Zygo Collaborates With Digital Surf To Launch MX Software With Mountains Advanced Contour Module

Zygo Corporation and Digital Surf have announced the release of Mx™ with Mountains® Advanced Contour. This is a new software package for users of Zygo Corporation’s range of optical profilers. Digital Surf is the creator of the Mountains software platform for image and surface analysis in microscopy and metrology. Michael Schmidt, Market Development Manager for industrial metrology at ZYGO, says, “ZYGO Mx software powers complete system control, data acquisition and analysis, including rendering interactive 3D maps, quantitative topography data, intuitive navigation, and built-in SPC for our industry-leading 3D non-contact optical products. Mx metrology software is already well known throughout the industry for its robust measurements, flexible analyses, intuitive user interface, and easy configuration of automated measurement sequences. The addition of Mountains Advanced Contour will enable customers to use the profile slices captured in Mx and calculate critical dimensions (CD) geometries such as 2D angles, profile circles, step heights, feature sizes, diameters, and distances. As products and components become smaller and smaller, such CD specifications become tighter. Combining ZYGO’s coherence scanning interferometry (Z-CSI) powered by Mx and Mountains Advanced Contour module creates a flexible and repeatable solution and serves the requirements of our customers dealing with tight CD specs.”  Christophe Mignot, CEO at Digital Surf, says, “We are excited about our collaboration with ZYGO, a company with a long and highly respected history in the optical metrology sector. Digital Surf has been devoted to developing premium software solutions for over 30 years, and Mountains® has today become the industry standard in surface and image analysis for engineers; at the core of Mountains is micro-topography, the science of studying surface texture and form in 3D at the microscopic scale. The Advanced Contour Analysis Module, which we have added to ZYGO’s Mx 9.1 release, provides advanced geometric dimensioning and tolerancing of contour profiles and horizontal contours extracted from images and surfaces.”

“Automatic dimensioning tools allow for the creation of geometrical elements (segments, arcs, circles, points, etc.) and the calculation of distances, angles, diameters, radii, etc. Profiles can be compared with CAD data in DXF format or user-defined nominal form. In addition, tolerancing tools allow users to apply pass/fail criteria and visualize them graphically. Results tables keep track of work, and visual analysis reports can be created from data and exported to pdf to share with colleagues. Finally, it is possible to automate the process by saving contour analysis steps and reapplying them to other profiles. No doubt combined with ZYGO’s Mx software, Mountains Advanced Contour module will allow users to access meaningful and useful data for a wide range of applications.” A demo version of the software will be shown at the upcoming IMTS Show on 12-17 September in Chicago (booth 13584). For more information: www.zygo.com