Magis Accelerates Time-to-Market with Teradyne`s DigitalVX

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2002--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER) announced today that Magis Networks, Inc., an advanced fabless semiconductor developer, has significantly reduced its time-to-market using DigitalVX test simulation tools for Teradyne's Catalyst System on Chip (SOC) test system. Magis and Teradyne have worked closely together to evolve the Magis semiconductor development process, resulting in Magis saving five weeks in moving its new Air5(TM) chipset from design to production.

Magis' Air5 chipset includes a wireless data and video SOC device consisting of a variety of digital and analog subsystems, including a processor core and embedded RAM. Magis began using Teradyne's DigitalVX on their test program weeks before first silicon was available. Using the actual Catalyst test program, Magis evaluated patterns targeted for characterization tests, verified pattern timing, and ensured that the characterization algorithms converged, thus realizing time-to-market benefits and guaranteeing test program quality when silicon arrived.

"Teradyne's DigitalVX was up-and-running in a matter of hours, and we were running patterns for the device the second day," said Dave Critchlow, Vice President, Engineering for Magis Networks, Inc. "When we discover a problem, we can use DigitalVX's Virtual uProbes to observe the internal state of the Device Under Test (DUT) model along with the tester stimulus and response data."

Most companies initiate the use of DigitalVX during the latter phase of test program development. However, based upon initial experience with DigitalVX, Magis incorporated DigitalVX during the design phase, which enabled its designers to obtain feedback on the functionality of their test patterns while in process thereby shortening time to market.

"We view this type of tight cooperation between design and test as crucial to the ongoing success of our customers," said Mark Kohalmy, manager of Teradyne's DFT-ET group. "The ability to bring design, test and production data together to analyze and resolve problems is becoming an essential, rather than convenient, capability."

About VX Test Simulation Software

Teradyne's VX is a powerful tool that reduces time to market and lowers capital investments. VX accomplishes this by shifting test program development and debug into the design phase of IC development and puts the power of simulation directly into the hands of the test engineer.

Simulation of the test package is controlled by running the same test program that will be used on the test system during silicon characterization and manufacturing test. Debugging the entire test package -- pre-silicon -- improves time-to-market by 50%-90%, ensuring the test program is working as soon as first silicon appears. DigitalVX software is an integral part of Teradyne's Catalyst and Tiger test systems, providing test simulation for devices designed using Verilog and VHDL.

About Magis Networks, Inc.

Magis Networks, Inc., a leader in wireless broadband semiconductors, develops products that enable wireless communication of video, audio, and TCP/IP data throughout the home and office. Products being developed by Magis support a unified 5 GHz network capable of delivering multiple streams of content simultaneously, including HDTV and Internet data, at connection speeds up to 54 Mbps. The company is funded by AOL Time Warner, Hitachi, Motorola, Panasonic, Sanyo, Vulcan Inc., Bay Partners, Crescendo Ventures, CDIB, WK Technology Fund, and Elwin Capital. For more information about Magis, please visit the company web site at www.magisnetworks.com.

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 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.

Virtual uProbes is a trademark of Teradyne, Inc., Air5 is a trademark of Magis Networks, Inc.

“The ability to bring design, test and production data together to analyze and resolve problems is becoming an essential, rather than convenient, capability.”