Azalea Selects Nextest for their Advanced Flash Design Application.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003 Nextest Systems Corporation, a leader in the manufacture of automatic test equipment (ATE) for cost-sensitive semiconductors, today announced that Azalea azalea (əzāl`yə) [Gr.,=dry], any species of the genus Rhododendron, North American and Asian shrubs of the family Ericaceae (heath family) that are distinguished by the usually deciduous leaves. Microelectronics has selected the Maverick Maverick family name of two brothers, Bret and Bait; self-centered and untrustworthy gentlemen gamblers. [TV: Terrace, II, 80] See : Gambling PT for their engineering and design verification of flash memory devices. Azalea Microelectronics, developer of FlashEE technology, designs and verifies next generation flash for the automotive, cellular and wireless markets. The company focuses on low-voltage operation, high speed, and mixed flash and EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. memories. The Maverick PT test system will be used in their engineering and design center 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. . "The flash memory business places increasing pressures on time to market and test economics," said Ali Pourkeramati, President of Azalea Microelectronics. "We find it vital to combine our design expertise with the right level of test technology so that our customers benefit from solutions enabling them to further improve their competitiveness. The Maverick PT from Nextest fits our test requirements and business model perfectly." Tim Moriarty, Nextest's Vice President of Sales said "The Maverick PT with its unique technology and flexible architecture, to test low-voltage and low-power flash memory, is the ideal solution for Azalea. We are looking forward to working with Azalea to help support their development of IP technologies." About Azalea Azalea Microelectronics Corporation is a Silicon Valley company that has developed a breakthrough flash memory technology that provides significant advantages in embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. flash and applications specific flash memory product for Telecommunications, Consumer and Automotive applications. Azalea's low-power and low-voltage operating technology combines true EEPROM and flash memory in one technology. Azalea's experienced team of professionals will leverage its unique technology, to become the leading supplier of application specific flash memory products. Azalea holds several key patents in the area of flash technology and design. For more information please visit www.azaleamc.com. About Nextest Nextest Systems Corporation is the low-cost leader in the design and manufacturing of ATE for non-volatile memory Refers to memory chips that hold their content without power being applied. It may refer to chips that are not changeable, such as ROMs and PROMs, or to chips that can be rewritten many times such as flash memory. , micro-controllers, 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. and System-on-a-chip (SOC) semiconductors. Its products uniquely address the growing demand for increased speeds, reliability, functionality and capacity, while reducing time to market and the cost of test. Nextest has approximately 900 systems installed worldwide. Further information is available at www.nextest.com. |
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