Plater Revision 6.20 03/20 1. Added support for newer MFC-100 cards. 2. Corrected a bug when running as a 5400. When measuring a single oscillator, the software would close. 3. Corrected a bug when running as an oscillator plater since revision 6.00 in which the target frequency was being set to 0. 4. Added serial number, NVRAM revision, and PLD revision to the TTL I/O area of the About dialog. 5. Added serial number, NVRAM revision, and PLD revision for the MFC-100 card in the About dialog. Plater Revision 6.10 11/19 1. Support new combo software keys that are licensed for both XP and Windows 10. Plater Revision 6.01 10/19 1. In the last revision, clicking on the "Crystal Range Configuration" list box or selecting "Crystal Range Configuration" from the Miscellaneous menu would cause the reference CL value displayed to get changed from picoFarads to Farads. This could override the 250B reference CL depending on the selection setting. Plater Revision 6.00 09/19 1. Improved detection of configuration changes to the 250B to reset the Crystal Range Configuration settings. This was done so that the QCC file settings will not be accidentally overridden on crystal platers. 2. When the warning about Reference FR or Reference CL override appears, the CANCEL option did not close the plating dialog box. This has been corrected. Plater Revision 5.92 06/19 1. Changed menu item "Allow Checkout" to "Allow Checkout and Editing" this will also enable/disable the crystal configuration editing (both menu item and list box) in 5250S. 2. Improved handling of the INI file to prevent corruption when software crashes. 3. Allows more fixture types to be shown in the list (changed from 10 to 40). 4. Allows resizing of any file dialog menus. 5. At start of plating in 5250, detect if reference Fr or reference CL has been overwritten using crystal range configuration and alert operator. Allow operator to cancel if they do not want to use new values. Plater Revision 5.91 04/19 1. Improved the wheel reference routine in the 5250 software. Variations in the sensor and mounting hardware could cause a reference error on some equipment. The new algorithm eliminates this issue. Plater Revision 5.90 03/19 1. Added a Continuous VCC During Oven Soak option in the plater. Plater Revision 5.81 02/01/19 djr 1. Access to the 5250S and 5400S manuals was restored from the Help menu. Plater Revision 5.80 11/18 1. Added a Continuous Vcc option to provide continuous power during measurements and plating. Plater Revision 5.78 10/18 1. Support MFC-100 card again. Support has been missing since rev 5.62. Plater Revision 5.77 1. Fixed a bug in the 5400 parameters dialog that would cause the program to shut down if selected. Plater Revision 5.76 10/18 1. Added Windows 10 support for 5250, 5250S, 5400, 5400S, 12SA, Port, and Clone plating systems. Plater Revision 5.75 06/18 1. Disable measurement arm at the end of the plating run on 5510, 5511, and 5520 systems. Plater Revision 5.74 06/18 1. Corrected the 280 data and print data paths for Windows 10. Plater Revision 5.73 11/17 Release B: Corrects a problem that would not allow an update to install on Windows 10. 1. For 5520 systems with the oven power supply feature enabled, oven supply voltage soak will now occur simultaneously with pumping to high vacuum. Plater Revision 5.72 10/17 1. On 5510/5511/5520 systems with motorized arms, the system will now leave the arm up after reference. 2. Fixed a problem with Windows 10 accessing the manual in the Help menu. Plater Revision 5.71 09/17 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 5.70 09/17 1. Added Windows 10 support. 2. Added an optional oven supply voltage with soak and step voltage for the W-5520. Plater Revision 5.64 07/17 1. Corrected serial number indications on the 250B when "Allow Save Initial Measurements" is set to TRUE. Plater Revision 5.63 09/16 1. Added support for "Allow Save Initial Measurements" in INI files for all systems. 2. Corrected a problem in some systems when the above variable was set. Plater Revision 5.62 07/16 Release B: Last version did not work with older parallel port software keys. This solves that problem. Also, REFFR test type now includes plating offset. 1. Added support for PCIe TTLIO card. 2. Imporoved the Wheel menu. 3. Improved heater control for Watlow PM controllers. 4. Eliminated grid flicker during plating. Plater Revision 5.61 10/15 1. Fixed an issue which would not detect the software key on a 250B-6SA Upgrade system in some cases at start up. 2. Removed the Decrement item from the WHEEL menu on 250B-6SA Upgrade system. Plater Revision 5.60 08/15 1. The 5510 system was renamed to 5510B and a 5510A system was added to support older platers with 5XXX controllers. 2. Corrected a problem with INI skip positions when manually setting skipped positions on the grid. Plater Revision 5.54 12/14 1. Fixed a problem if no printer is installed that would cause the application to crash on startup. Plater Revision 5.53 04/14 Release B: Correct upgrade for 5.53. Release A was actually 5.51. 