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Now, characterization, quality assurance and final test can be performed quickly and cost-effectively in a small lot production environment, minimizing the time and investment required to get products to market.

The V5000ep enables customers to perform design validation, quality assurance and characterization on new devices in a small lot production environment. The span of capabilities includes test program development, temperature testing and automation.

The Matrix's high parallelism and flexibility to test multiple memory types (NOR, NAND, DRAM, SRAM, and MCP) can now apply to a small lot production environment and deliver tangible benefits, such as the efficiency of using wafer sort probers and final test handlers to test and characterize small lots of devices. Consequently, the overall cost to validate and test new parts is reduced by reducing hardware load board cost and time, thereby helping to drive down cost-of-test.

Setting up a test environment is now faster, which improves the manufacturer's time-to-market. Instead of requiring a week of operator time for cold testing of, for example, 1000 sample units, the same now can be achieved in seven hours.

Because the V5000ep's software and hardware architecture is fully compatible with the V5000e engineering workstation and all V5000 Series systems, engineering or development work can be seamlessly transferred to high-volume manufacturing on the V5400 and V5500 production test systems.