One of the main motivations for the WAFER-STATE-SERVER is to seamlessly integrate tools from
software vendors into the institute's TCAD framework. This task is
successfully achieved by the I/O layer presented in Section 3.2. By
implementing Writer and Reader interfaces for a given file format of a
vendor the whole tool family of that vendor becomes available to the
WAFER-STATE-SERVER. Thereby a mixed operation of in-house and commercial tools is possible
without any necessary interactions (invocation of conversion tools) by the user.
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