Credence debuts digital instrument for Diamond series; Haier chooses Diamond 10
-- Test & Measurement World, 3/24/2008 1:31:00 PM
Credence Systems has introduced the DD1096-32 digital instrument with 32-Mbit deep reconfigurable parallel vector memory. Using the 96 channel DD1096-32 within the 10-slot Diamond 10 offers customers up to 768 channels, each with 32 Mbits of parallel vector memory depth. The DD1096-32 also enables up to 256 scan chains and over 77 G scan vectors. For massive multisite use in high-mix, high-volume production applications, the 40-slot Diamond 40 with DD1096-32 scales up to 3072 channels with up to 1024 scan chains and over 309 G scan vectors. This scan capability is configurable from narrow to wide “broadside” scan for efficient test coverage.
The instrument’s 100-MHz pattern sequencer can provide 200-MHz clocks and drive data rates up to 200 Mbps. The DD1096-32 comes with a flexible instruction set to support conventional functional tests, along with STIL-based EDA integration for applying structural test methods. It can handle any combination of input or output chains such as those required for BIST-enabled devices. Moreover, two-bits per scan-output-cycle capability allows masking of failing scan cells to improve customers’ debug productivity. Other features include algorithmic pattern generation for development and debug of embedded memory tests, field upgradeable firmware, integrated time measurement capability, high-speed scalable data transport, flexible point-to-point triggering, and pattern-speed synchronization with other instruments in the system.
At less than $600/pin, the digital instrument enables an air-cooled test system the size of a large desktop computer.
“As we reach our goal to become the value standard for ATE in the consumer industry, we work hard on delivering all of the key components that constitute true value. Translating the benefits of this value to our customers means not only delivering optimal cost of ownership and ease of use, but also the best technology and business fit for a given market environment,” stated Amir Aghdaei, senior VP of field operations and marketing at Credence. “These considerations are clearly important for our customers in the highly competitive consumer-electronics arena, and become especially critical as increasingly integrated, multifunctional end products drive up gate and pin counts in new devices. The DD1096-32 instrument makes our Diamond test platform even more versatile, allowing our customers to realize the advantages of faster time-to-market in a very cost-effective and productive manner.”
Credence also announced that Haier (Beijing) IC Design Company Ltd. will use the Diamond 10 (D10) to test the company’s consumer-geared IC device products. Yang Yan Chun, vice general manager of Haier (Beijing) IC, said, “After careful review and consideration of our ATE options, it was clear to us that the D10 from Credence was a very cost effective test platform for our products. We are now driving D10 systems with our subcontractors and partners for mass production, and we are very pleased with the economic efficiencies we have been able to achieve.” Haier uses the D10 for IC devices such as digital audio and video decoders for digital TV.
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