Standard and Generic Equipment Model—is the cornerstone protocol enabling this level of communication. However, many Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)-provided SECS/GEM systems fail to deliver the performance and reliability manufacturers demand. If your current SECS/GEM system isn’t meeting expectations, it may be time to reevaluate your approach.

The Critical Role of SECS/GEM Systems

SECS/GEM serves as the backbone of equipment-to-host communication, ensuring that machines interact effectively with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). From automating routine processes to monitoring equipment health, SECS/GEM protocols are integral to semiconductor operations. A robust SECS/GEM

communication protocol should provide:

Real-time data exchange for actionable insights.

Seamless GEM300 compliance for advanced automation.

Reliable and efficient equipment monitoring and control.

However, many OEM-provided SECS/GEM solutions are generic by design, which can lead to limitations in customization, scalability, and performance. These limitations often manifest as delayed responses, unreliable data transfers, and restricted flexibility in adapting to specific operational needs.

Common Shortcomings of OEM SECS/GEM Systems

Limited Customization: Most OEM SECS/GEM systems are designed for general use rather than tailored for your specific manufacturing environment. This lack of customization can result in a mismatch between the system’s capabilities and your operational requirements.

Performance Issues: Generic SECS/GEM software often struggles with handling large data loads or maintaining consistent communication during peak operations. These issues can lead to unexpected downtime or operational inefficiencies.

Integration Challenges: OEM systems may lack the flexibility required for seamless SECS/GEM integration with your existing MES. This can hinder the flow of information across your manufacturing ecosystem, reducing overall productivity.

Lack of Advanced Features: Features such as predictive maintenance and comprehensive analytics—increasingly important in modern semiconductor manufacturing—are often absent or underdeveloped in OEM-provided SECS/GEM communication protocols.

Overcoming SECS/GEM System Limitations

To address these shortcomings, manufacturers can explore third-party SECS/GEM interface solutions that are specifically designed to enhance communication and operational efficiency. These systems are built with flexibility, scalability, and reliability in mind, providing an edge over standard OEM options.

Key Advantages of Upgrading Your SECS/GEM System:

Enhanced Performance: Custom SECS/GEM software solutions can handle higher data loads and deliver faster response times, ensuring reliable communication even under demanding conditions.

Greater Flexibility: Advanced SECS/GEM communication systems allow for greater customization to suit specific manufacturing needs.

Seamless GEM300 Compliance: Upgraded systems ensure adherence to GEM300 standards, facilitating advanced process automation and interoperability.

Improved Integration: Robust SECS/GEM integration capabilities simplify the connection between equipment and MES, enabling smoother operations.

Advanced Analytics: Modern SECS/GEM communication protocols often come with built-in tools for real-time data analysis and predictive maintenance, offering deeper insights into equipment performance.

Real-World Example: Transforming Operations with Upgraded SECS/GEM Systems

Consider a semiconductor manufacturer struggling with frequent communication breakdowns and operational delays due to an underperforming OEM-provided SECS/GEM system.

By deploying a custom third-party SECS/GEM communication protocol, they were able to:

Reduce downtime by 40% through reliable real-time data exchange.

Achieve seamless SECS/GEM integration with their MES, streamlining workflows.

Leverage predictive maintenance to prevent equipment failures, improving uptime.

Ensure GEM300 compliance for advanced automation capabilities.

The result? Higher operational efficiency, lower maintenance costs, and improved production yields.

If your OEM-provided SECS/GEM system is falling short in terms of performance or reliability, it’s time to explore advanced solutions. Investing in a robust SECS/GEM communication protocol tailored to your needs can significantly enhance your manufacturing capabilities. From seamless SECS/GEM integration and GEM300 compliance to predictive maintenance and real-time analytics, modern SECS/GEM systems are designed to meet the demands of today’s semiconductor industry.

Don’t let an outdated system hold you back. Upgrade your SECS/GEM interface today and unlock new levels of productivity and efficiency in your operations.

For more information on advanced SECS/GEM solutions, contact our team of experts. Let us help you achieve unparalleled performance and reliability in your manufacturing processes.

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Introduction to SECS/GEM: Revolutionizing Semiconductor Manufacturing

What is SECS/GEM?

SECS/GEM (SEMI Equipment Communications Standard/Generic Equipment Model) is a set of standards developed by SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) to facilitate communication and control in semiconductor manufacturing. It allows equipment and factory systems to interact seamlessly, enabling automated processes, real-time data collection, and precise control over manufacturing operations.

History and Evolution of SECS/GEM

The SECS/GEM standards emerged in the 1980s to address the growing complexity and automation needs in semiconductor manufacturing. Initially, SECS-I (SEMI Equipment Communications Standard 1) used RS-232 serial communication. As technology advanced, the need for faster communication led to the development of HSMS (High-Speed SECS Message Services), which utilizes TCP/IP for quicker and more reliable data transmission.

Importance of SECS/GEM in the Semiconductor Industry In the semiconductor industry, precision and efficiency are crucial. SECS/GEM ensures that equipment from different manufacturers can communicate using a standardized protocol, reducing integration time and costs. This standardization enhances productivity, minimizes downtime, and improves yield by enabling precise monitoring and control of manufacturing processes.

How SECS/GEM Enhances Equipment Communication and Control

Detailed Overview of SECS/GEM Protocols

SECS/GEM consists of two main protocols:

SECS-I (SEMI Equipment Communications Standard 1):

Uses RS-232 for serial communication.

Suitable for environments where high-speed communication is not critical.

HSMS (High-Speed SECS Message Services):

Uses TCP/IP for faster communication.

Ideal for modern manufacturing environments requiring high-speed data exchange.

GEM provides a standardized model for equipment behavior, including status reporting, data collection, and control commands, making it easier to manage and integrate various equipment. Benefits of Using SECS/GEM for Equipment Communication Standardization: Facilitates seamless integration of equipment from different vendors.

Real-Time Data Collection: Enables continuous monitoring of equipment performance and process parameters.

Enhanced Automation: Reduces manual intervention, leading to higher efficiency and productivity.

Improved Yield: Precise control and monitoring help identify and rectify issues promptly, enhancing overall yield.

Examples of SECS/GEM in Action

Wafer Fabrication: SECS/GEM is used to monitor and control processes such as etching, doping, and deposition.

Assembly and Test: Ensures that testing equipment communicates effectively with the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) to provide real-time results and feedback. Implementing SECS/GEM in Your Manufacturing Process

Steps to Integrate SECS/GEM with Existing Equipment

Assessment: Evaluate your current equipment and determine SECS/GEM compatibility.

Selection: Choose appropriate SECS/GEM software and hardware solutions.

Integration: Install and configure the SECS/GEM interfaces with your equipment and factory systems.

Testing: Conduct thorough testing to ensure proper communication and control.

Training: Provide training for staff on the new system and its functionalities.

Challenges and Solutions in SECS/GEM Implementation

Compatibility Issues: Ensure that both old and new equipment can communicate using SECS/GEM standards.

Technical Expertise: Invest in training and, if necessary, consult with experts to facilitate smooth integration.

Cost: While initial implementation might be costly, the long-term benefits in efficiency and yield outweigh these expenses.

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Introduction to SECS/GEM: Communication Interface Protocols for Semiconductor Equipment