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Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today
introduced the V93000 Consumer Mixed Signal test solution for performing
both wafer sort and final test across a broad range of highly integrated
consumer devices. Semiconductor designers and high-volume manufacturers
are constantly striving to strike a balance between the breadth of
performance requirements and the need for effective and economical test.
This is especially true for price-sensitive consumer mixed signal
devices common in applications such as ODD (optical display devices),
DVD, DTV (digital TV) and STB (set-top boxes); these devices are
becoming increasingly integrated to include ePMIC (embedded power
management IC) and embedded flash memory. Using the most advanced test
methods to ensure the highest accuracy and test quality, the Consumer
Mixed Signal solution achieves high single-site and multi-site
throughput in both wafer sort and final test of these highly integrated
devices.
“Consumer demand for mobility and multipurpose
devices that integrate audio, video, data and telephony services are
sweeping through consumer electronics and shaping the broader
semiconductor marketplace,” said Pascal Ronde,
vice president of sales, service and support, Verigy. “At
the same time, prices for the SoCs that deliver this convergence are
dropping 30-40% per year. As a direct consequence of both exploding unit
sales and plummeting prices for such devices, manufacturers have no
choice but to respond with more multi-site test and ever-lower
cost-of-test. It is the growing need of our customers in this business
that compelled Verigy to develop the Consumer Mixed Signal solution.”
Higher levels of accuracy and DC capabilities in the test system are
required to meet the digital test requirements plus the side-by-side
testing of performance analog and power management IP cores. The need to
ensure "known good die" driven by new system-in-package (SiP) and
multi-chip packaged (MCP) packaging techniques, requires performance
test at wafer probe. With new failure mechanisms created by
manufacturing at nanometer geometries, the imperative to improve yield
is fundamental to recovering the investment in multi-billion-dollar
fabs. Cost-effective wafer-level testing has become increasingly
important to catch failures earlier in the manufacturing cycle and
improve yield.
Advanced Hardware Maximizes Scalability
Verigy incorporates the industry's highest functionality per square
centimeter onto single slot cards inserted into the V93000 test head,
for smaller tester footprint and lower cost. The Consumer Mixed Signal
solution is comprised of the following modular cards:
MB AV8 card – Multi-Band Audio-Video “a
generation ahead in analog” –
for economic flexibility through scalable number of cores and
performance ranges. This provides very high utilization through broad
application coverage, such as professional audio; baseband IQ;
broadband communications; High Definition and Standard Definition TV,
STB, DTV and DVD (BluRay and HD-DVD).
Pin Scale 400 – scalability covers majority
of test pins for consumer IC and wafer sort, and majority of
interfaces used for consumer ICs, with 100 Mbps entry level scalable
to 533+ Mbps per pin, and 224 MVectors per pin.
DC Scale VI32 – flexibility to address
multiple applications (eFLASH, ePMIC, precision voltage reference)
with a single card, scalable from 16 to 32 channels, and
pattern-triggered per channel for highest throughput.
DC Scale DPS32 – 32 channels per card for
higher multi-site, with multiple power domains and fast synchronous
triggering for improved repeatability and highest throughput.
More information can be found at www.verigy.com/go/ConsumerMXS.
Pricing and Availability
The Consumer Mixed Signal solution starts at USD $549,000, and is
available now.
About the Verigy V93000
The Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing
SoCs, system-in-packages (SIPs) and high-speed memory devices. The
V93000, now with more than 1,500 systems installed worldwide, meets the
industry’s demanding performance and cost
challenges, whether for at-speed engineering characterization or
high-volume production. The test system provides massive multi-site
capabilities, with data rates up to 12.8 Gbps and supports a full range
of digital, mixed-signal and RF applications. It provides low
cost-of-test for wireless applications such as cellular, WLAN, WiMax,
and UWB.
About Verigy
Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services advanced test
systems and solutions for the memory and system-on-chip segments of the
semiconductor industry. Verigy’s scalable
platform systems are used by leading semiconductor companies worldwide
in design validation, characterization, and high volume manufacturing
test. Formerly part of Agilent Technologies, the company began doing
business as Verigy on June 1, 2006, and completed its initial public
offering on June 13, 2006. Information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.