<font color=red>AMD Purchases Tiger Test Systems for Next Generation Devices with
HyperTransport Technology
June 12, 2001 7:19 AM (ET)
BOSTON, Jun 12, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Teradyne, Inc. (TER, Trade)
announcedthat Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD, Trade) has purchased multiple
Tiger TestSystems to test integrated circuits with HyperTransport(TM) technology.
TheHyperTransport technology is designed to reduce bottlenecks; speeding data
flowinside the computers, servers and network switches that power the
Internet.Tiger is the first SOC system offering economical at-speed testing for
emerginghigh speed bus standards like AGP 8X, 1 GHz DDR, HyperTransport
technology andRapid I/O.
"Tiger is a next generation chipset tester," said Calvin Cheung, manager, CoreLogic
Product Development Engineering at AMD. "AMD's productive workingrelationship
with Teradyne led us to select Tiger as our technology evolved.With HyperTransport
technology-based designs and other complex cells on oursilicon roadmap, Tiger's
differential, flexible pin architecture and wide analoginstrument range meet with our
requirements."
"The HyperTransport bus is designed to enable computer chips to communicate
witheach other faster," said Chris Neuts, manager of Technology Evangelism at
AMD."Our new high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link technology
requiresnew test solutions such as Teradyne's Tiger. AMD and our
HyperTransporttechnology licensees need the differential test capability that
products likeTiger offer to get these new devices to market quickly."
"New technologies create new challenges for IC makers," said Jeff
Schneider,Teradyne Marketing Manager. "Products that incorporate technologies
likeHyperTransport often combine multiple asynchronous buses and use I/O
speeds over500 MHz. With Tiger, Teradyne is creating leading edge test solutions
fortomorrow's new technologies, today."
Tiger is the first over 1 Gbps SOC test system. Extending the Catalyst family,Tiger
shares the same high throughput zero-time DSP architecture, IMAGE(TM)software,
and state-of-the-art analog instruments. Powered by breakthroughSilicon
Germanium (SiGe) technology, Tiger sets the standard with Real I/O(TM)data rates
to 1.6 Gbps. Real I/O gives better fault coverage and shorter testtimes through
functional and timing margin checks in a single pattern burst, atany digital data rate.
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