The UltraFLEX Family

Leveraging our customers’ existing investment, the UltraFLEX family of testers strives to reduce the engineering effort required to develop and deploy new test programs with comprehensive instrumentation and our IG-XL software, an industry standard with over 10,000 active programmers that has been continually enhanced over UltraFLEX’s long history.

The UltraPAC80 high density AC source and capture instrument offers up to 8 source and capture channels, each with dedicated audio and video analog paths. Teradyne’s proprietary sample clock architecture provides the user with complete sample frequency flexibility without performance compromise and guaranteed phase alignment to every other instrument on every run of the test program to eliminate the need for job-specific calibration to achieve the phase balance required for the highest performance RF transceivers.

The UltraVI80 high pin count, high accuracy voltage and current option provides 80 independent pins of “3-in-1” capability.  Each UVI80 pin is a true voltage or current (VI) source and measure instrument complete with ultra high-accuracy differential voltmeters and time measurement units available to each pin for complete, massively paralleled testing of mobile power management devices. In addition, UVI80 channels can operate in a special, low-droop voltage source mode that offers unmatched power supply noise performance for sensitive analog and RF applications. Finally, each UVI80 channel has an embedded high performance AC waveform source and measure capability for highly paralleled test of D/A and A/D converters embedded in complex SOC or microcontroller devices.

The UltraVS256 high density Device Power Supply (DPS) provides 256 independent channels per instrument to provide the massively paralleled capability required by low power mobile communications devices. The UVS256 also offers a clamp-based current source capability for device parametric testing.  The UVS256 provides test engineers with the capability of programmable output bandwidth and full pattern setup and measure control that results in reduced DIB complexity and faster test times.

The HEXVS and VSM Ultra High Accuracy and Stability Processor Core Supplies improve performance and yield of complex processors by offering unmatched voltage accuracy and stability under load. This allows devices to be configured for maximum performance at lower voltages, increasing the value and yield of devices tested on UltraFLEX.

The DC30 and DC75 voltage/current supplies extend DC capability to 30 volts and 75 volts to address high voltage test requirements of of mobile power management and other devices. Like the UltraVI80, both options contain a precision differential voltmeter and time measurement capability.

The UltraSerial10G is a high-speed serial instrument that can test expanding serial bus technologies and replicates the device operating environment for optimal test quality at device limited test time with the highest possible throughput. This instrument has 20 differential drive and receive ports (40 channels/80 wires) per board, a frequency range of 42Mbps to 10.7Gbps with 426M drive/compare, and 1Gig capture memory, and includes pseudo-random bit stream (PRBS) hardware, and protocol aware testing support for PCIe. All of these features are designed to provide an efficient test methodology for SerDes bus testing.

Wireless Test

UltraWaveLX

The UltraWaveLX subsystem, available in multiple configurations, delivers emerging wireless protocol capabilities by seamlessly integrating LitePoint’s leading edge technologies within the UltraFLEX platform.

The UltraWaveLX-RF delivers 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) testing capabilities, while the UltraWaveLX-UWB serves UWB testing conditions, and the UltraWaveLX-60G supports mmWave applications in the 60 GHz band. These configurations can be combined to deliver multiple cutting-edge RF test capabilities within a single test platform.

UltraWave24

Teradyne is the leader in RF/wireless device testing and has a large installed base of UltraFLEX test systems with the UltraWave24 RF instrument. As new devices for handset and base station applications are introduced using mmWave technology, Teradyne’s mmWave instrumentation has expanded in anticipation of testing demands.

UltraWaveMX

The UltraWaveMX53, UltraWaveMX44, UltraWaveMX20-D16 and UltraWaveMX8 are Teradyne’s MX family of instruments for mmWave frequencies. These instruments extend the UltraWave24 capability for full test coverage of WiFi, LTE, Ultra-wideband and 5G standards for frequencies below 52.6 GHz. Existing UltraWave24 customers can upgrade their systems with a single slot instrument that does not require reconfiguration of the test system. They can continue to use existing device interface boards (DIBs) and production interface docking compatibility for their existing applications.

The MX family of instruments targets RF and IF interfaces for both 5G IF transceiver and 5G RF beamformer device coverage. And they support characterization and production device testing for probe, package, module and over-the-air applications.

A patented active thermal control within the instrument guarantees temperature stability to ensure that high-performance specifications are met in the engineering and production environments. The UltraWaveMX instruments also feature integrated power detectors which provide specification traceability. There is a dedicated low phase noise DUT reference clock operating from 100 MHz to 6 GHz to supply a precision reference clock for devices with integrated PLLs.

These instruments feature native 5G-NR modulation and demodulation test coverage with the integrated ESA toolkit using industry-standard waveform algorithms for waveform modulation and demodulation to simplify bench-to-ATE correlation.

The instruments provide dedicated mmWave frequency blind-mate coaxial DIB connections, which are designed to withstand the challenges of a production environment while providing the performance to source and measure high quality from 8 GHz to 53 GHz test waveforms to the device.

The award-winning IG-XL test software environment enables simple programming for fast test program development. Interactive debug displays integrated with the instrument hardware create an intuitive software system that minimizes training and speeds time to market.

The UltraWaveMX53 addresses the need to cover the 5G FR2 frequencies up to 52.6 GHz. The instrument provides unmatched performance over the full frequency range with fully integrated temperature stabilization and calibration features. The integrated synthesizer per channel architecture provides best-in-class phase noise performance that enables source and measure capabilities of modulated waveforms with unprecedent EVM performance.

The UltraWaveMX53 instrument is available in three configurations: -D16, -IF and -RF. Each of these configurations provide two channels and 16 ports that cover up to 53 GHz. The IF and RF configurations add two more channels with a total of 16 additional ports that cover up to 20 GHz and 44 GHz respectively.

Teradyne’s UltraWaveMX44 provides coverage from 24 GHz to 44 GHz.  The available 32 mmWave ports on the UltraWaveMX44 significantly simplify DIB design. For greater site density, the system can scale to up to 128 mmWave ports, which is necessary for multisite testing that delivers the lowest cost of test.