Representative low-cost semiconductor test systems
-- Test & Measurement World, 11/1/2002
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| Company | Product | Description | Price |
| 3MTS San Jose, CA 408-435-1788 www.3mts.com |
3M20
LCRF |
RF-capable
configuration supports two 2.7-GHz RF port modules, each offering up to
eight RF pins; ADC channels operate to 1 Gsample/s; up to 16 of digital
I/O channels operate to 20 MHz. |
From
$200,000 |
| Agilent
Technologies Santa Clara, CA 800-452-4844 www.agilent.com |
93000
C200e |
Entry-level
model in scalable 93000 series of systems is water-cooled, accommodates
more that 1000 pins. |
$560,000
(typical) |
| Credence
Systems Fremont, CA 510-657-7400 www.credence.com |
ASL 3000RF | Mixed-signal
RFIC test system incorporates vendor's modulated vector network analysis
and features four parallel RF receivers; it accommodates up to eight RF
ports at 6 GHz and up to 64 50-MHz digital pins. |
From
$400,000
|
| Eagle
Test Systems Mundelein, IL 847-367-8282 www.eagletest.com |
ETS
Series
|
ETS 600
simultaneously supports up to 128/256 digital channels, more than 400
analog channels, and 32 RF ports. ETS 200 simultaneously supports 80
analog channels and 16 digital channels.
|
From $89,000 |
| IMS Fremont, CA 510-657-7400 www.credence.com |
Gemini MS | Engineering
validation test system for mixed-signal device debug, characterization,
and failure analysis offers 336 I/O digital pins at data rates to 330
Mbytes/s, 96 pins of analog I/O operating from DC to 2.4 GHz, and 16
independent device power supplies; additional clock channels can provide
eight clocks at up to 330 MHz. |
From
$495,000 |
| Inovys Pleasanton, CA 925-924-9110 www.inovys.com |
Ocelot |
1536-pin
production floor version and 256-pin desktop version focus on DFT test,
provide 50 MHz scan data. |
From
$300,000 for production- floor version and $50,000 for desktop model |
| Intellitech Durham, NH 603-868-7116 www.intellitech.com |
RCT
II |
Desktop
DFT silicon-debug system lets engineers construct a snapshot of IC
operation near the time of the failure from repeated scan-chain dumps,
permitting isolation of problems to the gate or RTL level. |
$35,000
to 50,000 |
| LogicVision San Jose, CA 408-453-0146 www.logicvision.com |
Validator |
For
debug of silicon based on vendor’s embedded-test technology, desktop box
has as many as four clocks operating to 330 MHz and includes two or four
power supplies operating over 0- to 8-V or 0- to 20-V ranges; it employs
an IEEE 1149.1 debug interface to a device under test. |
$150,000 |
| LTX Westwood, MA 781-461-1000 www.ltx.com |
Fusion
CX |
Low-cost
entry in vendor’s scalable Fusion family supports up to 128 digital pins
at 66 MHz; it provides 64 V/I source/measurement channels, up to 16
pulsed-power pins, and up to 16 7.5-GHz RF ports. |
From
$250,000 |
| NPTest San Jose, CA 408-586-8200 www.nptest.com |
DeFT |
Single-bay
DFT-focused tester shifts scan data at 200 MHz, offers less than 20-ps
jitter, and can deliver up to 400 A. |
From
$1000 per pin in configurations to 320 pins |
| SZ
Testsysteme Amerang, Germany +49-8075-170 www.sz-testsysteme.de |
Piranha |
Analog
and mixed-signal system supports up to 64 pins and accommodates the
vendor’s 9-GHz RF Beacon subsystem. |
From
$150,000 |
| Teradyne Boston, MA 617-482-2700 www.teradyne.com |
Integra
FLEX |
Supporting logic and memory design-for-test (DFT) techniques while also handling conventional functional test of analog and mixed-signal devices, this system incorporates an independent-instrument architecture. | Base
price: $500,000 |
| Teseda Portland, OR 503-223-3315 www.teseda.com |
Validator
500 |
Desktop
engineering tester offers an Ethernet link to an external computer; works
with vendor’s STIL-compliant DFT-Intelligent software, which imports
test patterns as well as structural information about a chip’s DFT
features. |
$60,000 |
