Asahikasei EMD First To Select Teradyne's New UltraFLEX-HD Test System With UltraPin800 And UltraWave12G Instrumentation Suite
NORTH READING, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER - News) announced today that Asahikasei EMD(AKEMD), the world's premier supplier of audio ICs for professional and consumer markets, has purchased several new UltraFLEX-HD™ systems for testing RF SOC devices. The UltraFLEX-HD is the newest member of the UltraFLEX family of test systems, and supports all existing UltraFLEX instrumentation in a compatible small footprint 12-slot test system.
AKEMD also purchased the new UltraPin800 digital instrument and the UltraWave™ 12G wireless test instrument for their UltraFLEX-HD systems. AKEMD is the first customer to select the UltraFLEX-HD system with the new instrumentation suite for testing RF devices.
"Teradyne's UltraFLEX-HD system offers us a test cost reduction with its support for high multisite test in a small footprint. We appreciate the compact size of the system, it allows us to minimize our production floor space without compromising performance," said Mr. Toshikazu Suzuki, director, chief design and development officer, Asahikasei EMD Corporation. "As we look to increase the complexity of our RF devices and expand our product offerings, the UltraPin800 and UltraWave 12G instruments provide us with the best test economics and help reduce our time to market for multisite applications. I believe we made the right choice of platform and digital instrumentation to support our current and future business goals."
"Teradyne's new instrumentation suite extends the UltraFLEX™ system capabilities for high efficiency parallel test for complex SOCs," said Gregory Smith, manager of Teradyne's Broadband and Computing Business Unit. "We remain committed to providing customers with industry leading performance, high throughput and multisite test efficiency essential to achieving the lowest cost of test. In addition, the scalability of the FLEX® platform allows us to expand our product offerings to anticipate growing market demand in current and new application areas."
The UltraPin800 digital instrument extends the parallel test capability of the UltraFLEX family of test systems by doubling the number of pins per instrument. With the UltraPin800, the system features up to 256 M Vector Memory, 800 Mbps performance and digital source and capture capability which reduces test program development time and increases multisite throughput for a wide range of digital and mixed signal devices.
In the first three months of production, the UltraPin800 has been used by multiple customers for RF SOC, optical disk drive, digital television, graphics processor and audio processor applications. Teradyne has delivered more than 100 UltraPin800 instruments to customers in North America, Europe and Asia.
Available on the UltraFLEX test platform, the UltraWave 12G offers wireless customers 12 GHz source and measurement performance. It offers the widest range of test and measurement capability to cover complex microwave test requirements for RFIC and RF SOC devices, including wireless LAN, Bluetooth®, 3G cellular, and new emerging standards like 4G cellular and ultrawideband. UltraWave 12G was introduced in early March of this year and Teradyne has received orders from multiple customers for the product. For more technical information on the UltraWave, you may visit the Teradyne website at http://www.teradyne.com/flex/UltraWave.html.
About Asahikasei EMD Corporation
Asahikasei EMD (AKEMD) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Asahikasei Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Asahikasei EMD is the core operating company for all electronics materials and devices operations of the Asahikasei Group. The company serves the global electronics industry with a range of essential products which meet the latest emerging performance demands.
For more information, visit http://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/akemd/en/index.html
About Teradyne
Teradyne (NYSE:TER - News) is a leading supplier of Automatic Test Equipment used to test complex electronics used in the consumer electronics, automotive, computing, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense industries. In 2007, Teradyne had sales of $1.1 billion and currently employs about 3,600 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.teradyne.com. Teradyne® is a registered trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other product names are trademarks of Teradyne, Inc. (including its subsidiaries). BlueTooth® is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
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