New Single-Bay Spectrum™ 9010 VXI Foundation Platform Introduced at AUTOTESTCON

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - August 25, 1998 - Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER), the leading supplier of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) functional test equipment for mil/aero applications, announced its new Spectrum 9010 VXI Foundation Platform at AUTOTESTCON '98. The Spectrum 9010 offers test system integrators new price and performance options for configuring VXI-based systems for electronic assemblies. Teradyne has already received $1.8 million in orders for multiple Spectrum 9010 systems.

The new Spectrum 9010 VXI Foundation Platform offers a a core functional test building block for applications where performance verification is key. Request a data sheet.

The Spectrum 9010 is the newest member of Teradyne's Spectrum 9000-Series, which provides a comprehensive range of solutions for assembly test using in-circuit, boundary-scan, and functional-test technologies. The Spectrum 9020, a larger two-frame system, was introduced earlier this year at NEPCON West as part of the Spectrum family of VXI test platforms.

The single-bay Spectrum 9010 offers a cost-effective solution for tailoring or reconfiguring a system as capacity requirements change. Scaleable options with the Spectrum 9010 include choice of fixturing schemes, analog instrumentation, digital configurations, power distribution subsystems, and alternative VXI chassis. The Spectrum 9010 provides customers a core functional board test platform to build on and room for expansion to meet changing performance requirements over time.

According to John Arena, Spectrum 9000 product manager, "The Spectrum 9010 is designed for focused, lower-mix, application-specific test where performance verification is key. By leveraging VXI software and hardware standards, the Spectrum 9010 provides a core building block with an openness and reconfigurability, while providing performance test capabilities not previously available in a VXI architecture. The Spectrum 9010 is a fully integrated functional test system, ready to support high-performance digital, RF, and mixed-signal test requirements. Standards based software, and modular power and cooling meet the most demanding requirements and ensure problem-free integration of additional instruments."

Web-based ATE Operating Environment Integrates Development, Documentation, Debug, and Execution

The Spectrum 9010 operating environment is Teradyne's TestStudio™. TestStudio offers a versatile, open-architecture environment for test development, documentation, debug, and execution that can be easily configured to support multiple software and TPS development requirements. Using Microsoft Windows NT and COM interface standards, TestStudio can encapsulate a wide selection of programming languages and Application Development Environments (ADEs), including HP VEE, LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Visual Basic and Visual C++, as well as specialized in-house programming tools. TestStudio uses familiar Web-based browser and hyperlink technologies to provide a common, intuitive user interface for all programming tools - reducing the costs of training, documentation, and ongoing maintenance.

Best-in-Class Digital and Analog Instrumentation

Digital and analog instrumentation is housed in a 13-slot C-size high-performance chassis. Available integrated instruments include Teradyne's high-performance M9-Series VXI Digital Test Instrument with fault-dictionary and guided-probe diagnostics, plus a suite of VXI analog instruments, including a digital multi-meter, counter/timer, arbitrary waveform generator, and analog switch matrix. The switch matrix provides optimum signal versatility and enables integration of up to eight 2-line analog instruments. The 32 relays can be software controlled to meet any switch matrix requirement in a single-slot module.

Pricing for configurations of the Spectrum 9010 start at $160,000 and the test system is currently available for shipment. The foundation platform is a one-bay system with standard 19-inch (48cm) rack, GPIB expansion, VXI-C chassis, TTI Testron interface (VP Series 90 optional), 2 DC power modules, and a 4.7 kVA power distribution subsystem (10 or 20 kVA optional). The Spectrum 9010 operating environment is TestStudio.

Teradyne is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment and software for the electronics and telecommunications industries, and a leading supplier of high-performance backplane assemblies and connectors. The company's Assembly Test Division is a major supplier of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) functional test systems and test development software for board, box, and system-level test. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Teradyne reported 1997 sales of approximately $1.26 billion. The company's address on the World Wide Web is www.teradyne.com.

Spectrum 9000-Series and TestStudio are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.