Global Unichip Adds Verigy V101 as a Test Solution for Low-Cost, High-Volume Consumer Devices
January 07 2010 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company,
today announced that Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), a leading
system-on-a-chip (SOC) design foundry, has chosen the Verigy V101,
a new low-cost, zero-footprint, 100 MHz system as one of its future
platforms for testing development. GUC intends to use the V101 for
its higher parallelism and throughput, and its ease-of-use makes
software and test program development more cost-effective.
"As a leading design foundry, GUC designs complicated SOC
devices with millions of gates and high-speed interfaces,” said
Jerry Tzou, GUC’s vice president of product operations. “We already
use Verigy’s V93000 platform for testing our customers’ complex
SOCs. As a long-standing Verigy customer, we are pleased to partner
with the company to provide more value to our end customers with
the V101, which provides the efficiency and ease-of-use that are
critical for this segment."
"Verigy’s history of innovation allows us to deliver the best
solutions in the industry,” said Pascal Ronde, vice president of
sales, support and service, Verigy. “With the addition of the V101,
we have expanded our SOC served available market by $400 million in
2010, based on market figures from leading analysts. We are pleased
that GUC has recognized that the V101 may offer better overall
value and we look forward to strengthening our relationship with
GUC as they endeavor to drive the V101 downstream.”
Industry’s Best Solution for the Cost-Sensitive
Market
The V101 is designed to deliver effective and economical
production testing of very-low-cost IC devices used in a wide
variety of low-end mobile communications and consumer products. The
V101 operates at up to a 100 MHz clock rate with up to 1,024 I/O
channels delivering the performance needed to effectively and
economically test today’s most cost-sensitive ICs and
microcontrollers.
Its unique Tester-on-BoardTM architecture simplifies the tester
hardware and configuration by placing the digital and DC resources
directly on the board. This architecture supports multi-site
efficiency with high throughput at lower test costs. The V101 uses
standardized components that make it easy to setup and maintain,
while its architecture makes it easy to expand or reduce capacity
on the V101 as customers’ requirements change.
It is the only test system on the market today optimized for
wafer sort with a direct probing feature, resulting in a
significant cost savings, greater signal fidelity and simplified
production setup at wafer sort.
The V101 uses Verigy’s proven StylusTM operating system
software, which is easy to learn and use. Stylus features direct
EDA links for shorter program development time. Its STIL-based test
programming simplifies test conversions of other STIL-based
programs and, when combined with deep vector and capture memories,
helps to reduce program development time significantly.
More information is available at www.verigy.com/go/v101.
About Global Unichip
Corp.
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC, TW:3443), a dedicated one-stop, full
service SoC (System On Chip) Design Foundry, was founded in 1998 at
Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. With close to U.S. $300 million
revenue in 2008 and 400+ people on its engineering team, GUC
provides total solutions from silicon-proven IP to complex
time-to-market SoC design, production, and testing services. With
an experienced technical team, GUC ensures the highest quality and
lowest risks to achieve first silicon success. GUC has established
a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan, Korea,
North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs
has brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest
risk. With TSMC as the major shareholder, GUC has close and
complementary relationships with other key packaging and testing
partners to be further committed to presenting the most advanced
and the best price-performance silicon solutions. For more
information, please visit http://www.globalunichip.com.
About Verigy
Verigy provides advanced semiconductor test systems and
solutions used by leading companies worldwide in design
validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test.
Verigy offers scalable platforms for a wide range of
SOC test solutions, and memory test solutions for
Flash, DRAM including high-speed memories, as well as
multi-chip packages (MCP). Verigy provides advanced analysis tools
that accelerate design debug and yield ramp processes. Additional
information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.
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