1. Printing grids in gray scale in last version did not work. Gray (for green) made it unreadable. Changed back to color. 2. Now using SYSTEM font for printing grids. 3. Changed spacing on pring grids so that spacing is based on text sizes for the printer. This was done to eliminate differences from printer to printer. 4. The spacing for the test type info in the grid print is now based on the width of the test type fields. 5. Added INI variable "Save Data File at End of Plating" so that the 250B QCC file will get updated with the measurements at the end of each plating run. 6. Printer selected during Print Setup will now apply to printing grids. Previous versions would only use the default printer. Plater Revision 5.52 04/14 1. Modified the Print Grid routine to print wide grids in a stack (like before) and narrow grids side by side. The routine also does a better job of positioning grids and text so they don't overlap. The routine also does a better job of scaling so that rows are not cut off. 2. Changed printed grid to black and white to reduce ink usage. Plater Revision 5.51 01/14 1. Corrected a bug that would set the crystal ID to INV for parts in pallets greater than 2. Plater Revision 5.50 04/13 1. Added a new INI variable for port platers that provides a delay after hivac is detected before plating. Plater Revision 5.45 03/13 1. Corrected a problem with the Y motor in the W-5710A. 2. Added 25X8 pallet matrix to W-5710A. Plater Revision 5.44 01/13 1. If high driving while pumping to high vac, the pre-vent variable in the INI file is now supported. 2. The pre-vent variable in the INI file is now supported even if the system is already at high vac when plate all crystals is selected. This matches the behavior of earlier revisions of this software. Plater Revision 5.43 11/12 1. Prevent selection of other operations while motor movement is occurring. This was done to prevent interruption of motion, motor slipping, and possible crashing of wipers in W-5710A SMD. 2. Fixed a problem that would cause the software to shut down in some cases after Load Filament was selected. 3. Made changes to prevent motor slipping seen in the W-5710A SMD. Plater Revision 5.42 11/12 1. Revision 5.41 disabled color changing on the pressure bar. This revision corrects that. Plater Revision 5.41 10/12 1. Added support for reverse grid in the W-5510, W-5710, W-5710A, and W-5720, the ini file was writing this option out, but it was never implemented. 2. Enabled XP look and feel. Plater Revision 5.40 05/12 1. Added support for 5710-1. Plater Revision 5.35 05/12 Release B: do not use Release A 1. Fixed a problem where W-5510 and W-5520 systems and W-6SA upgrades may have turned off both filaments when one port completed causing some parts to not get plated fully to target. Plater Revision 5.34 12/11 1. Improved plating control algorithm for the 6SA. This corrected a problem where the plating rate would decrease with each crystal in some cases. 2. Corrected a problem with the W-5250 (large/non-S) version that would not allow the heater to remain on when a plating run was cancelled. 3. Corrected a problem with the W-5520 where the CMOS/TTL and ECL load type logic was backwards. 4. Modified the reference routine for the W-5710A to make it quieter and faster. Plater Revision 5.33 08/11 Release B: Has required 250B revision. 1. The W-5710 and W-5710A will now warm and soak the filaments while measuring to save time. 2. The W-5710 and W-5710A will now handle high drive and skipped positions properly. Plater Revision 5.32 06/11 1. Fixed a display problem for the Port plater. 2. Fixed a lockup problem for the Port plater. Plater Revision 5.31 06/11 1. Modified the print grid routine for the W-5510 to reduce the space between the QC header and each of the grids to reduce the amount of paper needed. 2. Fixed heater soak not working with newer Watlow controller. Plater Revision 5.30 06/11 RELEASE C: Due to a 250B calibration file error, revision 12.23, 12.24, 12.25, and 12.26 of the 250B MUST upgrade. 1. Added support for new Watlow controller (EZ-ZONE). 2. If a heater is present and the operator cancels during the run, now allows the operator the option of leaving the heater on. Plater Revision 5.21 05/11 1. The W-5510 will re-reference every time Measure All is called from main menu. 2. In the W-5510, fixed a problem where a plating timeout would occur immediately (problem since revision 4.40). 3. In the W-5720, some parts were not being measuring correctly. Plater Revision 5.20 02/11 Release C: Corrects problem with high drive selection when MFC-100 is TTL I/O card. Release B: Improves control in some cases. 1. Added crystal heater voltage support for the 5250. Plater Revision 5.17 02/11 1. Corrected a problem with heater control restart in the event of a plating timeout. Plater Revision 5.16 01/11 1. Modified the way the heater control was handled so that very high-Q crystals could be tracked during plating. Plater Revision 5.15 10/10 1. On the W-5250 system, the edit configuration box was showing CL value when FR was selected. 2. On the W-5250 system, highdrive before plating was not handling range of crystals correctly. It was always using max number of crystals. 