| Improved test performance drives superior economics and time to market |
“As one of the leaders in the chipset market, we are driven to quickly develop test solutions for high speed device technologies like HyperTransport, while achieving high throughput and low cost in production”
Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) announced today that ULi Electronics Inc. (ULi), a leading developer of core logic chipsets and related host-based peripherals, has selected Teradyne's Tiger test system as the characterization and production solution for their full range of Northbridge and Southbridge chips used in personal computers.
Fabless design houses, like ULi, select the Tiger for the test system's unique combination of 3rd Generation SOC Architecture, Real I/O (TM) digital pattern generation and TwinModeTM pin electronics which deliver high throughput, economical at-speed test capability and rapid time-to-market for emerging devices. New technology device types such as multiple high-speed interface standards including AGP8x, 1Gbps DDR, HyperTransport,TM S-ATA and other LVDS and SerDes technologies are tested by Tiger.
"As one of the leaders in the chipset market, we are driven to quickly develop test solutions for high speed device technologies like HyperTransport, while achieving high throughput and low cost in production," said Mr. Alex Kuo, president of ULi, Inc. "The Tiger test system is a cost-effective production test solution. Its comprehensive set of software development tools and broad analog instrument suite, combined with Teradyne's extensive high speed interface applications expertise, provide a valuable design verification and characterization solution for ULi," concluded Mr. Kuo.
"Testing complexity is escalating rapidly as LVDS buses, DDR I/O and SerDes interfaces are rapidly being integrated onto high-performance digital parts," said Glenn Farris, marketing manager, Teradyne. "Teradyne's Tiger test system provides a compelling advantage in this very competitive market. The Tiger's TwinMode Pin Electronics, Dual Asynchronous Pattern Generators and 3rd Generation SOC Architecture combine to enable high throughput AC measurements and flexible tester configurations without loss of pin count."
About Tiger
The Catalyst Tiger is the first ATE Platform to combine next generation LVDS and SerDes production test capability in a true SOC system. Extending the Catalyst Family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM) software and state-of-the-art analog instruments and extends the Catalyst Family to 1024 digital pins. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger's TwinMode Pin Electronics set a new digital performance standard with full I/O data rates to 1.6 Gbps and configurability for single ended or differential testing, while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by chipset, graphics and network processing applications. The flexibility of Tiger allows customers to configure their system to provide complete test coverage while achieving maximum production throughput for a broad range of devices.
About ULi
ULi Electronics Inc. is a subsidiary company of ALi Corporation that focuses on the marketing and sales, R&D, and technical support for core logic chipsets and other related host-based peripherals. Together, ULi's highly experienced management and engineering teams aim to provide the PC industry with excellent quality service and innovative, feature-rich products.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is the world's largest supplier of Automatic Test Equipment, and a leading supplier of interconnection systems. The company's products deliver competitive advantage to the world's leading semiconductor, electronics, automotive and network systems companies. In 2002, Teradyne had sales of $1.22 billion, and currently employs about 6800 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com.
IMAGE and TwinMode are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc.
HyperTransport is a trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.
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