| WESTFORD,
Mass.--Aug. 6, 2002-- Teradyne's (NYSE: TER)
Assembly Test Division, a global leader in electronics
testing and production solutions, announced the release
and immediate availability of Design-to-Build (D2B™)
Software V3.0; which features a significantly enhanced
version of D2B Strategist™, the distributed test
management software that enables electronics OEMs, contract
manufacturers, and their partners, to accelerate products
to market and reduce the cost of test development.
Teradyne D2B software is a unique, modular environment
that streamlines the free flow of product information
throughout the design-to-manufacturing progression,
it eliminates unnecessary data transfer and data manipulation
steps, and allows customers to develop successful test
strategies on their PC, early in the design cycle before
ever stepping onto the production floor.
D2B provides an industry first by providing distributed
test management across multiple test and inspection
platforms, such as automated optical inspection, automated
X-Ray inspection, flying probe, and in-circuit test
platforms. Teradyne D2B software suite of software tools
allows manufacturers to maximize test effectiveness,
lower capital investment and improve performance on
current test and inspection equipment.
Principal upgrades included in Design-to-Build (D2B)
Software V3.0 include:
- Accurate predictability of test time and test yields
of a selected test strategy
- Feedback from Teradyne test and inspection platforms
verifies fault coverage
- Calculation and analysis of test strategy effectiveness
in catching defects
- D2B/ECO™ - a completely new module that provides
the ability to compare two revisions of a PCB assembly
by performing checks to see if components have been
added, removed, or modified.
"Teradyne's D2B software is a robust suite of
software tools for developing successful strategies
that identify the right amount of test at the right
cost, while producing the highest yield," said
John Wood, manager of Teradyne's enabling technologies
group. "The information generated by the D2B software
allows manufacturers to pinpoint test effectiveness,
minimize capital investment, improve performance on
current test and inspection equipment, and recognize
any need for additional test equipment in order to cover
identified test escapes. D2B accelerates the manufacturer's
ability to improve time-to-market, time-to-volume and
time-to-profit, by optimizing test and inspection designs
prior to the manufacturing stage, reducing costs and
optimizing throughput."
About Teradyne Design-to-Build software
Teradyne's D2B software solutions are MS Windows™-based
and utilize an open architecture. The D2B software framework
enables customers to outperform the competition, maximize
profitability, and get to market first.
D2B Software modules:
- D2B/Strategist™ is a unique decision-making
software solution that enables the deployment of complementary
test strategies and the ability to run multiple "what
if" scenarios in seconds. Users can develop optimized
test strategies based on existing or proposed test
and inspection systems. Once a distributed test strategy
has been determined, Strategist generates the desired
test & inspection program across multiple test
& inspection platforms.
- Strategist determines the test and inspection effectiveness
of a multitude of strategies and provides feedback
of actual fault coverage, test time and yield from
Teradyne Test & Inspection platforms.
- D2B/A3™ used to translate CAD designs, import
bill of materials data, optimize data for selected
manufacturing equipment, assign test probe locations
and output customized files. D2B A3 accepts data from
more than 30 different CAD design formats and generates
programs for a wide variety of both Teradyne and non-Teradyne
test and inspection equipment.
- D2B/DesignView™ provides schematic viewing
and linking of logical and physical design data. The
graphical viewer can simultaneously update both schematic
and physical information whenever the user selects
a component or signal, enabling the simple browsing
of complex design data.
D2B/ECO™ allows the comparison of two revisions
of the same PCB assembly by performing checks on each
board to see if components have been added, removed,
or modified between the two revisions.
- D2B/GenCAM™ Viewer enables the viewing of
GenCAM design data files in an intuitive, graphical
manner. The enhanced D2B GenCAM viewer is available
as a free download from Teradyne's website - www.teradyne.com.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world's largest supplier
of automatic test equipment and is also a leading supplier
of high performance interconnection systems. Teradyne's
test products are used by manufacturers of semiconductors,
circuit assemblies, voice and broadband telephone networks.
Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density connectors
are used by manufacturers of communications and computing
systems central to building networking infrastructure.
The company had sales of $1.4 billion in 2001 and currently
employs about 8000 people worldwide. For more information,
visit www.teradyne.com.
CONTACT:
Mark Stygles
Teradyne Marketing Communications, North America
Westford, MA USA 01886-0033
Tel: 978.589.7425
mark.stygles@teradyne.com
or
Renate Fritz
Marketing Communications, Europe & Asia
Teradyne GmbH, Assembly Test Division
Tel: 49.89.962.85.303
Ismaning, Germany
renate.fritz@teradyne.com |
