"The emergence of high speed ports and their migration to business and consumer applications requires both new test technology and continued attention to economics," said Brad Robbins, Vice President and General Manager of Teradyne's Industrial/Consumer Division. "To keep technology moving, Teradyne's Catalyst family uses a performance driven economics approach. Tiger's new differential pin is unique. Tester performance combined with very fast test times and economical configurations provide a time to market advantage while driving down the cost of test."
Driven by the needs of AMD's HyperTransport technology, Tiger's differential pin delivers up to 1.6 Gbps digital testing. This zero footprint option also doubles as a standard digital pin. Tiger systems with this option also function as full pin count single ended machines, improving test floor flexibility and lowering production capital cost. Finally, Tiger's digital full I/O and timing flexibility at any speed allows test engineers to use fewer pattern runs and fewer insertions to completely test the device, reducing test costs.
The new OnePin, OnePass pin electronics extends digital testing with 6-level drive, dynamic common mode, and software selectable single ended functionality on any pin. Any or all of Tiger's pins can be configured with differential capability, providing any per-program/per-device mix of 1024 single ended and 512 differential channels.
Differential digital channel card shipments will begin in October; advance work with early users is already underway.
Dynamic Common Mode
Differential signaling is used for high speed I/O ports above 500 MHz where interfering signals show up as common mode noise. Tiger differential has the unique ability (patent pending) to create and measure common mode signals at-speed. This at-speed real world test ensures outgoing device quality.
Performance without economics, however, is not enough. Tiger's Real I/O(TM) digital gives shorter test times through functional and timing margin checks in a single pattern burst. Locally stored pin setups reduce test time even further.
About Tiger
Extending the Catalyst family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM) software, and state-of-the-art analog instruments. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger sets the standard with Real I/O(TM) data rates to 1.6 Gbps. OnePin, OnePass pin electronics provide true differential and single-ended capability on each pin for one pass testing.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment and is also a leading supplier of high performance interconnection systems. Teradyne's test products are used by manufacturers of semiconductors, circuit assemblies, voice and broadband telephone networks. Teradyne's test products are used by manufacturers of semiconductors, circuit assemblies, voice and broadband telephone networks. Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density connectors are used by manufactures of communications and computing systems central to building networking infrastructure. The company had sales of $3.0 billion in 2000 and currently employs about 9000 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com.
IMAGE; OnePin, OnePass; and Real I/O are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. HyperTransport is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
“The emergence of high speed ports and their migration to business and consumer applications requires both new test technology and continued attention to economics”
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Delicious
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Digg
MySpace
Newsvine
Google Bookmark
Yahoo! Bookmark
Email
Email 
