wiredinUSA January2014

The semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation has sold a V93000 Smart Scale™ platform to Avago Technologies' fiber optic products division, for use in testing optical transceiver devices. This is a new market sector for Advantest. "Winning this business shows that Advantest can provide highly productive and cost-effective test solutions for applications beyond mainstream semiconductor production," said Makoto Nakahara, senior vice president of sales for Advantest Corporation. "With the V93000 Smart Scale solution, we get all the features of a fully integrated SoC (system-on-chip) tester along with scalability at a price that is comparable with our previous solution," said Faouzi Chaahoub, senior director of FOPD for Avago. "Additionally, we have been able to achieve four times the level of Smart scale system selection

multi-site testing. We plan to move most of our high-volume production to the V93000 Smart Scale platform." The V93000 Smart Scale platformmeets Avago's requirements for a system that provides a compact footprint, flexible performance and advanced features including digital channel pins for DC testing. The scalable tester is equipped with an A-class test head, two pin scale1600digital channel cards andaVI32card, for a highly parallel, 16-site wafer-sort solution for the 28nm technology node and beyond. The system's universal per-pin architecture offers advanced capabilities for customized solutions.

wiredInUSA - January 2014

wiredInUSA - January 2014

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