Abstract text

A method for affecting a creation of a recipe for processing a substrate in a processing system is provided. The method includes providing a best-know method driven recipe editor. The best-known method driven recipe editor incorporates best-known methods (BKMs), which are best practice specifications for the recipe. The method also includes creating a plurality of BKM modules based on the BKMs for the recipe. The method further includes defining rules for parameters in the plurality of BKM modules. The rules are propagated by the BKMs. The methods moreover includes creating a BKM driven recipe by employing the best-known method driven recipe editor to enter values for the parameters within the guidelines of BKM rules.