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Advantest Announces Availability of New RF Test Solution
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Low Cost Test of Multi-port RF Devices on the T2000 Test System
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TOKYO, Japan, October 18th, 2007 - Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE), today announced that its new RF test solution will be available as of November 2007, offering highly accurate, low cost testing for multi-port RF SoC devices used widely in cellular phones and increasingly important to the rapidly expanding wireless product and equipment market.
Advantest's 12GHz Wideband Signal Generator/Analyzer module is the industry's first RF test solution that is fully integrated: A single 12GHz module resident in the test head with the industry's highest RF port density (32 per module) and multiple unique RF vectored sources and signal analyzers. This cutting-edge RF test technology gives semiconductor producers high performance and flexibility at low cost, providing an excellent return on investment.
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Meets Need to Cost-Effectively Test Wideband-capable ICs for Expanding Market
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Wireless technology is proliferating beyond cellular phones and laptop computers, to games consoles and other new applications. Standards such as WiMAX (an 802.16e standard)* and MIMO** technology, which enable large volumes of data to be wirelessly transmitted at high speed, will become more widespread beginning in 2008. In turn, new wireless infrastructure capabilities demand Sytems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) with higher levels of functional sophistication in conjunction with RF capabilities. Leading-edge SoC designs, including RF and MIMO technology for mobile phone transceiver ICs, require more RF signal ports. Conventional test solutions cannot deal with these increasing numbers of ports per IC and therefore cannot perform cost-effective parallel test of these devices. This has resulted in a demand for test systems that can test RF SoC devices with high throughput and increased parallelism, resulting in lower cost of test and the development of Advantest's new RF test solution.
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The WiMAX (World Interoperability for Microwave Access) standard is a new wireless communications system for both fixed and mobile communications. It has a coverage range of radius 50km (31 miles) and data transfer speeds of 70Mbps. |
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MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) is the method of using multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver for multiplexed, reliable, high speed communications. |
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Advantest's new RF test solution responds to the need to reduce the cost of test while meeting the test challenges of sophisticated SoC devices. For use with Advantest's OPENSTAR® standard-based T2000 test platform, the new 12GHz Wideband Signal Generator/Analyzer module enables high precision, flexible testing of RF SoC devices.
Among its other features are:
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More ports for greatly enhanced test efficiency |
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With 32 RF signal input/output ports per module (expandable to 128 ports with the simple installation of additional modules), multi-port RF devices can be tested in parallel. Offering 16-device simultaneous test of current mainstream RF devices consisting of 4-8 ports, it also supports 4-device parallel testing of 16-port multi-band RF devices, which is the wideband wireless technology that will become widespread starting in 2008.
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Guaranteed high repeatability of test |
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Thanks to Advantest's newly developed high-speed test algorithm, its new test solution offers enhanced repeatability, resulting in even greater test accuracy and reduced test times.
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Testing of all RF SoC device signals with just one test system |
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By using the T2000 12GHz Wideband Signal Generator/Analyzer module in combination with Advantest's existing 800Mbps Digital and Base Band Waveform Generator Digitizer (BBWDG) modules, all RF SoC device signal tests can be conducted on a single test system, accurately and at low cost.
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Advantest is committed to helping its customers enhance their competitiveness, and will continue tailoring products to their diverse needs, offering high quality test solutions to be used with the T2000 test system.
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OPENSTAR® is a registered trademark of the Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. in the USA, Japan and other countries. |
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Vector Signal Generator |
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Frequency Range |
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100MHz - 6GHz |
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Signal Output Level |
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+8dBm - -120dBm |
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RF Ports |
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16 (4x4 MUX) |
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Modulation Bandwidth |
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40MHz |
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Vector Signal Analyzer |
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Frequency Range |
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100MHz - 12GHz |
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Signal Input Level |
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+17dBm |
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RF Ports |
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16 (4x4 MUX) |
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Average Noise Floor |
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-153dBm/Hz |
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Enquiries about this product should be directed to:
ATE Solution Business Department at 81-3-3214-7505 |
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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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