Pintail teams with Avago to hone adaptive test software
-- Test & Measurement World, 3/25/2008 9:37:00 AM
Pintail Technologies, a supplier of adaptive test software for semiconductor manufacturing, announces that it will incorporate advanced outlier detection algorithms developed by Avago Technologies into its commercial software offerings. Pintail’s SwifTest statistical test software can increase the quality and reliability of tested components by performing dynamic outlier detection and rejection during online production.
“Pintail wants to thank Pete O’Neill of Avago for selecting SwifTest as the most efficient vehicle to deliver his statistical test concepts into volume production,” said Taylor Scanlon, President and CEO of Pintail. “Pete is a recognized leader in this field and has been instrumental in showing us how to expand SwifTest’s capabilities to include a whole new generation of adaptive test techniques.”
Avago has worked closely with Pintail over the past 12 months as Pintail re-architected SwifTest to accommodate more sophisticated and general-purpose sets of data models and program interfaces. Pintail plans to include Avago algorithms in its future SwifTest product offerings. Users will be able to add their own proprietary algorithms to SwifTest for performing online test time reduction or quality improvement. There are over 400 copies of SwifTest in worldwide production today running on a variety of leading testers, including Verigy’s 93K and Teradyne’s FLEX and J750 platforms. In addition, Avago plans to use SwifTest in its production flow.
