Verigy's Port Scale RF Solution Transforms

Verigy's innovative V93000 Port Scale RF solution is transforming the way the world communicates by making single chip cellular phones a reality.

Single chip cell phone RF-SOC/RF-SIP devices present significant technical challenges due to their unprecedented complexity and performance requirements. The move to single-chip eliminates an analog interface between the baseband processor and the transceiver. This simplifies designing the cell phone motherboard PCB.

These single chip cell phones are targeted for the lowest price handsets to capture the high growth emerging markets, such as China and India. This creates extreme pressure to reduce the manufacturing cost of these RF-SIP and RF-SOC devices, including the cost-of-test (COT).

Test throughput is the single most important factor in reducing COT, even more so than capital cost. To significantly improve throughput, the V93000 Port Scale RF solution is delivering quad-site parallel testing of these RF-SOC/ RF-SIP devices today. With quad-site testing, the Port Scale RF solution provides true parallel RF testing, along with true parallel testing of the digital, analog, power management and memory portions of these RF-SOC/RF-SIP devices. With the high multi-site efficiency of the Port Scale RF solution, testing four devices in parallel dramatically reduces the COT for these highest complexity single chip cell phone devices.

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