Test Products
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2001--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER), the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment and high performance interconnection systems for the electronics industry, announced today that Transilica Inc. has selected Teradyne's Catalyst test system with the MicroWAVE6000(TM) instrumentation suite to test its wireless chips. Transilica, an innovation leader in wireless silicon design, is utilizing Teradyne's field support resources to develop total test solutions and to assist their transfer overseas for volume production.
Douglas Schertzer, Director of Operations for Transilica, said, "We recognized Teradyne as a leader in 2.4GHz wireless SOC testing for both coverage and economics. With Teradyne's support and their large installed base of test systems at subcontractors, they were the clear choice for our production."
"Fast-growing companies like Transilica have time-to-market requirements that are quicker than ever. By tightly coordinating test R&D, deployment of test IP to the field, and communications in our worldwide applications group, we offer the competitive edge in the race to high-volume production, with the lowest risk," said David Derian, Wireless/RF Marketing Manager at Teradyne.
About MicroWAVE6000
The MicroWAVE6000 instrumentation suite provides a complete range of RF/microwave test capabilities 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 plus options, including: 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 Catalyst
Catalyst dominates the SOC market with test capabilities for DSL, wireless, microwave and power management applications. With more than 4,000 individual users worldwide, Catalyst's IMAGE(TM) programming system is the most widely used ATE software environment. Catalyst currently offers wireless devices, quad-site testing, providing the best test economics and most complete array of analog instrumentation. When a cell call is placed, or a PC, printer, scanner, pager, or DVD is utilized, Catalyst tested ICs make it happen.
About Transilica Inc.
Transilica Inc. is a rapidly growing fabless semiconductor company leading the innovation of system-on-chip wireless technology. Transilica has built a world-class team of RF CMOS, ASIC, and integrated software design engineers developing low power wireless devices for headsets, phones, PDAs, notebooks, printers, keyboards, digital cameras and many other consumer and enterprise products. Founded in 1999, Transilica is headquartered in San Diego, CA with subsidiaries in Taiwan, Singapore and Tokyo. The company's investors include SBVC, Smart Technology Ventures, Lakshmi Ventures, Gamelan Capital Fund, CDIB & Partners Investment Holding Corporation (f/k/a Southeast Asia Investment Holdings), R.O.C. Venture Company Ltd., Joinwin Investment Co. Ltd., Siliconware Investment Co. Ltd. and IBT Venture Co. Transilica's OneChip(TM), the world's smallest fully integrated Bluetooth system-on-chip solution, combines all Bluetooth components including the RF transceiver, baseband modem, microprocessor, SRAM and flash memory into one eight square millimeter BGA chip. OneChip also provides integrated serial port, USB or Codec interfaces. Further information is available at www.transilica.com.
About Teradyne, Inc.
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 $3.0 billion in 2000 and currently employs about 9000 people worldwide. For more information visit www.teradyne.com.
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