Test Products
SEOUL, Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) today announced that its leading system-on-a-chip (SOC) Tester Family - Catalyst - continues to expand into the Bluetooth(TM) and VLSI markets. Demonstrations of the popular Catalyst, performing quad-site testing of Bluetooth devices are being presented at Semicon Korea. (Booth 218-Pacific Hall -1FI-). Also highlighted is Catalyst Tiger, the first Broadband SOC tester and one of the newest members of the Catalyst Family. The critical test solutions provided by Catalyst's breadth of coverage reinforce its recent expansion into broadband SOC.
"One of the most successful Catalyst market segments to date has been for the test of wireless/RF ICs to support the tremendous growth of the mobile phone industry," said Mike Baglino, Teradyne Wireless Business Manager. "Anticipating the growth potential for Bluetooth devices back in 1998, Teradyne involved itself early in the standard's development and joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Today Catalyst is the leading Bluetooth test solution."
"Quality testing must include the highest throughput in order for Bluetooth device manufacturers to be profitable," said Dave Derian, MicroWAVE6000(TM) Product Manager. "That's why all Catalyst Family members are flexible, fast, and can be fully configured with complete analog instrumentation from DC to microwave."
Teradyne's Wireless/RF group raced by another milestone in 2000: over 250 units of its microwave products were installed worldwide and that number is now fast approaching 300. "Teradyne is the leading provider of microwave/RF test products because we offer the broadest range of test solutions and best test economics," added Baglino.
Tiger also adds a powerful test solution to the Catalyst Family. The first broadband SOC system, Tiger complements the other family members, ranging from Catalyst FC - engineered and priced specifically for the wireless market - to the midrange SOC Catalyst Tester.
"Tiger expands Catalyst's broadband market penetration to include high-performance digital SOC devices. Tiger features the speed and throughput required for emerging technologies in the network and chipset markets," said Ellen Eisele, Tiger Product Manager. "With its tight test economics, 1024 digital pins, plus Catalyst-proven broadband analog, Tiger is the world's next generation performance SOC test system."
About Tiger
Catalyst Tiger is the first over 1 Gbps SOC test system. Extending the Catalyst Family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM) software, and state-of-the-art analog instruments and extends the Catalyst Family to 1024 digital pins. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger sets a new digital performance standard with full I/O data rates to 1.6 Gbps while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by chipset and network processing applications.
About the Catalyst Family
The leading system-on-a-chip test system with more than 900 systems ordered worldwide, Catalyst tests DSL, set top box, DVD, cellular, graphics, LAN, power management, PRML, and microwave devices. With a range of digital pin offerings, the Catalyst Family provides the best and most efficient and cost effective level of test suitable for advanced mixed-signal and SOC testing: Catalyst FC provides 64 digital pins; Catalyst LC provides 128 pins; Catalyst provides 384 pins, and Catalyst Tiger provides 1024 pins.
The Catalyst SOC test Family reduces time-to-market and test cost through state-of-the-art instrumentation, including the MicroWAVE6000, Gazelle, 1.5 ps jitter PicoClock(TM), and the new Time Jitter Analyzer with 5 ps jitter high speed time sampling instrumentation. Catalyst digital is available from 25 MHz to 1600 Mbps I/O and from 16 to 1024 pins to match wide device needs and parallel test configurations.
About Catalyst
Catalyst dominates the SOC market with test capabilities for DSL, wireless, microwave, and power management applications. With more than 4000 individual users worldwide, Catalyst's IMAGE(TM) programming system is the most widely used ATE software environment. Catalyst offers multi-site and concurrent block testing, providing the best test economics in the industry. When a cell call is placed, or a PC, printer, scanner, pager, or a DVD is utilized, Catalyst tested ICs make it happen.
About MicroWAVE6000
The MicroWAVE6000 instrumentation suite provides a complete range of RF/microwave tests required for current and future wireless devices and communications standards. MicroWAVE6000 includes full 6 GHz source, measure, and vector network analysis (VNA) capability, complete 12-term error correction, and graphical-user interface (GUI) based test templates for programming ease-of-use. Options include modulation to 2.7 GHz, up to 16 RF pins, noise figure test option, phase noise test option, and frequency hopping.
Fully integrated within Catalyst and A5 test systems, MicroWAVE6000 is the only RF/microwave instrumentation available that also allows for complete system configuration flexibility for today's high-volume production environment. Catalyst and A5 systems can either be configured as focused RF test solutions, with ample room for further instrument expansion, or as complete wireless SOC test solutions by augmenting MicroWAVE6000 with the full complement of Teradyne's mixed-signal AC, DC, and digital instrumentation. In addition, MicroWAVE6000 instrumentation can be added easily to Catalyst and A5 installed systems.
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment and high performance interconnection systems for the electronics, telecommunications and Internet industries. 2000 sales were $3.0 billion and there are currently more than 10,000 Teradyne employees worldwide. Teradyne products are used to test semiconductors, circuit assemblies, telephone lines and broadband networks. Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density connectors are used in the communications and computing systems central to the Internet infrastructure. More than 70% of the company's business is driven by Internet growth.
IMAGE, PicoClock, and MicroWAVE6000 are trademarks of Teradyne
Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sweden.
