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Advantest Launches New Analog Base Band Test Solution
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Advantest Contributes to Cost-Efficiency with New Test Solution for SoC Base Band Test
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TOKYO, Japan, July 12, 2006 - Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE), today announced that its new Base Band Waveform Generator Digitizer (BBWGD) Module, a cost-effective, high-accuracy test solution that enables testing of SoCs used in consumer electronics, wireless devices, and network peripherals, will be available from September.
The company will exhibit the new analog test module during SEMICON West, held in San Francisco from July 11th to July 13th.
In recent years, the consumer electronics market led by digital televisions and DVD recorders, the cellular telephone market, and the wireless market created by the growth of wireless metropolitan area networks (MANs) and wireless local area networks (LANs) has posted impressive growth rates, a trend which is expected to continue in the future. Meanwhile, the evolution of these applications has driven the development of the SoCs that power them, accelerating the shift to greater quantities of information transmitted, higher speeds, higher functionality, higher pin counts, and broadband capabilities. Thus, when these devices are tested, it is now essential to conduct 100 MHz-class analog tests on a diverse range of pins - video analog signal pins, IF signal pins, base-band signal pins, and more.
As the market for these SoC devices expands, their prices are falling. Semiconductor manufacturers now must cut test costs through massively parallel testing, and thus they need multi-channel analog test modules that support today's multi-pin devices. Moreover, test needs now extend to 100 MHz-class broadband signals unsupported by previously available test equipment.
Responding to these market needs, Advantest has developed the Base Band Waveform Generator Digitizer (BBWGD) Module for its T2000 test platform, and will make the module available from September.
The BBWGD Module enables high-accuracy, low-cost testing of SoC devices, including base band, with Advantest's T2000 test system. Featuring eight differential AWGs (Arbitrary Waveform Generators) and eight differential waveform digitizers, the module is capable of parallel-testing SoC devices with pins that input and output 100 MHz class base band signals, significantly improving test efficiency. Furthermore, by mounting 16 analog test functions on a single board, Advantest has slashed analog test costs by approximately 50% over its own previous model, the VAFGD Module. And in addition, since the BBWGD Module conducts FFT processing and other types of digital signal processing internally, frequency analysis can be performed by the hardware - a function that, with the module's multi-channel capability, contributes to significantly shorter parallel test times.
With the BBWGD Module, Advantest has expanded the benefits of its T2000 test system - the industry's only test platform based on the OPENSTAR 1 open architecture specifications introduced by the not-for-profit Semiconductor Test Consortium - to include analog test capabilities. The company plans the launch of further products positioning the T2000 as the optimal test solution for all types of state-of-the-art devices, including audio band test.
1 OPENSTAR is a registered trademark of the Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc.
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| Waveform Generator |
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8 differential
16 bit / max. 400 Msps
Signal bandwidth: >100 MHz
Waveform memory: 16 Mw |
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| Waveform Digitizer |
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8 differential
16 bit / max. 128 Msps (256 Msps)
Signal bandwidth: >100 MHz
(>300 MHz wideband input)
Waveform memory: 16 Mw |
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| Other Functions |
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Decimation filter
Window function
FFT
Frequency response function |
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All information supplied in this release is correct at the time of publication, but may be subject to change without warning. |
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Advantest Corporation is the world’s leading automatic test equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, and also produces electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems. A global company, Advantest has long offered total ATE solutions, and serves the industry in every component of semiconductor test: tester, handler, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and software. Its logic, memory, mixed-signal and RF testers and device handlers are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor production lines in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its first subsidiary in 1982, in the USA, and now has 40 subsidiaries worldwide. Among them, Advantest America, Inc. is based in Santa Clara, CA., and Advantest (Europe) GmBH is based in Munich, Germany. More information is available at www.advantest.co.jp. |
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