TSMC Buys Teradyne Test Systems

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) is purchasing multiple Catalyst test systems from Teradyne Inc. The superchip test systems will be used for testing advanced mixed-signal, multimedia, telecom, mass storage, and other system silicon devices for products such as computers, modems, communications equipment and optical and magnetic disk drives. The first system was installed at TSMC's North-site facility in Taiwan earlier this year with subsequent shipments installed in July 1998.

With per-pin VLSI digital, embedded memory test, and DC-to-microwave analog in a single system, Catalyst helps speed superchips to market in DSP, wireless, mixed-signal ASIC, multimedia, set-top box, disk, and LAN applications. Catalyst's parallel computing architecture (PaCE and zero-time FlexDSP) brings parallel test economics to system-on-a-chip devices.