Teradyne to extend Unified Test Environment with new platform configurations

Citation

(1999), "Teradyne to extend Unified Test Environment with new platform configurations", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 11 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ssmt.1999.21911cad.003

Teradyne to extend Unified Test Environment with new platform configurations

Teradyne to extend Unified Test Environment with new platform configurations

Keywords Teradyne, Software, Testing

Teradyne is to extend its Unified Test Environment concept by introducing a new entry-level configuration of its Spectrum platform in late 1999 ­ together with significantly enhanced in-line Flash/iSP capability to be available on all Spectrum systems. A new release of the TestStudio™ Web-based operating environment before year-end is also planned.

In adding an entry-level manufacturing process tester (MPT) to its Spectrum™ test platform product line, the company will be setting a new, lower price point for users to obtain the benefits of Spectrum's standards-based, open architecture. Designed for in-line uses this new system will include fault coverage of basic process defects (shorts, opens, and passive components) with available digital in-circuit, boundary scan and Flash/iSP programming modules.

"We anticipate that the MPT version of the popular Spectrum platform will be especially attractive to high volume manufacturers of SMT boards where low cost, high throughput and in-line flash programming capability are the key test system requirements", commented Craig Pynn, marketing director for Teradyne's Assembly Test Division.

Despite its entry-level status, the new Spectrum will be based on the same industry standard hardware and software as the existing higher end platforms, and can be retrospectively upgraded at the user's site to a full function in-circuit and functional test system. The common platform approach means that the entry-level model will be in principle fully hardware and software compatible with more fully featured Spectrum systems. Pricing has not yet been set.