Cascade Microtech Provides Advanced Calibration and Measurement Software for Anritsu's Vector Network Analyzers

WinCal 2006 software supports Anritsu's Lightning and Scorpion series VNAs, ensuring accurate and repeatable calibrations are easily performed and monitored 


BEAVERTON, Ore., May 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cascade Microtech (NASDAQ:CSCD), a worldwide leader in precise electrical measurements on small structures, today announced it will provide WinCal(TM) 2006 high frequency measurement system calibration software to support Anritsu's Lightning series Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) for 1-2 port calibrations and Anritsu Scorpion series VNA in 1-4 port calibrations. Next generation wireless and mobile communication products require increasingly complex, higher speed semiconductors. With this increased speed and complexity, multi-port RF measurements are required at the wafer level for design validation and yield enhancement in production. Cascade Microtech's WinCal 2006 software facilitates the development of high-speed semiconductors for mobile communications by offering an easy to use, multi-port VNA calibration tool that provides the critical accuracy enhancement and advanced calibration needed for measurements on wafers or other substrates.

"VNAs, probe stations and probe heads are all required elements for on- wafer measurements.  Probe stations are needed to secure the probe heads and to manipulate the wafer.  Anritsu VNAs provide the measurements and are compatible with Cascade Microtech's WinCal 2006, which integrates all needed pieces for a more complete customer solution.  Based on our experience, WinCal is one of the preferred solutions of our customers, and the new 2006 version only enhances that position," said Harry Momjian, Systems & Network Analyzers Marketing Manager, Anritsu. "WinCal 2006 offers seamless calibration, reduced calibration time and at the same time helps to identify operator and repeatability errors.  It is easy to use, while offering a multitude of calibration algorithms including custom ones targeting on-wafer applications. The overall benefit to the customer is more accurate and faster measurements with faster setup and calibration times.  Maintaining our compatibility with Cascade Microtech is key to our strategy of being a leader of the RF and microwave device characterization market."

Anritsu's Lightning family of VNAs encompasses a wide range of high performance tools designed to address the growing needs of defense, satellite, radar, broadband communication, and optoelectronic component markets. Complete measurement solutions to 20, 40, 50 and 65 GHz are available.

"The growing number of multi-port devices has made on-wafer calibration difficult and unreliable, increasing the possibility for error by 2 to 4 times," said Larry Dangremond, product marketing manager, Cascade Microtech. "WinCal 2006 provides 1-4 port VNA calibration and critical accuracy enhancement needed to make the most precise, repeated measurements."

Cascade Microtech has updated WinCal 2006 with new ease-of-use features. These features include guidance systems such as wizards and video tutorials for training and easing the learning curve, an event window for easier troubleshooting, user-customized preferences, monitoring tools to identify possible errors as they occur, automatic tracking of the physical elements of the system, and the ability to qualify your system before, during and after the measurement to ensure that the calibration process has not experienced drift or other errors.

WinCal 2006 also provides users with industry standard calibration methods such as SOLT, LRM or advanced algorithms such as SOLR or LRRM. Furthermore, advanced validation and monitoring allows users to save, view and manipulate calibration error terms, facilitating advanced wafer calibrations unlike any other product.

About Anritsu

Anritsu Company (http://www.us.anritsu.com/) is the American subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of innovative communications test and measurement solutions for more than 110 years. With its recent acquisition of NetTest, Anritsu provides solutions for existing and next-generation wired and wireless communication systems and operators. Anritsu products include wireless, optical, microwave/RF, and digital instruments as well as operations support systems for R&D, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance. Anritsu also provides precision microwave/RF components, optical devices, and high- speed electrical devices for communication products and systems. With offices throughout the world, Anritsu sells in over 90 countries with approximately 4,000 employees.

  For more information, please visit http://www.us.anritsu.com/.

  About Cascade Microtech


Cascade Microtech, Inc. is a worldwide leader in the precise electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures. For technology businesses and scientific institutions who need to evaluate small structures, Cascade Microtech delivers access to, and extraction of, electrical data from wafers, integrated circuits (ICs), IC packages, circuit boards and modules, MEMs, biological structures, electro-optic devices and more. Cascade Microtech's highly reliable production wafer test solutions provide the semiconductor industry with leading-edge probe cards that reduce manufacturing costs of complex semiconductors. Information about Cascade Microtech can be found on the Web at http://www.cascademicrotech.com/. 

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