LogicVision and Advantest to Develop Tester Support for Embedded Test Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001 Advantest Joins LogicVision Ready(TM) Partner Program LogicVision, Inc., the leading IP provider of embedded test solutions, addressing IC design, IC manufacturing, system design and re-use, and Advantest, a leading automatic test equipment supplier and producer of electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems, announced a partnership to develop and market products that will link LogicVision's Embedded Test Solutions(TM) with Advantest's automatic test equipment. The integrated capability will run on the tester to access and control the on-chip embedded test functionality and will enhance SOC test and diagnosis. Embedded test enables more efficient design and manufacture of complex semiconductors, and is an important step toward enabling SOC test. "We are pleased to join the ranks of LogicVision's premier partners for delivering mission-critical embedded test solutions to customers worldwide, and we fully support LogicVision's methodology and solutions," said Paul Patton, Product Engineering director of Advantest America, Inc. "As we move forward on extending our tester resources for on-chip embedded test, our customers can leverage these integrated test methodologies for SOC test systems." LogicVision established the LogicVision Ready(TM) Partner Program to provide mutual customers of LogicVision and its LogicVision Ready Partners with embedded test solutions for test and diagnosis of complex ASICs and SOCs. LogicVision and Advantest have recently inked an agreement in which Advantest will join the LogicVision Ready partner program -- also endorsed by other test equipment manufacturers. A complete list of LogicVision Ready partners, including EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. and chipmaker partners, can be found on LogicVision's web site. "The alliance with Advantest for the LogicVision Ready program will be invaluable in helping the industry meet the increasingly aggressive demands for cost-effective IC manufacturing test solutions and improvements in time-to-market," said Mukesh Mowji, LogicVision's vice president of Manufacturing Business. "Our LogicVision Ready Partner Program is an essential part of our plan to provide complete integrated test solutions that incorporate the benefits of LogicVision's embedded test technology and the partner's ATE technology." About Advantest Advantest Corporation is a leading supplier of automatic test equipment to the worldwide 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: testers, handlers, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and software. Its testers and device handlers for logic, memory, mixed-signal, and RF ICs are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor fabrication lines in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest Corporation is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange Main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo. It opened in 1878 to provide a market for the trading of government bonds newly issued to former samurai. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 6857) and was ranked number 250 in a recent Business Week survey of the world's largest corporations, measured on market capitalization. Most of the Fortune 500 semiconductor manufacturers are Advantest customers. For more information please visit www.advantest.com. About LogicVision Inc. LogicVision provides proprietary technologies for embedded test that enable the more efficient design and manufacture of complex semiconductors. LogicVision's embedded test solution allows integrated circuit designers to embed into a semiconductor design test functionality that can be used during semiconductor production and throughout the useful life of the chip. For more information on the company and its products, please visit the LogicVision website at www.logicvision.com. ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS: ATE: Automatic Test Equipment ATPG ATPG Automatic Test Pattern Generation ATPG Automatic Test Program Generator : Automatic Test Pattern Generation ATPG (acronym for both Automatic Test Pattern Generation and Automatic Test Pattern Generator) is an electronic design automation method/technology used to find an input (or test) sequence that, when applied to a digital BIST BIST - Built-in Self Test : Built-in-Self-Test DFT DFT - discrete Fourier transform : Design-for-Test EDA: Electronic Design Automation HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. : Hardware Description Language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. IC: Integrated Circuit RTL: Register Transfer-Level VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. : VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "viz-ick." Ultra-high-speed chips employing LSI and VLSI technologies. The term comes from the name of the program launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1980 to advance digital IC technology. (Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit) HDL IP: Intellectual Property SOC: System-on-chip |
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