NORTH READING, Mass. – February 13, 2013 – Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) will present a paper at the IPC APEX EXPO 2013 technical conference from February 19 through February 21, 2013 in San Diego, California. The paper explains how in-circuit test systems have evolved in recent years to include innovations and advancements to address new industry challenges and trends. This paper describes how these new ICT advancements contribute to lowering overall manufacturing test costs by improving fault coverage, reliability, and throughput of in-circuit production tests.

“The Evolution of ICT” describes how modern PCB technologies, changing test philosophies, and manufacturing business models are driving in-circuit test evolution and innovations. Recent innovations and advancements to address these challenges and trends include boundary scan, functional test integration strategies, advancements in vectorless test techniques, incorporation of limited access electrical test techniques, test strategy analysis tools, high accuracy pin drivers and sensors, concurrent test throughput investment options, scalable test performance capability architecture, and program development accelerators.

"ICT systems have evolved to address the technology and business challenges of modern PCB manufacturing and their capabilities have advanced far beyond when they were first introduced," said Alan Albee, product manager for Teradyne's Commercial Board Test Group. "Taking into consideration how the in-circuit tester has evolved since its introduction, and all the additional electrical test capabilities now at its disposal that do not require actual physical test access, it may be time to start categorizing today's versatile test systems as 'Electrical Test Controllers' rather than 'In-Circuit Testers'".

For more information on the TestStation in-circuit product family, visit http://www.teradyne.com/ict/.

About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE:TER) is a leading supplier of Automatic Test Equipment used to test semiconductors, wireless products, data storage and complex electronic systems which serve consumer, communications, industrial and government customers. In 2012, Teradyne had sales of$1.66 billion and currently employs approximately 3,600 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com. Teradyne® is a registered trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

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