Test Products
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2001--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) announced further expansion of wireless capabilities for the Catalyst family of test systems. Utilizing the MicroWAVE6000(TM) suite of instrumentation, the industry leading solution for RFIC test, two wireless demonstrations will be remotely powered by Teradyne's new customer support capabilities. The wireless demonstrations include: a Quadsite Bluetooth(TM) demonstration in a production cell using a Seiko Epson NS6000 series handler and an 802.11a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) device with 5.2GHz test signals. Also to be demonstrated is Bluetooth functionality on the Catalyst Tiger system, illustrating further capability for future SOC devices.
"The Catalyst family has become the standard for Wireless/RF production around the world, including mobile phone chips, Bluetooth and WLAN," said David Derian, Teradyne's Marketing Manager for Wireless/RF. "The wireless demonstrations this week highlight how Quadsite Bluetooth test is production integrated, introduce new functionality in the 802.11a WLAN area, and show the capability of the Catalyst Tiger to handle the highest levels of integration of a Bluetooth 'cell' inside a large SOC device."
"Teradyne's eConnect_NET, our new customer support capability, will be used to highlight remote tester control and further illustrate Teradyne's ability to provide support systems on a global basis," Derian added.
About eSupport
Teradyne's industry leading technical support capability has been expanded through the introduction of a self-service web-based portal, eDiagnostics tools and a new Customer Care Center. eConnect_NET is a new eDiagnostics capability to remotely access Teradyne semiconductor test systems. eConnect_NET provides secure remote access to test systems for online interactive support. The new support.teradyne.com portal provides customers with the most up-to-date technical support information for Teradyne test systems. In addition, a new 24 X 7 Customer Care Center (1-800-TERADYNE) will be introduced, providing enhanced technical support assistance.
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, and provides 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 Tiger
The 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. The flexibility of Tiger allows customers to configure their system to meet the test needs of a broad range of devices.
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 and 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 billion in 2000 and currently employs about 9000 people worldwide. For more information visit www.teradyne.com.
IMAGE and MicroWAVE6000 are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. Bluetooth is a trademark owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
