Wednesday December 2, 8:00 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Teradyne, Inc.
Teradyne Demonstrates Direct Rambus DRAM Testing at SEMICON/Japan
TOKYO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER - news) is demonstrating the high-speed memory test capabilities of its ARIES™ RAM test system at the SEMICON/Japan conference here this week. The demonstration features Toshiba's Direct Rambus™ devices to showcase ARIES' capabilities for engineering and production test of high-speed Direct Rambus DRAMs and SLDRAMs. Teradyne announced that the ARIES system has been selected by multiple DRAM manufacturers for test of Direct Rambus DRAMs.
''Even in a depressed DRAM market, leading manufacturers are making the investments required to ramp up volume production of the next generation Direct RAMBUS and SLDRAM devices,'' said Glenn Farris, ARIES product manager. ''These new high-speed memory architectures require full testing of the memory array through the logic interface at speed in order to achieve the fault coverage demanded by the PC main memory application. The ARIES system, which is equipped with at-speed full algorithmic pattern generation, deep vector memory, and redundancy analysis, was developed specifically to perform this complex testing without the need for pattern reloads, thereby delivering the highest throughput in production.''
Farris noted that ARIES shipments began in December 1997 and have been increasing steadily since then, as manufacturers move from engineering development into volume production of the fast memories. The ARIES RAM test platform tests up to 16 devices in parallel at data rates up to 1.0 G transfers/second, providing the lowest cost to test for the newest-generation devices such as Direct Rambus DRAMs, SLDRAMs, and fast SSRAMs, Farris said. Teradyne was selected by Rambus as a technology partner, and by the SLDRAM consortium as its reference standard test system.
Teradyne is the world's largest manufacturer of automated test equipment (ATE) for the electronics industry. Products include systems to test semiconductors, circuit boards and modules, telephone lines, computerized telephone systems, and software. The Company is also a leading manufacturer of backplanes and associated high-density connectors used in electronic systems. Teradyne supports these products through an extensive service and application engineering network, with technical centers located throughout the United States, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The ARIES memory test system is produced by the Memory Test Division in Agoura Hills, and San Jose California. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Teradyne reported sales of approximately $1.3 billion in 1997 and had 6,300 employees worldwide. The company's Web address is www.teradyne.com.
ARIES is a trademark of Teradyne, Inc. Direct Rambus is a trademark of Rambus, Inc.
SOURCE: Teradyne, Inc.
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