High Bandwidth Access Selects Teradyne Test Systems; Catalyst Tiger and J750 to Test Highest Value, Most Integrated FIFO Queuing Devices on The Market Today.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2001 Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TER Third version. See bis. ) announced today that High Bandwidth Access, Inc. (HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. ), developer of the most advanced FIFO queuing See traffic engineering methods. devices for high capacity broadband networks, has selected Teradyne's Catalyst Tiger and J750 test platforms for characterization and production tests of its FIFO Queuing devices. HBA's queuing architecture provides next generation queuing devices that feature dramatically improved density and bandwidth performance, new functionality for packet management, and quality of service (QoS). "Our FlexQ(TM) products are the communications industry's most advanced FIFO queuing devices used for high capacity broadband networks," said Eddie Chang, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of High Bandwidth Access, Inc. "To fully test the high-performance, highly integrated and complex features designed into our chips, we needed high level test solutions. Teradyne gives us confidence that their test solutions will offer both the memory test capabilities and the best test economics for our FIFO (First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods. FIFO - first-in first-out family of devices. Teradyne's demonstrated expertise in testing this class of devices allows us to guarantee our customers that every unit of product we ship will meet their expectations." Based on an innovative architecture and 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. approach, HBA provides the industry's highest bandwidth (up to 14Gbps) on 3.3V interface devices for today's commonly used communication FIFOs. HBA's feature rich products offer the most cost effective, highest performance queuing, switching and traffic management solutions. HBA's FlexQ family is a direct socket replacement/ improvement for current communication FIFO Queuing devices. These 3.3V interface devices operate at the industry's fastest rate (up to 166Mhz), enabling applications to achieve 10 Gigabit /sec rates for OC-192 optical networking applications. "Continually reducing costs while constantly improving quality and reliability is a must for success in the high-speed broadband networking market. HBA has already set a new industry standard for FIFO Queuing devices and is committed to delivering the highest value products to the market," said Der-Kant Cheng, president of High Bandwidth Access, Inc. "Teradyne's test platforms deliver speed, performance and configuration flexibility which enable us to test our evolving and increasingly complex devices. We also needed to work with a company that has extensive RF experience and a solid reputation for customer service. Teradyne's leading industry position in all these areas fulfilled our requirements," concluded Cheng. Mike Bradley, president of Teradyne's Semiconductor Test Division, said, "Teradyne's test systems cover the largest range of ICs which has helped us win key design-ins with the leading fabless, foundry and subcontractor companies worldwide. We believe that our wide-ranging test solutions, coupled with the experience and global support for fabless semiconductor customers, will only strengthen HBA's leadership role in the queuing device market." About J750 Family of Test Systems The J750 delivers up to 1,024 digital channels in a zero footprint system entirely contained within a test head. Its high-throughput parallel testing capabilities help deliver 95% parallel test efficiency for up to 32 devices. The system offers a suite of options to address the variation of testing needs in the low-end and mid-range semiconductor markets, including the Converter Test Option, Memory Test Option, Mixed-Signal Option, Scan Test Option, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. Option, Redundancy Analysis and APMU APMU Aerial Photographic Mapping Unit (US Army) . Its small footprint and high parallel test throughput provide the most economical approach to testing complex 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. devices with embedded memory and analog cells. The system also features IG-XL test software, the semiconductor ATE industry's first test development suite combining the power and performance of the latest PC technology and Windows NT operating system with the familiarity of standard Windows productivity tools, like Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic. About Catalyst Tiger 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 the standard with Real 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 (TM) data rates to 1.6 Gbps while retaining the timing flexibility at top speed demanded by data and network processing applications. About HBA High Bandwidth Access, Inc. (HBA) is a fabless communications semiconductor company providing the industry's most advanced FIFO queuing and traffic management devices used for high capacity broadband networks. Based on an innovative architecture and ASIC approach, HBA's initial FlexQ(TM) family is the industry's highest bandwidth communications FIFO queuing device on 3.3 interfaces. HBA products also provide the highest density (up to 5MB), lowest cost, and most advanced features in their category. In the future, this architecture will enable Intelligent Queuing for more advanced traffic management functions and even greater performance levels. HBA has partnered with the industry leaders United Microelectronics Corporation UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored institute ITRI. Today, UMC is best known for its merchant foundry business, manufacturing integrated circuits wafers for fabless (NYSE: UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia ) for semiconductor manufacturing and ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. Test Limited (Nasdaq: ASTSF ) for IC packaging and test, ensuring customers of high quality, high capacity, just-in-time delivery, and access to the latest technology. HBA is located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. with offices in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Penang, Malaysia. For more information about HBA, visit the Company's website at http://www.hba.com 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 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 $3.0 billion in 2000 and currently employs about 9000 people worldwide. For more information visit www.teradyne.com. IMAGE is a trademark of Teradyne, Inc. FlexQ is a trademark of High Bandwidth Access, Inc. |
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