Verigy recently announced that King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) has ordered and installed several of its V93000 SOC testers with pin-scale digital cards for testing high-volume semiconductors used in RF-based mobile computing.
Verigy's V93000 Port Scale RF system provides parallel test capability with high multi-site efficiency to deliver satisfying throughput and low cost-of-test. In addition to supporting KYEC's initial testing needs for RF-based semiconductors, these systems also can be adapted to test graphics devices and mixed-signal ICs, the company said.
Verigy claimed its V93000 platform is the only test equipment at KYEC with a full utilization rate. Using Verigy's pin-scale cards, each tester's performance can be fine-tuned for a specific type of IC, giving KYEC the versatility to test a wide variety of semiconductors ranging from low-integration devices such as power amplifiers, tuners and transceivers up to high-integration RF devices containing integrated mixed-signal, digital, power management and embedded or stacked memory.
"Our partnership with KYEC is a successful model for mutually beneficial cooperation between an equipment user and supplier," said Pascal Ronde, Verigy's VP of worldwide sales, service and support. "With this latest system installation, KYEC is now able to increase its RF SOC testing business with both IDMs and fabless semiconductor companies at its facilities in Hsinchu and Chu-Bei, Taiwan."