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Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 5/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Teradyne ETS-88 is the 2010 Test Product of the Year
On April 6, the editorial staff of Test & Measurement World announced that the Teradyne ETS-88 multisite test system has been selected as the 2010 Test Product of the Year. The ETS-88, which won the 2010 Best in Test award in the Semiconductor Test category, received the most overall votes in the annual Best in Test balloting.
The Teradyne ETS-88 features a modular architecture coupled with a multithreaded operating system to provide configuration flexibility and optimized cost of test for power-management and catalog linear devices. The system, available with one to four test "quadrants," supports 32 to 128 digital pins and 72 to 288 analog pins. Quadrants can be used independently to test different devices on different peripherals; or quadrants can be linked for multisite testing with parallel test efficiencies approaching 100%, quadrant to quadrant. Alternatively, multiple quadrants can be used to realize true concurrent test.
We announced Teradyne's win during a ceremony held in Las Vegas, during which we also honored the winners of the annual Test Engineer of the Year award, Test of Time award, and Best in Test awards. Lisa Moder, the Test Engineer of the Year, was profiled in our April issue, where we also announced the winners of the Best in Test and Test of Time awards. www.tmworld.com/awards.
Presto and CEA-Leti to test 3-D devices
Presto Engineering and CEA-Leti, a French research and technology public organization, have begun a three-year collaboration to extend Presto's test, reliability, and failure-analysis products to the testing of TSVs (through-silicon vias), the interconnects between levels on 3-D devices. The two firms will work together in a common lab that will include Presto's new R&D center at CEA-Leti's facility in Grenoble, France.
"CEA-Leti has industry-leading expertise in 3-D integration, advanced interconnects, and TSVs, and by working side by side with CEA-Leti's experts, Presto will build on our proven product engineering capabilities for the arrival of TSVs," said Michel Villemain, CEO of Presto Engineering, in a prepared statement.
Through the collaboration, Presto and CEA-Leti will work to characterize the reliability, defect susceptibility, and electrical performance aspects of TSVs; identify existing test protocols that are appropriate for 3-D structures while developing new ones to meet new challenges; and bring up new diagnostic methods or tools to identify root cause of failures. The lab will make the ATE and debug process as well as the product engineering platform available for third parties. In addition to its broad goals, the joint lab will enable Presto to develop critical test and analysis techniques, such as probing specific areas of TSVs without affecting the device itself. www.presto-eng.com.
Agilent introduces 32-GHz oscilloscope
The race for the highest bandwidth oscilloscope has a new leader as Agilent Technologies has introduced the 90000-X series, which includes a 32-GHz model. The 32-GHz instrument (when running two of four channels), combined with its accompanying probes, forms a 30-GHz measuring system. Using a probe head with SMA connectors, you get a maximum bandwidth of 28 GHz.
Agilent achieves the high bandwidth through a multichip module designed to act like a Faraday cage around sensitive indium-phosphide analog components. Its 13.5-ps rise time, amplitude noise floor of 2 mV at 50 Mv/div, 32-GHz bandwidth, and jitter-measurement floor of 180 fs maximize signal fidelity. The instruments in the series don't use DSP techniques to boost bandwidth at the expense of noise.
The series consists of five DSOs (digital sampling oscilloscopes) and five DSAs (dynamic signal analyzers). The instruments start with a bandwidth of 16 GHz and cover 20 GHz, 25 GHz, 28 GHz, and 32 GHz on two channels, with all models operating at 16 GHz on four channels. All models sample at 80 Gsamples/s (two channels) and 40 Gsamples/s (four channels). Maximum waveform memory is 2 Gsamples/channel. Standard memory is 10 Msamples/channel.
Price range: from $131,000 for a 16-GHz DSO to $286,000 for a 32-GHz DSA. Agilent Technologies, www.agilent.com.
Netropy assesses WAN conditions
Apposite Technologies' Netropy network emulator simulates complex WAN topologies so engineers can benchmark, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise applications, including those involving file sharing, network storage, and IP voice and video. The performance of applications operating over a WAN depends not only on the available bandwidth but also on the latency, jitter, loss, and network congestion. Netropy models dozens of concurrent WAN links at up to 10 Gbps.
Netropy allows engineers to simulate multisite networks by emulating simultaneous connections between centralized resources and remote offices, benchmark multiple products or conditions by running side-by-side comparisons, run multiple tests concurrently to slash test time, isolate applications to measure the impact of particular conditions on each one, and model advanced queuing and loss to build models of complex network conditions.
The Netropy family consists of the Netropy N60 (one 1-Gbps emulation engine with up to 15 WAN links), Netropy N80 (four separate 1-Gbps emulation engines of 15 WAN links each), and Netropy 10G (one 1-Gbps and two 10-Gbps emulation engines).
Base price: $8000. Apposite Technologies, www.apposite-tech.com.
Calendar
Sensors Expo, June 7–9, Rosemont, IL. Questex Media Group. www.sensorsexpo.com.
Design Automation, June 13–18, Anaheim, CA. ACM SIGDA and IEEE, www2.dac.com.
Semicon West, July 13–15, San Francisco, CA. SEMI, www.semiconwest.org.
EMC Symposium, July 25–30, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. IEEE, www.emc2010.org.
Autotestcon, September 13–16, Orlando, FL. IEEE, www.autotestcon.com
To learn about other conferences, courses, and calls for papers, visit www.tmworld.com/events.
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