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Aurora Semiconductor Selects Eyelit's Integrated Manufacturing Execution System

WEST SIMSBURY, Conn.—Eyelit Inc., a provider of manufacturing software for visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations, recently announced that Aurora Semiconductor has selected the Eyelit MES™ suite for use in its manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg, Florida. Aurora Semiconductor is a pure-play, USA-based foundry that serves fabless companies in trusted military, industrial, medical, and micro-electromechanical (MEMS) markets.

Aurora’s multichip module (MCM) facility focuses on offering advanced, system-in-a-package fabrication and other backend semiconductor processing services for microelectronic products. The flexibility of the Eyelit MES™ suite is said to be well suited for controlling the production and packaging of Aurora’s vast array of semi-custom analog, mixed-signal, and high-voltage, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and MEMS technologies.

“Aurora is extremely pleased to have Eyelit as its manufacturing-management software provider,” said Dennis Daniels, executive vice-president of Aurora Semiconductor, in a press release. “Precision, efficiency, and complete end-to-end coordination of our manufacturing processes are essential for the level of execution we have committed to our customers. We’re confident that our partnership with Eyelit will be an essential enabler of Aurora’s success in exceeding stringent customer demands and scaling our business.”

Dan Estrada, Eyelit’s vice-president of sales and marketing, stated that “Eyelit has become the clear leader in MES software and services for U.S. manufacturers that are subject to export enforcement regulations.”

“We are proud to serve Aurora Semiconductor, and our growing customer base in the aerospace and defense industry sector,” said Estrada in the release. “Our innovative technology and wide spectrum of factory applications will provide unparalleled equipment control, manufacturing execution, and quality management from the shop floor through to supply chain execution.”

Eyelit (eyelit.com) serves customers in the aerospace and defense, discrete electronics, life sciences, medical device, semiconductor, and photovoltaic (solar) industries.

Aurora Semiconductor is a U.S. wafer foundry and semiconductor packaging company focused on technology development and processing needs of low to medium volume fabless customers. Aurora works with customers to develop, and implement into production, customized CMOS and MEMS foundry flows, multichip modules, specialized packaging, and to test for competitive advantage. Embedded deep in its values, the company reports, is a commitment to U.S. jobs and reinvestment in the U.S. economy. “Our customers benefit from the access, security, and control of ITAR and Trusted U.S. facilities,” the company stated in the release.