Pintail and Salland Engineering Form Strategic Alliance
DALLAS, TX and ZWOLLE, NETHERLANDS, March 26, 2008
Pintail Technologies and Salland Engineering have formed a
strategic alliance that will enable them to extend their
leadership in the semiconductor test software market. The
two companies are sharing technology roadmaps and product
integration plans as well as conducting joint marketing on a
worldwide basis.
"Pintail is clearly the world leader in providing Adaptive Test solutions,"
stated Paul van Ulsen, president of Salland Engineering. "Adaptive Test
is a broad set of new techniques that allow users to improve
test yield, test cost, or test quality by dynamically
adjusting the actions of the ATE during production based
upon statistical process control (SPC) algorithms. It is
clear from the customers we have met with and the more that
400 copies of
SwifTest™
currently in production that Pintail is several years ahead
of others in this rapidly growing new field."
"Salland's reputation for delivering outstanding solutions to complex test
challenges is recognized worldwide," stated Taylor Scanlon, president and CEO of Pintail.
"SE-PROBE™ is the most comprehensive real-time wafer
mapping and dynamic test cell controller on the market
today. With more than 1,500 systems in production, Salland
is the world's leader in this segment. Salland's solutions
for Adaptive Test are complementary to Pintail's and will
further expand our solutions for test optimization and
dynamic parts average testing (DPAT.) "
The parties plan to
more closely integrate
SEDana™ as the off-line analysis tool used to
predict the performance of SwifTest-MX when used for test
time reduction and SwifTest-AQ for adaptive quality
improvement. In addition to these Adaptive Test solutions,
test floor managers will now be able to integrate the
real-time OEE capabilities of Pintail's TestScape® System
with the functionality of Salland's real-time test cell
controller SEPROBE.
"TestScape
provides both test floor managers and upstream users of test
subcons a real-time dashboard to monitor multiple test
floors and heterogeneous brands of ATEs," stated Keith
Arnold, Pintail's chief technology officer. "By adding
Salland's SEPROBE as the test cell controller, test floors
will be able to improve the data integrity of the enormous
volumes of test results being monitored. SEPROBE also
provides sophisticated capabilities to reduce retest costs
and improve contact life cycle management and other on-line
test optimization."
The two parties' combined customer base includes many of the leading
semiconductor manufacturers and test subcons in the world
including Advantest, Analog Devices, Atmel, ASE, Avago
Technologies, Bosch, CSR, Fairchild, Freescale, Hitachi,
Infineon, IBM, Intel, KYEC, National Semiconductors, Maxim,
Micrel, Micronas, Microchip, NXP, On-Semiconductor, Power
Integrations, Qualcomm, Qimonda, Raytheon, Renesas, Sony,
ST-Microelectronics, Toshiba, Teradyne, Texas Instruments,
UTAC-Taiwan, Verigy, and Volterra.
About Pintail Technologies
Pintail Technologies is a semiconductor
test improvement and yield learning company that provides
adaptive test software to reduce the cost of test and
increase production output and quality through existing test
equipment and programs. Pintail has created test improvement
solutions to combine real-time, on-line adaptive test with
web-based database applications. Fabless and integrated
device manufacturers worldwide, in collaboration with
leading assembly and test suppliers, use Pintail tools.
Pintail has sales offices in Dallas, Austin, TX; San Jose,
CA; Seoul; Singapore; and Taiwan. See
www.pintail.com.
About Salland Engineering
Established in 1992 and currently
employing more than 85 people, Salland Engineering is a
leader in test application support, data analysis, ATE
products, and efficiency and yield improvement solutions.
All Salland's product are designed for lower cost of test
and easy usage. Working closely with customers and ATE
manufacturers, Salland Engineering has delivered more than
700 turnkey test applications and 4,000-plus products and
solutions. Salland has offices in Zwolle (NL), Singapore,
Pleasanton (CA), and local support in Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
and the Philippines. Visit
www.salland.com.