"AMD developed the HyperTransport Bus to speed up the way computer chips communicate with each other," said Gabriele Sartori, Director of Technology Evangelism at AMD. "But these new technologies create quality assurance testing challenges for chipmakers. We have worked closely with Teradyne to develop solutions to test our next-generation products. Teradyne's differential test solution helps enable companies to test and verify HyperTransport technology-enabled products capable of transmitting 1.6 billions bits of data per second on each pair of wires."
"AMD is confident in selecting the J973EP and its differential test option as one of the avenues for testing the HyperTransport bus," said Roger Pineiro, Director of Product / Test Engineering, AMD. "The selection of the J973EP is an extension of AMD's twenty year relationship with Teradyne that has produced leading-edge production test solutions for multiple generations of microprocessors."
"The HyperTransport(TM) Bus enables semiconductor devices to communicate with each other at an unprecedented 1.6 Gbps. This exciting new technology presented new test challenges in the area of speed, accuracy and differential signaling," said Rod Stewart, Product Marketing Manager, Teradyne. "We are pleased that AMD has selected Teradyne's J973EP inSync Differential Test Option, the ATE industry's first 1.6 Gbps differential test solution."
J973EP VLSI Test System
The J973EP with the inSync Differential Test option is the first VLSI test system to provide 1.6 Gbps differential bus test capability and the first to expand performance with a 200A Device Power Supply. The expanded performance of the J973EP with Real Time Enabling(TM) enables high-performance device manufacturers to shift between structural and full-performance test, or balance both types of test, to minimize test cost. The J973EP provides manufacturers of microprocessors, core logic, integrated processors and graphic devices with the ability to increase frequency, accuracy, timing edgesets, and pattern memory performance.
About HyperTransport(TM) Technology
AMD's HyperTransport technology is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a universal connection that is designed to reduce the number of buses within the system, provide a high-performance link for embedded applications, and enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It was developed to enable the chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 24 times faster than with existing technologies.
Compared with existing system interconnects that provide bandwidth up to 266MB/sec, HyperTransport technology's bandwidth of 6.4GB/sec represents better than a 20-fold increase in data throughput. HyperTransport technology provides an extremely fast connection that complements externally visible bus standards like the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), as well as emerging technologies like InfiniBand. HyperTransport technology is the connection that is designed to provide the bandwidth that the new InfiniBand standard requires to communicate with memory and system components inside of next-generation servers and devices that may power the backbone infrastructure of the telecom industry. HyperTransport technology is targeted primarily at the information technology and telecom industries, but any application in which high speed, low latency and scalability is necessary can potentially take advantage of HyperTransport technology.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test systems and high performance interconnection systems for the electronics, telecommunications and Internet industries. Teradyne products are used to test semiconductors, printed circuit board assemblies, telephone lines and broadband networks. Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density connectors are used in the communications and computing systems central to the Internet infrastructure. In 2000, the company had sales of $3.0 billion and year-end headcount was over 10,000 employees.
AMD, the AMD logo, and combinations thereof, and HyperTransport are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. InSync Differential Test and Real Time Enabling are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. All other product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies
“AMD is confident in selecting the J973EP and its differential test option as one of the avenues for testing the HyperTransport bus”
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