AMD Purchases Tiger Test Systems for Next Generation Devices with HyperTransport Technology.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2001 Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TER Third version. See bis. ) announced that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ) has purchased multiple Tiger Test Systems to test integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. with HyperTransport(TM) technology. The HyperTransport technology is designed to reduce bottlenecks; speeding data flow inside the computers, servers and network switches that power the Internet. Tiger is the first SOC system offering economical at-speed testing for emerging high speed bus standards like AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. 8X, 1 GHz DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory , HyperTransport technology and Rapid I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output . "Tiger is a next generation chipset tester," said Calvin Cheung, manager, Core Logic Product Development Engineering at AMD. "AMD's productive working relationship with Teradyne led us to select Tiger as our technology evolved. With HyperTransport technology-based designs and other complex cells on our silicon roadmap, Tiger's differential, flexible pin architecture and wide analog instrument range meet with our requirements." "The HyperTransport bus is designed to enable computer chips to communicate with each other faster," said Chris Neuts, manager of Technology Evangelism at AMD. "Our new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link technology requires new test solutions such as Teradyne's Tiger. AMD and our HyperTransport technology licensees need the differential test capability that products like Tiger offer to get these new devices to market quickly." "New technologies create new challenges for IC makers," said Jeff Schneider, Teradyne Marketing Manager. "Products that incorporate technologies like HyperTransport often combine multiple asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. buses and use I/O speeds over 500 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. . With Tiger, Teradyne is creating leading edge test solutions for tomorrow's new technologies, today." About Tiger Tiger is the first over 1 Gbps SOC test system. Extending the Catalyst family, Tiger shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive architecture, IMAGE(TM) software, and state-of-the-art analog instruments. Powered by breakthrough Silicon Germanium (SiGe) A semiconductor material made from silicon and germanium. Germanium is very similar to silicon, but when one layer is grown on top of the other to form the base of the transistor, the resulting transistor can switch faster and yield higher performance. (SiGe) technology, Tiger sets the standard with Real I/O(TM) data rates to 1.6 Gbps. Real I/O gives better fault coverage and shorter test times through functional and timing margin checks in a single pattern burst, at any digital data rate. About HyperTransport(TM) Technology HyperTransport technology is a new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a universal connection that is designed to reduce the number of buses within the system, provide a high-performance link for embedded applications, and enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It was designed to enable the chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than with existing technologies. Compared with existing system interconnects that provide bandwidth up to 266MB/sec, HyperTransport technology's potential peak bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec represents better than a 40-fold increase in data throughput. HyperTransport technology provides an extremely fast connection that complements externally visible bus standards like the Peripheral Component Interconnect See PCI. (hardware) Peripheral Component Interconnect - (PCI) A standard for connecting peripherals to a personal computer, designed by Intel and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including Apple Computer. (PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). ), as well as emerging technologies like InfiniBand and Gigabit Ethernet. HyperTransport technology is designed to provide the bandwidth that the new InfiniBand standard requires to communicate with memory and system components inside of next-generation servers and devices that may power the backbone infrastructure of the telecom industry. HyperTransport technology is targeted primarily at the information technology and telecom industries, but any application in which high speed, low latency and scalability is necessary can potentially take advantage of HyperTransport technology. HyperTransport technology also has a unique daisy-chainable feature, giving the opportunity to connect multiple HyperTransport input/output bridges to a single channel. HyperTransport technology is designed to support up to 32 devices per channel and can mix and match components with different bus widths and speeds. About Teradyne Teradyne (NYSE: TER) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test systems and high performance interconnection systems for the electronics, telecommunications and Internet industries. Teradyne products are used to test semiconductors, printed circuit board assemblies, telephone lines and broadband networks. Teradyne's backplane assemblies and high-density, high-bandwidth connectors are used in the communications and computing systems central to the Internet infrastructure. In 2000, the company had sales of $3.0 billion and there are currently more than 9600 employees. Teradyne's World Wide Web address is www.teradyne.com. AMD and HyperTransport are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All other product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. IMAGE and Real I/O are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. |
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