MILPITAS, Calif., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Credence Systems
Corporation (Nasdaq: CMOS), a leading provider of test solutions from
design to production for the worldwide semiconductor industry, today
announced its Modulated Vector Network Analysis (MVNA(TM)) RF measurement
option for the new Sapphire(TM) D-40 test system. The MVNA RF option
further expands the capabilities of the Sapphire D series by adding
wireless test capabilities for mobile phone, WLAN, WiMaX, and Zigbee
devices.
The dramatic growth of mobile communication, mobile computing, and
wireless personal area networks (WPAN) continues to bring stringent cost
pressures to device manufacturers. The increasing complexity of the
advanced single chip and system-in-package (SiP) designs used in today's
wireless applications demands test systems to be massively parallel,
flexible and expandable to meet industry test-cost and time-to-market
requirements. The Sapphire D-40 system with the MVNA RF option meets these
emerging test challenges, delivering four times the parallelism of
competing test systems on the market today.
"The MVNA RF option for the Sapphire D-40 test system leverages
Credence's leading-edge MVNA technology, while significantly expanding the
number of test sites to address the demands of multi-site applications
through 6 GHz," said Dave Ranhoff, president and chief executive officer of
Credence Systems Corporation. "The Sapphire D-40 offers both 16 and 32 port
RF options, allowing our customers to move beyond the traditional dual and
quad site test configurations common in today's wireless device testing."
The MVNA RF option from Credence builds upon its widespread adoption
first introduced in the ASL 3000RF. The MVNA RF architecture is a
proprietary integration of technologies, including distributed signal
processing, encapsulated measurement algorithms, and high performance front
end electronics to deliver the utmost RF measurement accuracy with the
extremely short test times. The MVNA RF option provides highly efficient
test program development with advanced signal processing algorithms that
include modulation waveforms and EVM measurements for a wide range of
wireless communication standards such as W-CDMA, WiMax, 802.11n, and
others.
Available in both 16 and 32 port versions, the MVNA RF option offers
frequency coverage through 6 GHz. With 4 to 8 parallel receivers, the MVNA
RF option allows efficient multi-site testing, taking advantage of its DSP
engine per receiver architecture to deliver parallelism with truly parallel
processing. Its innovative RF source multiplexer technology enables full
flexibility for ease of multi-site application development utilizing up to
4 RF sources.
The MVNA RF option for the Sapphire D-40 is shipping and available
today.
About Sapphire D-40
The latest addition to its industry-leading Sapphire platform, the
Sapphire D-40 combines analog, digital, mixed-signal and RF test
instrumentation. Offering from 10 to 40 slots, the Sapphire D-40 can
support pin counts to well over 3000 pins for the most demanding multi-site
applications. Leveraging the proprietary Credence integration technologies
first introduced in the award-winning Sapphire D-10, its expandable data
path architecture and high density instruments combine to offer tremendous
throughput with the utmost economics.
About Credence
Credence Systems Corporation is a leading provider of debug,
characterization and ATE solutions for the global semiconductor industry.
With a commitment to applying innovative technology to lower the
cost-of-test, Credence delivers competitive cost and performance advantages
to integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), wafer foundries, outsource
assembly and test (OSAT) suppliers and fabless chip companies worldwide. A
global, ISO 9001- certified company with a presence in 20 countries,
Credence is headquartered in Milpitas, California. More information is
available at http://www.credence.com.
Credence is a registered trademark, and Credence Systems, Sapphire and
MVNA are trademarks of Credence Systems Corporation. Other trademarks that
may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their
respective owners.
Media Relations Contact:
Judy Dale
Vice President, Marketing Communications and Investor Relations
Credence Systems Corporation
Phone: 408-635-4309
FAX: 408-635-4986
E-mail: judy_dale@credence.com
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CONTACT:
Judy Dale, Vice President, Marketing
Communications and Investor Relations, of Credence Systems
Corporation, +1-408-635-4309, FAX: +1- 408-635-4986, or
judy_dale@credence.com
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