| Washington,
DC -- October 20, 1998 -- Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER)
recognized its partnerships with nine leading suppliers
of electronic automatic test systems to the U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD) at the ITC conference. All nine suppliers
have integrated or designed Teradynes VXI-based digital
test technology into the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)
test systems they supply to the DoD for use in field,
depot, and manufacturing test. The announcement was
made at the International Test Conference (ITC) held
October 18-23 in Washington, DC.
The companies recognized by Teradyne as "Digital
Test Partners" are supplying the next generation
of test equipment to the DoD using industry-standard
component software, standard VXI hardware building blocks,
and VXIplug&play software. Their objective is to
meet the higher performance requirements of new DoD
weapon systems and at the same time address the maintenance
requirements of legacy weapon systems with modern, lower-cost
test platforms.
All nine suppliers have selected Teradynes M900 VXI
Digital Test Unit or M9-Series of VXI Digital Test Instruments
as their solution for digital functional test. Both
the D-size M900 and the C-size M9-Series take full advantage
of VXI interface standards and advanced packaging techniques
to offer more digital performance, plus greater cost
efficiency and higher reliability, than has ever been
available in a VXI format.
Teradyne recognized the following Digital Test Partners.
The test systems that include Teradyne digital test
technology are listed in the right-hand column.
ARGOSystems
Sunnyvale, California |
Portable Ruggedized Test
System |
dme Corporation
Orlando, Florida |
JSATS (JSTARS Semi-Automated
Test System) |
Honeywell
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
H3500 Digital Test Station |
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Orlando, Florida |
Consolidated Automated Support
System (CASS)
Reconfigurable/Transportable CASS (RT-CASS) |
Lockheed Martin Services
Huntsville, Alabama |
General-purpose Electronic
Test System (GETS) |
ManTech Systems Engineering
Corp.
Third Echelon Test System (TETS) |
Chantilly, Virginia |
Northrop Grumman
Integrated Family of Test Equipment (IFTE) |
Los Angeles, California |
Raytheon Systems Company
Guided Weapons Test System (GWTS) |
Tucson, Arizona |
Raytheon Systems Company
In-house Factory Test Equipment |
Tewksbury, Massachusetts |
Systems & Electronics
Inc.
Radar Depot/Factory Test Equipment |
St. Louis, Missouri |
WesTest Engineering Corp.
WesTest 2000 Series |
Farmington, Utah |
Teradyne is the world's largest manufacturer of automatic
test equipment ("ATE") for the electronics
industry. Products include systems to test semiconductors,
circuit boards and modules, telephone lines, computerized
telephone systems, and software. The Company is also
a leading manufacturer of backplanes and associated
high-density connectors used in electronic systems.
Teradyne supports these products through an extensive
service and application engineering network, with technical
centers located throughout the United States, Europe,
and Asia's Pacific Rim.
The Assembly Test Division, located in Boston and Walnut
Creek, California, serves circuit-board test customers
with comprehensive capabilities in test and inspection.
These test instruments and systems are used in commercial
environments and in military/aerospace applications
where reliability, time-to-market, and in-line process
test are key to success. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts,
Teradyne reported sales of approximately $1.3 billion
in 1997 and had 6300 employees worldwide.
Product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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