tsmap in the browser¶

The browser version of tsmap is available at wafertools.github.io/tsmap/app/.

It uses a WebAssembly build of the same Rust parser as the desktop app. Files are parsed entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server. Parsing runs in a background Web Worker, so the interface stays responsive even while a large file loads.

Opening files¶

Click Open files to pick one or more files from your device, or drag and drop files anywhere in the window. Multiple files are loaded as a batch and merged into a single gallery, with a rename step to label each wafer.

For a large set, Filter files… scans just the header metadata of every file you pick — lot ID, part type, wafer count and so on — and shows them in a sortable, filterable table so you can load only the ones you want. Files are read a few at a time and released again, so scanning a big batch doesn't hold it all in memory.

For every STDF and ATDF file, a test selector overlay appears before parsing — pick which tests to import, then click Import. What varies with size is only whether the tests arrive already ticked: a small lot is pre-selected, while a large one starts empty so that importing everything can never be the accidental default. A Setup ▾ → Tests… entry in the toolbar lets you change your selection at any time after load.

"Upload" in the browser's own dialog¶

Scan a folder… may show a dialog headed Open file with an Upload button, then ask "Upload N files to this site?" — in Firefox and Safari, which is alarming and, for tsmap, untrue. That wording belongs to the browser and is attached to the only folder-picking mechanism those browsers offer; a page cannot change it. Nothing is uploaded: the folder is read in your browser, and no file, name, or measurement leaves the machine.

Chrome, Chromium and Edge implement a newer picker that tsmap uses instead, which asks "Let this site view files?" — a fair description of what happens next.

If you would rather verify than take our word for it, open your browser's developer tools on the Network tab and scan a folder: there are no outbound requests. Or disconnect from the network entirely and use the app offline, which works.

Try it with sample data¶

No wafer files to hand? Download one of these synthetic samples and open it in the app:

• tsmap-sample.stdf — STDF: 3 wafers, ~500 dies each, 20 tests.
• tsmap-sample.atdf — ATDF: the same dataset in ASCII form.
• tsmap-sample.csv — CSV: the same dataset; opening it shows the column-mapping overlay.
• tsmap-sample.json — JSON: the same dataset as per-die testValues.
• tsmap-sample.parquet — Parquet: the same shape (3 wafers, ~500 dies each, 20 tests), snappy-compressed; opening it shows the same column-mapping overlay as CSV/JSON.
• tsmap-correlated.stdf — STDF: 5 wafers, ~200 dies each, 30 tests with designed correlations spanning a full range of Pearson r. Open Charts to see the correlation matrix and scatter plots come to life.
• tsmap-correlated.parquet — Parquet: the same designed correlation dataset.

All seven contain no real device data — they are generated for demonstration.

Or try the live demo of opening tsmap from a link — it builds the ?dataUrl= link for each of these samples for you and opens the browser build directly, alongside the desktop tsmap:// equivalent.

Supported formats¶

All five formats are supported in the browser:

• STDF / ATDF — parsed directly from binary/text bytes via WASM
• CSV / JSON / Parquet — column mapping overlay appears before rendering; the mapping is saved per column layout and restored automatically next time. Parquet's zstd codec is desktop-only — every other codec (snappy, gzip, lz4, brotli) works in the browser too
• Gzip (.gz) — decompressed in-browser using the native DecompressionStream API
• Zip (.zip) — extracted in-browser using fflate

Differences from the desktop app¶

Browser requirements¶

Any modern browser with WebAssembly and DecompressionStream support — Chrome 80+, Firefox 113+, Safari 16.4+, Edge 80+.

Installing tsmap as an app¶

The browser build can be installed, giving it a launcher entry and its own window with no browser tabs or address bar — the same way you would use the desktop app. This is the closest thing to a package on the Linux distributions we do not ship installers for.

In Chrome, Chromium or Edge, open the app and use the install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar, or ⋮ ▸ Cast, save and share ▸ Install page as app. On Safari (macOS and iOS), use Share ▸ Add to Dock / Add to Home Screen.

