Modern semiconductor factories are capital-intensive, with the new generation of facilities expected to cost in excess of $2 billion each. With such costs, it is critical to design the system so that it achieves better performance, and to do so rapidly. This project is motivated by the lack of modeling tools to facilitate rapid prototyping of high-fidelity factory operation, especially addressing the realistic control logic and architecture that will operate these highly automated systems.

• Project goals are the following:
  - a realization of virtual factory concept in the application of 300mm wafer fabrication,
  - distributed, web-based simulation platform for modeling, analysis and control,
  - high degree of modeling flexibility and configurability,
  - rapid prototyping through formal discrete-event modeling and simulation.

Website: http://hifive1.isye.gatech.edu/