Teradyne Partners with Galaxy Semiconductor to Enable Advanced ATE Test Development Solutions.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept 30, 2002 Teradyne (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TER Third version. See bis. ) today announced a partnership with Galaxy Semiconductor centering on the Galaxy Optimizer Suite as part of an on-going program to deliver advanced test program development solutions for Teradyne tester platforms. Teradyne's Test Assistance Group (TAG) will standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on the Galaxy Optimizer tool set for their mixed-signal and SOC test program development. TAG's standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting provides the foundation for worldwide applications support and training for all Teradyne and Galaxy Semiconductors customers. "The production of quality, high-performance test programs is one of our most important deliverables to reduce the cost of test," said Yves Destenaves, Director of the Test Assistance Group. "By standardizing our efforts using the Galaxy Optimizer, we are in a position to deliver efficient test programs to our customers in a shorter period of time." "The semiconductor business constraints and cycles place increasing pressure on time to market and test equipment efficiency," said Philippe Lejeune, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Galaxy Semiconductor. "We find it vital to combine our expertise with the leading supplier of automatic test equipment technology so that our common customers can benefit from solutions, enabling them to further improve their competitiveness." The Galaxy Optimizer, which will be used and supported worldwide by Teradyne's TAG organization, will be the basis of TAG's test program optimization activities. The Optimizer suite significantly reduces the cost of test, through automatic and dynamic test time reduction. "Our customers are seeing a significant test time improvement on their production floors using Optimizer. This is done by applying Galaxy's patented statistical optimization and process control algorithms to the test environment while maintaining stringent correlation standards," stated Jean-Pierre Regis, Galaxy Business Development Manager. The Optimizer also provides for a run-time, dynamic optimization that further improves lot-to-lot test time efficiency. These capabilities are available exclusively for Teradyne testers as a result of this partnership. Teradyne's TAG network of over 500 applications engineers is the test industry's largest engineering support team, with a successful history supporting diverse device technologies with the world's leading IDM (1) See identity management. (2) (Integrated Device Manufacturer) A company that performs every step of the chip-making process, including design, manufacture, test and packaging. Examples of IDMs are Intel, AMD, Motorola, IBM, TI and Lucent. , Fabless, and Subcontractor One who takes a portion of a contract from the principal contractor or from another subcontractor. When an individual or a company is involved in a large-scale project, a contractor is often hired to see that the work is done. semiconductor companies. Local training facilities support TAG's customers throughout the high technology centers in Asia, Europe, and the US. Galaxy Optimizer supports Teradyne's A5 and Catalyst(TM) tester families, including the Catalyst Tiger, the first system to combine next generation LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) A transmission method for sending digital information. LVDS sends data over data high and data low lines rather than data and ground. and SerDes production test capability in a true SOC tester. About Galaxy Semiconductor Galaxy Semiconductor is an international company focused on providing software solutions to the semiconductor industry. Headquartered in Ireland, its facilities are in key locations in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia. Galaxy Semiconductor's focus is to boost the efficiency of test engineers and test equipment assets. The company's unique mix of expertise in semiconductor, industrial software and optimization techniques makes it a partner of choice for semiconductor manufacturers' test cost reduction strategies. By leveraging years of test engineering experience into innovative and patented software tools, Galaxy enables test development engineers to significantly reduce their test times in just a few hours. For further information, visit www.galaxysemi.com. About Teradyne Teradyne 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 An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. 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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