Spreadtrum Shifts to Verigy Port Scale RF Solution for Testing Wireless Devices
CUPERTINO, CA, July 8, 2008
Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), has announced that Spreadtrum Communications, (NASDAQ: SPRD), one of China’s leading wireless baseband chipset providers, has selected the Verigy Port Scale RF Solution for production testing of its devices in Suzhou, China. After evaluating multiple competitive solutions, Spreadtrum chose Port Scale RF for its high-throughput and multisite test capability. Since adopting Port Scale RF, Spreadtrum has lowered its cost-of-test for a high-volume RF device over the incumbent solution by about 50%.
Spreadtrum develops a range of highly integrated baseband processors with robust multimedia functionality and power management for mobile wireless products. Port Scale RF is effective for testing the full range of RF devices, from low-integration chips such as RF transceivers to the latest high-integration single-chip devices for next-generation wireless standards. This gives Spreadtrum flexibility as it implements its RF device roadmap with performance that covers both next-generation technologies and varying levels of integration. This is achieved in conjunction with faster test times and higher parallelism, which support the dramatically lower cost-of-test.
“Verigy’s Port Scale RF solution delivers consistently stable test results, which translate into improved yield. It will help us continue to meet our customers’ growing demand for wireless devices,” said Brian Chen, senior director of operations, Spreadtrum. “Since 2001, we have been dedicated to growing the wireless communications market in China. We expect to grow our business in RF applications and believe that working with innovative technology leaders like Verigy will be an important factor in our ability to do so.”
About the Verigy V93000 and Port Scale RF
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Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing SOCs, systems-in-package (SIPs), and high-speed memory devices. The V93000, with nearly 1,800 RF-ready systems installed worldwide, meets the industry’s performance and cost challenges for at-speed engineering characterization and high-volume production. The test system provides low cost-of-test with multisite capabilities and data rates up to 12.8 Gb/s. It supports a full range of digital, mixed-signal, RF, and wireless applications such as cellular, WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB.
About Spreadtrum
Spreadtrum Communications is a fabless semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market. The company combines semiconductor design expertise with software development capabilities to deliver highly integrated baseband processors with multimedia functionality and power management. Spreadtrum offers terminal manufacturers a comprehensive portfolio of highly integrated baseband processor solutions as well as multimedia chips, RF chips, protocol software, and software application platforms. Spreadtrum has developed its solutions based on an open development platform, enabling its customers to develop customized wireless products that are feature-rich and meet their cost and time-to-market requirements. For more information, please check
www.spreadtrum.com.
About Verigy
Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services advanced semiconductor test systems and solutions for the flash memory, high-speed memory, and system-on-chip (SOC) markets. Verigy’s scalable platforms are used by companies worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Advanced analysis tools accelerate design debug and yield ramp processes. Information about Verigy can be found at
www.verigy.com.