3. Changed the default motor speed and acceleration in the INI file for the W-5710A. 4. Added error message display if reference was not found on the W-5710A. 5. Fixed a problem when moving to the filament loading offset on the W-5710A. 6. Improved the referencing algorithm on the W-5710A. Plater Revision 5.14 10/18 1. In 12SA checkout disable all motor functions when another motor function is occurring. 2. In W-5710A, fixed failure log incorrectly formatting data with SMD system. 3. In W-5710A checkout disable all motor functions when another motor function is occurring. 4. In W-5710A, display a dialog box when moving to offsets. 5. All menus, dialogs, and screens have been formatted better for Chinese version of Windows. Fixed copyright symbol appearing as a "?". Plater Revision 5.13 10/10 1. In the W-12SA, W-5510, W-5710, and W-5710A systems, it was possible that a part that measured dead on the first pass and was, therefore, not plated, would be shown in the final pass in green with frequency 0 ppm. This has been corrected. Plater Revision 5.12 09/10 1. For 5250 platers, added password check before allowing control of heater in checkout for safety. 2. For 5250 platers, cover must now be closed before the heater will start on a plating run (for safety). 3. Fixed a problem with heater control in the W-5250 (non-S) plater. 4. Removed Skip Positions and Clear Skip Postions from W-12SA main menu. Only pallets support this feature, not wheels. 5. Fixed a problem with USB software keys for In-line plating controllers. 6. Modified motor control for W-5710 style platers. Plater Revision 5.11 08/10 1. Fixed a bug in allow multiple runs in same lot file for W-5400. 2. Fixed MeasureAll crashing in oscillator based systems. Plater Revision 5.10 08/10 1. Allow multiple runs in same lot file for W-5250/W-5250S/W-5400/W-5400S. 2. Added support for 5710A SMD plater. Plater Revision 5.00 06/10 1. In the W-5250S, added option to high drive crystals before plating cycle 1 even if no heater soak is used. 2. In the W-5710, fixed a problem with measure crystal if Pallet B had a skipped position. 3. In the W-5710, W-5710A, and W-5720, added Load Filament to checkout. 4. In the W-5710, W-5710A, and W-5720, added an INI variable to cause plating to pause and wait for operator after a certain number of consecutive failures. 5. In the W-5720, moved Skip Positions to the Miscellaneous menu. 6. In the W-5720, fixed a problem moving to the filament offset location. 7. Fixed a problem with lot file copying for oscillator platers. 8. Corrected a problem where some parts that were Dead during plating were displayed in Green at the end of the run. Plater Revision 4.94 05/10 1. Added control for right and left offset for filament loading position in the W-5710 and W-5710A. Plater Revision 4.93 04/10 1. Added the ability to limit the high drive soak time during heater soak. 2. W-5720 now disables motors when going into storage mode or loading filaments. Plater Revision 4.92 01/10 1. Improved the W-5710A process. Plater Revision 4.91 12/09 1. Changes to support the new W-5710A. Plater Revision 4.90 10/09 1. On the W-5710, the PLD revision must be 0.3 to run this revision. 2. Added support for 5710A plater. Plater Revision 4.83 10/09 Release B: Corrects a measurement speed issue as well as an error detecting the external reference standard for oscillator platers. 1. File Open was not updating the frequency in the crystal range configuration on the 5250 and 5400 platers. Plater Revision 4.82 08/09 Release B: Fixed a problem where some 250B cards coupled with certain crystals would report the wrong amplitude value for RF In at low amplitude levels (below -100 dBm). 1. Tighter control over increment and decrement in checkout in order to prevent wheel stepping from getting off. Plater Revision 4.81 08/09 1. Fixed table offset move left, move right not working on W-5710 in last release. 2. If an entire port is skipped, do not warm filaments or turn filaments on while plating. Plater Revision 4.80 08/09 1. Corrected a problem in the W-5250S with high drive during soak. 2. Added additional offset for pallet 2 in W-5510. 3. In W-5510 wafer plater, now re-reference table when moving from pallet 1 to pallet 2. 4. W-5710 was printing failures in wrong columns in the failure log when the number of crystals was less than number of pallet positions. 5. Added QC pass/fail limits to top of grid printout. Plater Revision 4.70 06/09 1. Statistics were not always visible in the main view. 2. In the 5250/5400 platers, can now wait for completion of temperature soak prior to starting any plating cycle. 3. In the 5250/5400 platers can now select high drive on any plating cycle. Plater Revision 4.60 06/09 1. Allow operator to specify when to wait for completion of temperature soak and allow high drive on any plating cycle. 2. Added calibration for wafer platers. 3. Lower arm for calibration and physical load measurements on wafer plater. 4. Added a pause button to plating on wafer plater. 5. Made MeasureAll use green for pass instead of white on a wafer plater. 