Firefox on the desktop cannot install web apps. There is no install button and no way to add one — this is a deliberate Firefox decision, not something tsmap can work around. Firefox on Android can. The offline behaviour below applies in Firefox either way; only the install does not.

What installing does and does not give you¶

Installing is a convenience, not a different application. It is the same code, the same browser engine and the same sandbox, so everything in the comparison table above still applies — notably, there is still no access to native file dialogs, no remembered directory, and no file associations.

What it does change:

• It works offline. The whole application — including the parser — is cached on first visit, so it opens with no network connection. This happens whether or not you install; installing simply makes it reachable without going through a browser.
• Saved settings become durable. Column mappings, splits, bin definitions and the theme live in browser storage, which a browser is entitled to evict when it needs space. Installed apps are granted persistent storage, so they are not discarded.
• The user guide's screenshots are not part of the offline cache. The guide text works offline; its screenshots need a network connection the first time each one is shown, and may appear broken offline on a machine that has not displayed them before. The guide opens in a separate window, which browsers place outside the offline cache's reach — so this is a limitation we cannot cache our way around, not an oversight. The guide is also published in full at wafertools.github.io/tsmap/user-guide.

Updating an installed app¶

When a new version is published, tsmap shows a prompt offering to update. It never updates by itself, because updating reloads the app and the browser build cannot re-read your files — anything currently loaded would be lost. Choose Not now and it will ask again next time.

Your data is never part of this. Files you open are read in the browser and never uploaded, installed or not.

Hosting tsmap on your own server¶

The browser build is a plain static site, so you can serve it from your own intranet instead of using ours. This is the right choice when the machines that need tsmap cannot reach the public internet, or when policy says lot data must not touch an external origin.

The hosted app is now offline-capable in its own right (see Installing tsmap as an app), so this is no longer the only way to get that. It remains the stronger one: a service-worker cache belongs to one browser profile on one machine and can still be cleared, whereas a copy on your own server is reachable from every machine on the network, survives a wiped profile, and never involves wafertools.github.io at all — which is usually the point when policy is what is driving the decision.

Download tsmap-<version>-web.zip from the latest release. It is the same application published at /app/, packaged for self-hosting.

1. Unpack it into any directory your web server serves, e.g. /var/www/html/tools/tsmap/.
2. Browse to it: http://your-server/tools/tsmap/.

That is the whole procedure. There is no installer, no server-side component, no database and no build step. The bundle uses relative paths, so it works from the server root or any subdirectory, over http or https. It requests no external site at any point — installation included — and needs no cookies, no special headers and no cross-origin isolation.

Files are parsed in the browser by the same WebAssembly parser the hosted version uses, so nothing is uploaded to your server either. It only ever serves the application.

Three things that catch people out¶

.wasm must be served as application/wasm. The parser is WebAssembly; if the server sends it as text/plain or application/octet-stream the browser refuses to compile it and tsmap opens to a blank page. nginx, Apache and Python's http.server are correct out of the box. IIS is not — add the MIME type once, under Server → MIME Types → Add…, mapping the extension .wasm to application/wasm.

It must be served over http:// or https://. Opening index.html from the filesystem (a file:// URL) will not work — browsers block module scripts and web workers on that scheme. Any web server will do.

Offline use and app installation need https://. They are built on a service worker, which browsers only allow in a secure context — that means HTTPS, or http://localhost. Over plain http:// on an intranet hostname tsmap still works completely; it simply loads from the server every time and cannot be installed. If that matters, give the host a certificate (an internal CA is fine — it does not have to be publicly trusted).

Updating¶

Replace the directory's contents with a newer bundle. Nothing persists on the server; each user's preferences live in their own browser.

If you are serving over HTTPS, browsers will be holding a cached copy, so a user is not switched to the new bundle the moment you replace it: tsmap notices the new version and offers each user an update, which they accept when it suits them. That is deliberate — reloading discards whatever they currently have loaded. Expect a short tail of users on the previous version rather than an instant cut-over.

Running locally¶

git clone https://github.com/wafertools/tsmap
cd tsmap
npm install
npm run dev:web   # opens at http://localhost:5301

Requires Node 22+ and Rust (for rebuilding the WASM parser — not needed just to run the dev server).