"The production of quality, high-performance test programs is one of our most important deliverables to reduce the cost of test," said Yves Destenaves, Director of the Test Assistance Group. "By standardizing our efforts using the Galaxy Optimizer, we are in a position to deliver efficient test programs to our customers in a shorter period of time."
"The semiconductor business constraints and cycles place increasing pressure on time to market and test equipment efficiency," said Philippe Lejeune, CEO of Galaxy Semiconductor. "We find it vital to combine our expertise with the leading supplier of automatic test equipment technology so that our common customers can benefit from solutions, enabling them to further improve their competitiveness."
The Galaxy Optimizer, which will be used and supported worldwide by Teradyne's TAG organization, will be the basis of TAG's test program optimization activities. The Optimizer suite significantly reduces the cost of test, through automatic and dynamic test time reduction. "Our customers are seeing a significant test time improvement on their production floors using Optimizer. This is done by applying Galaxy's patented statistical optimization and process control algorithms to the test environment while maintaining stringent correlation standards," stated Jean-Pierre Regis, Galaxy Business Development Manager. The Optimizer also provides for a run-time, dynamic optimization that further improves lot-to-lot test time efficiency. These capabilities are available exclusively for Teradyne testers as a result of this partnership.
Teradyne's TAG network of over 500 applications engineers is the test industry's largest engineering support team, with a successful history supporting diverse device technologies with the world's leading IDM, Fabless, and Subcontractor semiconductor companies. Local training facilities support TAG's customers throughout the high technology centers in Asia, Europe, and the US. Galaxy Optimizer supports Teradyne's A5 and Catalyst(TM) tester families, including the Catalyst Tiger, the first system to combine next generation LVDS and SerDes production test capability in a true SOC tester.
About Galaxy Semiconductor
Galaxy Semiconductor is an international company focused on providing software solutions to the semiconductor industry. Headquartered in Ireland, its facilities are in key locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Galaxy Semiconductor's focus is to boost the efficiency of test engineers and test equipment assets. The company's unique mix of expertise in semiconductor, industrial software and optimization techniques makes it a partner of choice for semiconductor manufacturers' test cost reduction strategies. By leveraging years of test engineering experience into innovative and patented software tools, Galaxy enables test development engineers to significantly reduce their test times in just a few hours. For further information, visit www.galaxysemi.com.
About Teradyne
Teradyne 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 backplane assemblies and high-density connectors are used by manufacturers of communications and computing systems central to building networking infrastructure. The company had sales of $1.4 billion in 2001 and currently employs about 8000 people worldwide. For more information visit www.teradyne.com.
“We find it vital to combine our expertise with the leading supplier of automatic test equipment technology so that our common customers can benefit from solutions, enabling them to further improve their competitiveness.”
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Delicious
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Digg
MySpace
Newsvine
Google Bookmark
Yahoo! Bookmark
Email
Email 