6. Print grid automatically at end of MeasureAll on wafer plater if enabled. 7. Saves printer page orientation. 8. Add a confirming dialog box for physical load measurements. Plater Revision 4.50 05/09 1. New option allows a delay between plating cycles on the 5250 platers. 2. Added an ini file entry to overwrite failure log in the W-12SA plater. 3. Added a menu item to allow selection of pallet positions to skip for 5510 and 5710 platers. 4. Fixed the failure log output in the W-5710 plater. 5. This revision minimum required for new PLD for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.41 03/09 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 4.30 11/08 1. Added support for premeasurement data with "i" prefix, like W5910 for the 6SA and 12SA Controller. 2. Lot Size is now only used for the Inline Controller and only appears in that INI file. 3. A Lot file can now be stored at the end of each run if selected in ini file. 4. Added an INI variable to prompt the operator for a lot number. 5. Added an INI variable to cause the failure log to be overwritten at end of each run. Plater Revision 4.20 09/08 1. First release to include the W-5520 oscillator plating software. 2. Renamed the menu item "Tray" to "Pallet" in the W-5510 software. 3. Fixed a display problem in which "Plate All Crystals Then Increment" would clear the measurements after plating in the W-5510 software. 4. Improved the accuracy of plating target in the W-5510 software for many crystals. Plater Revision 4.17 07/08 1. 4.17B corrects a problem with high drive on port B and software key recognition. 2. Added a failures log text file automatically generated at the end of each run in the 12SA. 3. Corrected a problem that prevented calibration or measurement on port B in some systems. Plater Revision 4.16 07/08 1. Added unload file generation to 12SA/280A. 2. Corrected display on "Dead" parts in 12SA/280A. 3. Saving the pressure offset and filament offset values on the 12SA/280A and W-5710 systems. 4. Now moving the tables to the filament loading position if vent is selected at end of run to save time for operator. 5. High driving both ports at same time in W-5710 now. 6. Added a failures log text file automatically generated at the end of each run in the W-5710. 7. Now scrolling grids so that current updated position is always in view. 8. Fixed the top row in W-5510 and W-5710 systems (pallet-based) so that the column IDs are always visible when scrolling. Plater Revision 4.15 04/08 1. Increased capacity for W-5710 again. Plater Revision 4.14 04/08 1. Increased capacity for W-5710. 2. Allow adjustment of filament loading position for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.13 03/08 1. Fixed bug in previous revision that would not control some I/O ports properly. Plater Revision 4.12 02/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.11 02/08 1. Added 16x8 pallet to ini file. 2. The lot qcc file no longer has the name "Inline Data" in it. Now uses the system name. Plater Revision 4.10 02/08 1. All systems now can save qcc file based on lot size. Plater Revision 4.04 01/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.03 01/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.02 01/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.01 01/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 4.00 01/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 3.99 01/08 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 3.98 12/07 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 3.97 12/07 1. Corrected X table referencing in W-5710. Plater Revision 3.96 12/07 1. More improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 3.95 12/07 1. W-5510 will now allow the operator to enter a different number of steps for setting offset. 2. Improvements for W-5710. Plater Revision 3.94 12/07 1. Delays putting up wait for start of plating signal dialog for 3 seconds. 2. Reversed direction for X and Y tables on W-5710. Plater Revision 3.93 12/07 1. Improved throughput of the inline-controller. 2. Changed referencing sequence of W-5710. Plater Revision 3.92 10/07 1. In some cases, the W-12SA/W-280A software would leave the grid box green on a dead part. This was corrected. Plater Revision 3.91 10/07 1. Added Pass/Fail status bit to Inline Plating Controller. Plater Revision 3.90 09/07 1. Added support for 5710 plater. Plater Revision 3.81 10/07 1. Modified the Inline Plating Controller software so that the filaments only get warmed once instead of for each part. Plater Revision 3.80 08/07 1. System can now be set to vent prior to going to high vac. The INI file variable Pre-Vent sets the amount of time for the venting to last. The default is 0 seconds for no vent before high vac. Plater Revision 3.70 08/07 1. Added 12 position wheel type for 5400 systems. 2. Added a delay from start of venting to opening shutter on 12SA Controller. 3. Added Inline Crystal Plating Controller. 