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To: ALTERN8 who wrote (4)	5/21/2003 10:24:06 AM
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Press Release Tripath Technology Purchases Credence's ASL 3000 for Mixed-Signal Test Wednesday May 21, 9:01 am ET FREMONT, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Credence Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: CMOS - News), a leading provider of solutions from design-to-production test for the worldwide semiconductor industry, today announced that Tripath Technology Inc. has purchased the ASL 3000(TM) test system. Tripath Technology, a leader in digital signal processing and power processing solutions, chose the system for its ability to test consumer audio and digital subscriber line (DSL) devices at a lower overall cost-of-test than competitive systems. The trend for more portable and mobile applications has created a large demand for more power-efficient analog integrated circuits (ICs) used in PC, consumer and communications devices, such as computers, audio/video equipment, DSL modems and set-top boxes. This increasing demand is forecasted to drive revenue of the consumer mixed-signal market to surpass $4 billion by 2006, according to IC Insights. A derivative of Credence's highly successful ASL Series(TM), the ASL 3000 features a new multi-band analog instrument set designed to provide wideband capture and analog source performance at a low cost for industrial and consumer applications such as audio codec 97 (AC '97), DSL and CMOS/CCD converters. Integrating audio-video digitizer (AVD(TM)) and arbitrary waveform generator (AWG(TM)) instrument cards into the ASL 3000 enables the system to deliver high-performance audio through video testing capabilities using a single instrument set. The ASL 3000 provides Tripath Technology with the flexibility and precision needed to measure the complex signals used in its devices, while providing enhanced parallel testing capabilities for shorter test times and improved throughput. "Credence's new analog instrument set significantly extends the ASL 3000's performance, while maintaining its cost advantage over competing systems," said John Parsels, test engineering manager at Tripath Technology. "We decided to move testing off competing ATE and onto Credence's ASL 3000 based on the system's ability to make several critical noise and distortion measurements, helping us meet our commitments to key customers. Not only does Credence provide us with a test system that easily meets our current and future performance requirements, they offer a level of customer support and applications engineering unsurpassed by other ATE vendors." "Providing a new and unique approach to mixed-signal testing, the ASL 3000 allows our customers to significantly enhance the quality of analog measurements," said Dr. Graham Siddall, Credence's chairman and chief executive officer. "Today's increasing IC integration and pricing pressure on consumer mixed-signal devices require manufacturers to employ low-cost test systems that provide the high levels of performance and throughput traditionally found in much larger ATE. The ASL 3000 is the first test system to address this challenge and enables manufacturers to test a full range of in-demand audio/visual applications on a single platform to reduce their costs for capital equipment."