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Tester Will Enable Bay Area Lab to Expand Offerings to Address AI and HPC Device Test Requirements
TOKYO, Nov. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) today announced that longtime customer ISE Labs (Fremont, Calif.) has purchased a V93000 EXA Scale SoC Test System. The EXA Scale system joins existing earlier-generation V93000 systems on ISE Labs’ 24/7 test floor, where the company provides production test services for digital, mixed-signal, analog, RF and SoC devices on a wide variety of test platforms.
ISE Labs will implement the new EXA Scale system, configured with Advantest’s newest Pin Scale 5000 digital card and XPS256 power supply, to test advanced digital ICs up to the exascale performance class. EXA Scale is fully compatible with ISE Labs’ existing V93000 systems, load boards and test instruments, allowing the test house to smoothly transition to the EXA Scale generation while optimizing the utilization of its test resources.
Jeff Thompson, vice president, ISE Labs, said, “With the V93000 EXA Scale tester, we can expand our already robust services to address the stringent testing parameters for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. As chips grow more complex, the EXA Scale system enables us to address the unique, next-generation test requirements of these rapidly growing markets.”
With 256 channels on the Pin Scale 5000 digital card and XPS256 power supply card, density is doubled while maintaining the V93000’s highly integrated form factor. High-multisite configurations can be implemented in physically smaller test heads, reducing infrastructure cost and floor space requirements. Using Advantest’s patented Xtreme Link™ technology, the V93000 EXA Scale system delivers high-speed data connections, embedded computing power, and instant card-to-card communication.
“The amount of data being processed continues to proliferate, creating new testing challenges such as very high scan-data volumes,” said Sanjeev Mohan, senior executive officer with Advantest. “Our V93000 EXA Scale was designed specifically to test the ICs being developed to process all of this data while addressing scan-data, yield-learning and multisite configuration requirements. This move to EXA Scale expands our relationship with ISE Labs and enables them to leverage their proven production test capabilities for new markets.”
Launched in 2000, the flexible, scalable V93000 is Advantest's flagship SoC test platform. The company offers a wide range of V93000 options together with complementary test instruments – including universal analog and digital test cards, RF instrumentation and mixed-signal cards, and best-in-class DPS and floating-power VI cards – as well as the user-friendly SmarTest system software environment.