Agere Systems Selects New Teradyne Tiger.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2001 Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TER Third version. See bis. ) announced today that Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. (NYSE: AGR AGR advanced gas-cooled reactor .A) has selected the new Catalyst Tiger test system to develop testing programs for 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. that Agere is producing for hard disk drive manufacturers. Agere Systems, which provides a full line of mass storage semiconductors, selected Tiger because of its throughput on sophisticated ICs known as read channels--chips that are used to write data to and retrieve data from a disk platter. "Teradyne is pleased that Agere Systems, which industry analysts have ranked as the leader in read-channel IC sales, will use Tiger in its hard disk drive electronics business. Tiger's high-speed digital capabilities enable it to perform the critical tests required to get products to market first," said Ellen Eisele, Tiger Product Manager. "Tiger also offers the powerful software tools needed for program development and the broad suite of analog and digital instrumentation to cover the widest range of system-on-a-chip and mixed-signal testing requirements." The Tiger system has the capability to test devices with up to 512 differential input and output signals at 1.6Gb/s or 1024 single-ended signals. This accuracy is required for measuring some of today's communications devices that operate with signals up to 1.25 Gb/s. 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 (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 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 (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 data rates to 1.6 Gbps while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by chipset and network processing applications. About Catalyst Catalyst dominates the SOC market with test capabilities for Mass Storage, Datacom, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , wireless, microwave 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 currently offers wireless devices, quad-site testing, providing the best test economics and most complete array of analog instrumentation. When a cell call is placed, or a PC, printer, scanner, pager or a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. is utilized, Catalyst-tested ICs make it happen. 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. IMAGE is a trademark of Teradyne, Inc. |
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