Advantest Announces the Industry's First, Fully Integrated Single-Module RF Solution; Expands Suite of Leading-Edge SoC Consumer
2007年10月18日 - 9:57PM
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New Module Provides Low-cost Test of Multi-port RF Devices for the
T2000 Open Architecture Test Platform SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 18
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advantest Corporation
(TSE:6857TSE:NYSE:TSE:ATE) today is announcing its new RF test
solution for highly accurate, low-cost testing of multi-port RF SoC
devices, used widely in cellular phones and of increasing
importance to the rapidly expanding wireless product and equipment
market. Advantest's 12GHz Wideband Signal Generator/Analyzer
(12GWSGA) RF module is the industry's first RF test solution that
is fully integrated: A single 12GHz module resident in the test
head with the industry's highest RF port density (32 per module)
and multiple unique RF vectored sources and signal analyzers. This
cutting-edge RF test technology gives semiconductor producers high
performance and flexibility at low cost, providing an excellent
return on investment. Meets Need to Cost-Effectively Test
Wideband-capable ICs for Expanding Market Wireless technology is
proliferating beyond cellular phones and laptop computers, to game
consoles and other new applications. Standards such as WiMAX (an
802.16e standard)* and MIMO** technology, which enable large
volumes of data to be wirelessly transmitted at high speed, will
become more widespread beginning in 2008. In turn, new wireless
infrastructure capabilities demand Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) with
higher levels of functional sophistication in conjunction with RF
capabilities. Leading-edge SoC designs, including RF and MIMO
technology for mobile phone transceiver ICs, require more RF ports.
Conventional test solutions cannot deal with these increasing
numbers of ports per IC and therefore cannot perform cost-effective
parallel test of these devices. This has resulted in a demand for
test systems that can test RF SoC devices with high throughput and
increased parallelism, resulting in lower cost of test and the
development of Advantest's new RF test solution. Product Features
Advantest's new RF test solution responds to the need to reduce the
cost of test while meeting the test challenges of sophisticated SoC
devices. For use with Advantest's OPENSTAR(R) standard-based T2000
test platform, the new 12GHz WSGA RF Module enables high-precision,
flexible testing of RF SoC devices. Among its other features are:
-- More ports for greatly enhanced test efficiency With 32 RF
signal input/output ports per module (expandable to 128 ports with
the simple installation of additional modules), multi-port RF
devices can be tested in parallel. Offering 16-device simultaneous
testing of current mainstream RF devices, consisting of 4-to-8
ports, it also supports 4-device parallel testing or 16-port
multi-band RF devices, which is the wideband wireless technology
that will become widespread starting in 2008. -- Guaranteed high
repeatability of test Thanks to Advantest's newly developed
high-speed Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) test algorithm, its new
test solution offers enhanced repeatability, resulting in even
greater test accuracy and reduced test times. -- Testing of all RF
SoC device signals with just one test system. By using the T2000
12GHz WSGA module in combination with Advantest's existing 800Mbps
digital, 500mA DPS and base-band waveform digitizer generator
(BBWDG) modules, all RF SoC device signal tests can be conducted on
a single test system, accurately and at low cost. Advantest's new
RF module is available in November 2007; pricing is available upon
request. Key Specifications VSG Frequency Range: 100MHz - 6GHz
Signal Output Level: +8dBm - -120dBm RF Ports: 16 Modulation
Bandwidth: 40MHz VSA Frequency Range: 100MHz - 12GHz Signal Input
Level: +17dBm RF Ports: 16 Average Noise Floor: -153dBm/Hz About
Advantest Advantest Corporation is the world's leading automatic
test equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, and also
produces electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems. A
global company, Advantest has long offered total ATE solutions and
serves the industry in every component of semiconductor test:
tester, handler, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and
software. Its logic, memory, mixed-signal and RF testers, and
device handlers are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor
production lines in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest
established its first subsidiary in 1982 in the U.S.A. and now has
43 subsidiaries worldwide. Among them Advantest America, Inc. is
based in Santa Clara, California and Advantest (Europe) GmbH is
based in Munich, Germany. More information is available at
http://www.advantest.com/. * The WiMAX (World Interoperability for
Microwave Access) standard is a new wireless communication system
for both fixed and mobile communications. It has a coverage range
of a radius of 50km (31 miles) and data transfer speeds of 70Mbps.
**MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) is the method of using multiple
antennas at both the transmitter and receiver for multiplexed,
reliable, high-speed communications. OPENSTAR(R) is a registered
trademark of the Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. in the USA,
Japan and other countries. DATASOURCE: Advantest Corporation
CONTACT: Amy Gold of Advantest America, Inc., +1-212-850-6670, ; or
Barbara Palmer of Palmer Communications, +1-914-725-8057, , for
Advantest Corporation Web site: http://www.advantest.com/
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