Brugge/Shanghai, December 5, 2006 – Q-Star Test nv., World’s leading
supplier of advanced high speed and high accurate IDD test solutions, and
Data Equipment International (DEI) Ltd., a test service provider for
semiconductor industry in China, announce a strategic partnership.
Q-Star Test offers IDDX monitor solutions, supporting true IDDQ, delta IDDQ,
advanced IDDQ, IDDT and analog IDD test strategies applicable to digital,
analog, and mixed signal circuits. Q-Star Test’s measurement hardware is ATE
independent and outperforms other available ATE related IDD test hardware by
at least a factor of 100 (with respect to measurement speed) and offers in
addition a 10x improvement in test data quality (with respect to measurement
resolution and repeatability). The hardware solutions are complemented with
application and test strategy related consulting and training services.
customers in China and covers a wide range of solutions to test digital
logic, analog circuts, mixed-signal devices and system-on-a-chip (SoC)
semiconductors. DEI’s engineering team has strong application experience on
ATE platforms such as A5XX, J971, J750, Catalyst, Flex, 93K etc. It also
has its own demo room equipped with J971 and J750 to facilitate not only the
engineering development but also CP/FT production test for small quantity of
products,
The partnership between Q-Star Test and DEI will allow customers to benefit
from the combination of products and services offered. “By combining DEI’s
software and test engineering solutions with Q-Star Test’s measurement
hardware, an easy route towards the implementation and application of supply
current based test strategies in production test environments is created”,
stated Hans Zhang, Operation Director of DEI. “Meanwhile, customers will
benefit from a more effective utilization of their EDA tools, a reduction of
test time and costs, and will experience an improvement of product quality”.
The partnership will also allow Q-Star Test and DEI to reinforce their
market position and to provide the semiconductor market with cost effective
and powerful soft- and hardware solutions to reduce test time and costs. The
partnership is further supported by an Agent agreement, Whereby DEI acts as
Q-Star Test exclusive agent for the Chinese (Mainland China, Hong-Kong &
Taiwan) region. “We chose to partner with DEI because of its innovation
drive, test engineering and automatic test equipment expertise,” said Hans
Manhaeve, president & CEO of Q-Star Test. “Through our partnership we can
their test flows and improve product quality..” Both companies support a
most cost effective production test solution, meeting increasing quality
demands.
About DEI
DEI was set up in 1978 in Hong Kong, and is one of the two earliest
companies to handle hi-tech business with China:
In the past few years, DEI has been concentrating on providing a total test
solution to semiconductor customers in China, such as semiconductor
manufacturers, fabless design houses, foundries, assembly and test houses
and military incoming inspection customers. Our total solution includes
training, engineering development, production support, program optimisations
etc. These services help customers to enjoy benefits such as high quality
test solutions, shorter time to market, reduced test cost and more efficient
integration of DFT and testing for their products.
DEI has offices in Shanghai and Beijing. DEI’s worldwide web address is :
www.deiltd.com
For more information, please contact:
Hans Zhang
Data Equipment International Ltd.
Tel: (86)21-5080 2200
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.deiltd.com
About Q-Star Test nv
Q-Star Test is the premier provider of IDD based test and measurement
solutions. The company offers standard and customized products and services.
Q-Star Test owns a number of different supply current measurement
technologies, covered by a set of strategic patents. These technologies
allow the creation of high speed, high accuracy supply current monitors,
under test and the ATE.
Q-Star’s worldwide web address is www.QStar.be
The company is located at L. Bauwensstraat 20, B-8200 Brugge, Belgium.
For more information please contact:
Hans Manhaeve
Q-Star Test nv
Phone: (+32) 50 319273
E-mail: [email protected]