AMI Semiconductor Picks Teradyne FLEX Test Platform For Automotive Devices

North Reading, MA - Teradyne, Inc., a world leader in high efficiency, low-cost test, announced AMI Semiconductor has standardized on the Teradyne FLEX test platform to test its industry leading automotive devices. As part of the agreement, AMIS purchased multiple microFLEX systems with DC90 and Precision Octal Op-Amp Loop (POOL2) instrumentation for their Calamba, Philippines location and all test development centers world wide. AMIS, a top ten supplier of automotive power semiconductors, will use the FLEX test platform to test industrial and automotive devices used in a wide range of applications including stability control, in-vehicle networking, X-by wire and various power switching applications.

"Automotive manufacturers look to produce devices at a zero parts per million defect rate. We chose Teradyne for our automotive device test needs because the FLEX platform delivers the accuracy and rigorous quality we need for our production test standards," said Craig Nelson, director, mixed signal test development, AMIS. "Our confidence in the test quality and multisite test capabilities give us a powerful combination of reliability and improved test economics – that's why we test with Teradyne."

"Teradyne recognizes that automotive device manufacturers have specialized test needs around quality," said Eric Kaled, power and automotive segment manager, Semiconductor Test Division, Teradyne. "We continue to solidify our leadership in this important market segment with instrumentation on the FLEX Test Platform that delivers the quality and test accuracy an automotive semiconductor leader like AMIS requires."

Teradyne's FLEX test platform, which has surpassed 1300 test systems shipped, advances test technologies in an architecture designed for high-efficiency, multisite test. The FLEX platform's DC90 option delivers both high voltage and high current capability in an instrument with unparalleled density that reduces cost of test for automotive power management, industrial/consumer motor controller and power switch semiconductors. For the high parallel test requirements of the precision analog market segment, the POOL2 option provides six different multichannel instruments integrated into a single instrument board. The POOL2 can make extremely low, accurate, and repeatable voltage, current and timing measurements not available with other instruments at the same level of density. To learn more about the FLEX Platform, visit http://www.teradyne.com/flex/.

SOURCE: Teradyne, Inc.