(
SEMI
Equipment
Communications
Standard/
Generic
Equipment
Model) Communications protocols between a host computer and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. SECS/GEM is used to control wafer steppers, lithographic equipment, etchers, ion implanters and other machines. SECS is a layer 6 protocol that describes the content of the messages while GEM is a layer 7 application protocol that defines the messages themselves. See
OSI model.