Boston, Mass.-- April 2, 1996 -- Teradyne, Inc.'s LASAR Version 6.51 digital simulation software, widely used by government and industry for functional test development, is now available on Hewlett-Packard 9000-Series workstations running the HP-UX operating system. In addition to simulation and fault simulation, all of LASAR's design-to-test integration modules have been ported to the HP environment including encapsulation into Mentor Graphics' Falcon Framework and links to Teradyne's L-Series test systems.

"Support for the Hewlett-Packard platform was requested by several customers whose organizations have standardized on HP workstations for computer-aided engineering applications. Now that LASAR, the industry-standard tool for diagnostic test generation, also runs on the HP platform, our customers will be able to minimize their computer support costs by using the same platform for design and test, " says Dave Rolince, product manager.

Over 4,000 functional test programs for circuit boards have been developed using LASAR software. By simulating circuit activity, LASAR predicts good-circuit responses to test patterns, enabling fault detection and isolation when the test patterns are applied to an assembled circuit board by automatic test equipment. LASAR also simulates potential circuit faults, providing users with an accurate measure of test program fault coverage.

Minimum recommended HP 9000-Series workstation configurations include 64 Mbytes of RAM and 2 Gbytes of available disk. Software licenses for LASAR running on HP workstations start at $72,600. The software is available now.