OKI Selects Verigy V93000 Port Scale RF for Performance, Low Cost of Test, Fast Time-to-Volume
CUPERTINO, CA, November 26, 2007
Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a semiconductor test company, has announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6703) has purchased the Verigy Port Scale RF Solution for testing its highly integrated wireless communications devices. OKI’s devices are used by consumer electronics manufacturers for a wide range of end products including set-top boxes, cell phones, and PDAs. OKI also offers packaging and test services to other manufacturers, and the Port Scale RF will be a valuable addition to its test services business as well.
OKI is among the first companies to adopt the Verigy Port Scale RF Solution. Today, more than 25 devices from eight of the top 10 RF semiconductor suppliers(1) are being developed on Port Scale RF for production release in the next few months. These devices include some of today’s most challenging new 3G and 4G technologies, such as UWB and WiMAX, as well as current technologies including Bluetooth, GPS navigation, and ZigBee.
“To continue providing our customers with the best quality devices for today's complex, high-speed wireless communications applications, we need a test solution that ensures high reliability while providing lower cost of test and fast time-to-volume,” said Katsumi Onaru, general manager, ATP Manufacturing Division, OKI. “Port Scale RF solution meets all of our requirements for performance, cost, and support. The inherent flexibility of the V93000 platform means it also will meet future requirements for next-generation devices as well.”
“With Port Scale RF, Verigy delivers the first ‘testhead-integrated’ multiport solution for cost-effectively testing highly integrated RF devices,” said Pascal Ronde, vice president of sales, service and support at Verigy. “We are pleased to have OKI join the many companies that have already selected and qualified Port Scale RF, making it the new standard for testing a range of complex RF SOCs and RF SIPs, including the latest 3G and 4G technologies.”
About Verigy Port Scale RF
The Port Scale RF Solution for the V93000 SOC Test Platform provides the measurement capability required to test emerging high-integration semiconductor devices containing integrated RF, mixed-signal, digital, power management, and embedded or stacked memory with one test system. Port Scale RF delivers the following:
- High throughput RF instruments with leading multisite efficiency.
- Proven performance, repeatability, and stability that improves device yields and quality of test.
- Scalable, parallel test.
About the Verigy V93000
The Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing SOCs, SIPs, and high-speed memory devices. The V93000, with more than 1,500 RF-ready systems installed worldwide, meets the industry’s demanding performance and cost challenges, whether for at-speed engineering characterization or high-volume production. The test system provides low cost-of-test with multisite capabilities with data rates up to 12.8 Gb/s and supports a full range of digital, mixed-signal, RF, and wireless applications such as cellular, WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB.
About Oki Electric
Founded in 1881, Oki Electric is Japan’s first telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. OKI provides top-quality products, technologies, and solutions to its customers through its info-telecom system business, semiconductor business, and printer business. Visit OKI's website at www.oki.com/.
About Verigy
Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services advanced test systems and solutions for the memory and SOC segments of the semiconductor industry. Verigy’s scalable platform systems are used by semiconductor companies worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Formerly part of Agilent Technologies, the company began doing business as Verigy in 2006. Information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.
(1) As listed in the iSuppli Wireless IC Market Share Report, May 2007.