4. Removed a check for the low limit on plateback in the 2nd and 3rd plating pass. Plater Revision 3.60 07/07 1. Added support for older large style 5400 oscillator systems. Plater Revision 3.50 05/07 1. For 12SA controllers, added a position indicator bit to stop wheel motion when a state change occurs. Plater Revision 3.40 04/07 1. Added heated door support to plating for older W-5250 systems (large chassis). 2. Reduced speed of rotation during referencing to improve wiper life. Plater Revision 3.32 03/07 1. Added heated door support to checkout screen for older W-5250 systems (large chassis). Plater Revision 3.31 03/07 1. When plating a range of crystals on a plating system with two heads/filaments, the software will now plate the parts specified according to the head/filament they would be plated on if all crystals were being plated. Plater Revision 3.30 02/07 1. Added Highdrive capability to 12SA Controller. 2. No longer clearing the 250B or 280A measurements at the start of program. Plater Revision 3.21 12/06 1. Fixed a problem with old-style 5250 platers and the gate valve status. Plater Revision 3.20 12/06 1. Fixed a problem on the 12SA in which positions 1 and 73 would not have high drive applied. Plater Revision 3.11 11/06 1. Fixed a problem with limit checking for the plateback lower limit. Plater Revision 3.10 11/06 1. Modified 12SA to prevent plasma generation during pump down when high driving. Recommend all users upgrade. Plater Revision 3.00 11/06 1. Added foreline valve delay to INI file for 5510 systems. 1. Added support for older large style 5250. Plater Revision 2.98 10/06 1. The statistical information group was not calculating the correct number of Passed crystals. Plater Revision 2.97 09/06 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.96 06/06 1. Fixed a bug that has been in the software since revision 2.90. Now the final measurement in the final pass reports the correct (final) frequency. Plater Revision 2.95 04/06 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.94 04/06 1. Enabled cancel while wheel is referencing for 12SA Controller. Plater Revision 2.93 03/06 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.92 03/06 1. Improved performance for some high Q crystals that would otherwise measure dead on final pass of plating. Plater Revision 2.91 03/06 1. Improved interface for Unload.INI file for W-900A Unloader. Plater Revision 2.90 03/06 1. Improved performance for some high Q crystals on the 5250S. 2. Added support for the new W-900A Unloader for the 12SA. 3. Corrected a filament control problem for the W-12SA Controller. Plater Revision 2.83 02/16/06 1. Added support for pre-plating test types for all platers. Plater Revision 2.82 02/16/06 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.81 02/15/06 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.80 02/14/06 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.78 01/25/06 1. Program now remembers the state of Show Statistics when the application is closed and restores it the next time it is run. Plater Revision 2.77 12/01/05 1. Added W-12SA Controller. Plater Revision 2.76 12/09/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.75 11/18/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.74 11/04/05 1. If a plating run is cancelled, be sure motors get disabled on the W-5510 system. 2. Enabled Plate All Cycles Then Increment mode for W-5510 system. Plater Revision 2.73 10/13/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.72 10/12/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.71 10/07/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.70 09/29/05 1. Added oscillator plating for 6SA (W-6SA/280A). 2. Added oscillator plating for 12SA (W-12SA/280A). Plater Revision 2.66 08/19/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.65 08/18/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.64 08/16/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.63 08/12/05 1. Fixed a problem with the contact delay variable. Plater Revision 2.62 07/29/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.61 07/28/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.60 07/27/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.50 07/20/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.49 07/14/05 1. Removed the 144 limit on number of parts allowed in system. Plater Revision 2.48 06/16/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.47 06/14/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.46 06/08/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.45 06/07/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.44 06/06/05 1. Improved shutter control for Clone plating controller. Plater Revision 2.43 05/31/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.42 05/17/05 1. In some cases, the filaments could turn on when the program started on a Port plater. This was eliminated. Plater Revision 2.41 05/06/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.40 04/21/05 1. Added support for a dual 6SA controller. Plater Revision 2.32 03/08/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.31 01/17/05 1. No user significant change. Plater Revision 2.30 12/14/04 1. Added multiple frequency support to W-5250. 2. Added 50 position high drive wheel support.