Advantest and IMS' Virtual Test Division Form Strategic Alliance to Cut Customer IC Development and Test Cost.BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1999-- Integrated Measurement Systems' (Nasdaq:IMSC IMSC Integrated Media Systems Center (University of Southern California) IMSC Information Management Steering Committee IMSC International Mobile Satellite Conference IMSC Interworking Mobile Switching Center ) Virtual Test Division (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. VTD VTD Variable Torque Distribution VTD Valley Transit District VTD Virtual Tape Device VTD Vehicle Theft Deterrent VTD Vacuum Tank Degasser VTD Visual Target Detection VTD Visitor Terminal Database VTD Vision Testing Device VTD Vendor to Distributor ) and Advantest today announced a strategic partnership to provide customers with IMS' Digital VirtualTester(TM) and TestDirect(TM) software support for the Advantest T6600 family of ultra-high speed logic test systems. These software products will aid customers in IC design verification and production test program development. Customers will benefit in saving time and money by reducing the overall time to market of new IC designs. "Our customer base is very rapidly growing and we have many customers eagerly waiting to use IMS' Digital VirtualTester(TM) and TestDirect(TM) software to aid in early test program development and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. for our T6600 systems," said Rick Chrusciel, product manager for Advantest's T6600 Logic Test Systems. "The combination of our pacesetting T6682 high-performance, high-speed logic tester and IMS' Digital VirtualTester allows test engineers the opportunity to develop and debug test programs well in advance of first silicon prototype parts." Chrusciel adds, "In the U.S., Japan, and worldwide, Advantest looks forward to a continuing partnership with IMS for the development of additional tools." "Our partnership will give Advantest customers a strategic advantage by providing them with a design-to-production test software system that will get products to market faster at lower cost," said David Flaningam, general manager of IMS' Virtual Test Division. T6600 VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Test Systems offer best test and functionality Advantest's T6600 family of VLSI testers offers high-speed, highly accurate test with full functionality and true cross platform compatibility -- meaning no adjustments to hardware fixturing or test program rewrites. The T6682 is an ultra high speed 1GHz, 1024-pin logic tester that is ideal for testing ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. or system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices that incorporate embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. memory, large scan patterns or mixed signal features. The T6672 is a lower cost production tester that can be used to provide wafer probe of RAMBUS, Fire Wire, SONET, and MPU See microprocessor. devices that will be final tested at-speed on a T6682. TestDirect and Digital VirtualTester provide cost-effective IC test Digital VirtualTester is the first automated test productivity tool that enables test engineers to verify and debug IC timing and test patterns using a production tester behavioral model on an engineering workstation. With the Digital VirtualTester simulation technology, engineers can begin test development during the design process and reduce test debug times by 50 percent or more. The results are reduced test costs and shorter overall IC product development cycles. TestDirect is an advanced pattern generation program that provides test engineers with an automatic tool for generating Automated Test Equipment (ATE) patterns from the designer's original simulation environment. This shortens the overall product development cycle, increasing the customer's revenue potential and improving time-to-market competitiveness. Pricing and Availability TestDirect and Digital VirtualTester products for the Advantest T6682 and T6672 are U.S. priced at $70,000 and $60,000 per seat, respectively. Both will be available in the fourth calendar quarter of 1999. About Advantest Advantest Corporation is the world's leading automatic test equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, and is also one of the world's leading producers of electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems. A global company, Advantest has long offered total ATE solutions and leads the industry in every component of semiconductor test: tester, handler, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and software. Its logic, memory, mixed-signal and RF testers, and device handlers are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. lines in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. subsidiary in 1982. Advantest America, Inc.; Advantest America R&D Center, Inc.; and the newly established Advantest Test Engineering Corporation are based in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . About IMS Virtual Test Division The IMS Virtual Test Division is a worldwide leader in Virtual Test Solutions, providing cost-effective software products and consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to reduce the time required to test and verify complex electronic circuits. Information about IMS virtual test products can be found at http://www.virtualtest.com. Digital VirtualTester and TestDirect are trademarks of Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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