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NOTE: The following news release replaces and corrects the previous Teradyne news release, which ran Wednesday April 4 on Business Wire, BW0659 (MA-TERADYNE)
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2001--
Test Advantage Ltd. Selects Teradyne's Catalyst For Alba Centre Center for Excellence in SOC Testing in Europe to Utilize System to Provide Test Services, Development and Training
Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) today announced that Test Advantage Limited, a test technology services company headquartered at the Alba Centre campus in Livingston, Scotland, has purchased a Catalyst Test System to support its System-on-a-Chip (SOC) and Mixed-Signal device test development, pre-production and educational activities.
The Alba Centre, developed as a world-class research campus for SOC design and test technology and recognized as a center of excellence in SOC test, will have access to the Catalyst System for test training classes in support of academic research at the Institute for System Level Integration (ISLI).
Test Advantage Limited will use the Catalyst, installed at the facility during the first quarter of this year, to provide semiconductor test related services and facilities to both local UK and European companies testing telecom, datacom and automotive devices, in addition to offering both commercial training and educational resources. Test Advantage Limited will support mutual Teradyne-Test Advantage semiconductor industry customers with test program development, device characterization, pre-production testing and training services.
Fabrice Dechoux, President and CEO at Test Advantage said, "We selected the Catalyst as our first semiconductor test platform. It delivers the full, state-of-the-art test coverage required to test today's complex devices, as well as those in development, and offers the necessary advanced analog instrumentation for the future evolution of those devices test requirements. The Catalyst gives Test Advantage, and the educational facility at the Alba Centre, the test technology it needs to educate students and researchers on the complexities of testing emerging SOCs and Mixed-Signal devices."
"Teradyne is pleased that the Catalyst, with its wide range of instrumentation and rich set of IMAGE(TM) test development tools, will enable Test Advantage to support both the educational facility and our mutual customers in the semiconductor industry. The system easily meets the diverse requirements for program development, device characterization, pre-production testing, and training services," said Rick Bourne, Catalyst Product Manager. "The Catalyst is also the world's most popular SOC tester, in use by more IC manufacturers than any other system," he added.
About Catalyst
The Catalyst Test Systems dominate the SOC market with test capabilities for DSL, wireless, microwave, and power management applications. With more than 4000 individual users worldwide, Catalyst's IMAGE programming system is the most widely used ATE software environment in existence today. Catalyst offers both 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 player is utilized, Catalyst tested ICs make it happen.
About Test Advantage Limited and the Test Technology Centre
Test Advantage Limited was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Test Advantage Holding, LLC in 2000 to develop the test technology center in partnership with the Scottish Enterprise. The commitment is to provide a key element in the infrastructure to support semiconductor companies not only in Scotland, but also throughout the U.K. and Europe. The company is located on the Alba Centre Campus in Livingston, 20 miles (32 km) to the West of Edinburgh. Alba was developed as a world-class research campus for System-on-a-Chip (SOC) design and test technology. The Test Technology Centre will also provide commercial test training classes and support the academic and research activities at the Institute for System Level Integration (ISLI) at Alba.
About Test Advantage Holding, LLC
Test Advantage is a privately held corporation headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. Founded in 1997, Test Advantage provides test equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry from locations in Tempe; Munich, Germany; Singapore; and Livingston, Scotland. The company's customer base includes many of the industry's leading chipmakers including ASE Test (Nasdaq: ASTSF); Atmel Corp. (Nasdaq: ATML); IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT); Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN); and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM).
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 9,000 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.
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