Agere Uses Teradyne's Tiger Test Systems for High-Performance Data Storage System-on-a-Chip Devices.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2002 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, AGR.B) is using Teradyne's Tiger test systems in multi-site production testing of mass storage system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices. Agere Systems offers a complete portfolio of storage components, including integrated SOCs, read channels, preamplifier Preamplifier A voltage amplifier suitable for operation with a low-level input signal. It is intended to be connected to another amplifier with a higher input level. ICs and motor controllers for hard disk drives. Industry analyst firm IDC recently ranked Agere as the No. 1 supplier of preamplifier and read channel 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. (ICs) worldwide for storage applications. Agere's focus on signal integrity requires that its devices offer exceptional reliability and signal-to-noise ratio The ratio of the power or volume (amplitude) of a signal to the amount of unwanted interference (the noise) that has mixed in with it. Measured in decibels, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) measures the clarity of the signal in a circuit or a wired or wireless transmission channel. (SNR See signal-to-noise ratio. SNR - signal-to-noise ratio ) performance. Teradyne's Tiger system provides Agere with the throughput and test coverage necessary for improving manufacturing efficiency and ensuring the quality of its sophisticated SOC devices. "Teradyne Tiger's mixed-signal architecture enables Agere to overcome the challenges associated with multi-site SOC testing by offering excellent device throughput," said Sandeep Kumar, director of test engineering for Agere's Storage division. "Teradyne's Tiger system offers the technology and performance to test next-generation systems-on-a-chip." "Mass Storage is one of today's most economically demanding markets," said Tony Mandia, Mass Storage Business Unit Manager, Teradyne. "It is undergoing a revolution to SOC, coupling system-level digital technology with some of the highest performance analog capabilities on devices. As a leader in this market, Agere needs to provide quality-tested devices for its customers while continuing to address test economics. With its industry leading analog instrumentation and quad-site test capability, our Tiger system helps Agere reduce manufacturing costs." About Tiger Catalyst Tiger is the first over 1 Gbps SOC test system. Extending the Catalyst Family, Tiger offers the flexibility and scalability required by leading fabless subcontractors and integrated device manufacturers by providing economical at-speed testing for a variety of leading edge devices. Tiger offers up to 1024 digital pins and data rates to 3.2Gbps while combining unequaled analog test capability, timing flexibility, and programmable speed enabling all in one versatile platform. 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 See IP phone, softphone and VoIP. 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. |
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