Test Products
Kumar Patel, President, VIKO Test Labs, said, "VIKO is proud to offer our customers state-of-the-art testing with Teradyne's test systems. The accessibility of local test equipment and engineering resources in high-growth areas like Wireless test is essential in today's market. With the industry-leading RF test solution, Teradyne's Catalyst with MicroWAVE6000(TM), we provide total test coverage with the highest throughput, allowing us to provide a world class test center in the heart of Silicon Valley."
David Derian, Marketing Manager, Wireless/RF Test at Teradyne, said, "The combination of VIKO's test engineering expertise and Teradyne's wireless solutions creates a situation that is optimal for fabless companies: fastest time to market, with the lowest risk, and lowest cost of test. Teradyne is continuing to expand wireless capabilities on Catalyst, enabling VIKO to support the latest RF devices for high growth markets including 3G mobile phones and WLAN products."
About MicroWAVE6000
Teradyne's 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: microwave modulation, up to 16 RF pins, as well as options for noise figure, phase noise measurements and frequency hopping. Fully integrated within Teradyne's 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 1000 systems shipped. Test capabilities include full coverage for DSL, wireless/RF, networking, and power management applications. With more than 4,000 individual users worldwide, Catalyst's IMAGE programming system is the most widely used ATE software environment. Catalyst offers multi-site testing, providing the best test economics, and the most complete array of analog instrumentation for test coverage and production flexibility. When a mobile phone call is placed, or a PC, printer, scanner, pager, or DVD is utilized, Catalyst tested ICs make it happen and with the lowest cost of test.
About VIKO Technology
Established over 20 years ago, VIKO Technology Inc. designs, develops and manufactures burn-in products, burn-in/package qualification and electrical test services for the semiconductor industry.
VIKO Technology offers decades of experience in burn-in systems manufacturing, burn-in board manufacturing, PCB layout and design, and full turn-key contract manufacturing. VIKO Technology provides global technical leadership in the burn-in industry. To learn more about VIKO Technology visit vikotestlab.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.
