September 2019 Issue
TOP STORIES
Flexible Automation Infrastructure Supports Continuous Test-program Integration and Delivery
Test engineers today are facing many challenges working within a collaborative test-program-development environment. Fortunately, a concept called continuous integration, or CI, can be implemented within the test-program development process to help meet these challenges.
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Overlapping Speech Transcription Could Help Contend with ATE Complexity
Increasingly complex chipsets are driving corresponding increases in semiconductor test system hardware and software. Artificial intelligence offers innovative, ingenious opportunities to mitigate the challenges that test engineers and test-system operators face and to improve security and traceability. Advantest, which fields thousands of test systems worldwide that test billions of devices per year, is studying several ways in which AI can help.
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GO POLL
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS
Q&A Interview with Dieter Ohnesorge – 5G mmWave Challenges and Solutions
mmWave is the key topic when it comes to frequency ranges that allow to allocate more bandwidth. millimeter-wave (mmWave) is the band of spectrum between 24 GHz and 100 GHz. As it enables allocation of more bandwidth for high-speed wireless communications, mmWave is increasingly viewed as one key to making 5G connectivity a reality. In this issue, Dieter Ohnesorge, product manager, RF solutions for Advantest, discusses the market opportunity and test challenges associated with 5G mmWave, as well as Advantest’s solution for addressing them.
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FEATURED TECHNOLOGIES
New End-to-End Test Solutions for 5G, Automotive and IoT
Advantest’s new MPT3000ARC is the industry’s first test platform to combine thermal-control capability with high throughput, enabling extreme thermal testing of solid-state drives (SSDs). Adding this new system to the MPT3000 product family, which is already in wide use by SSD manufacturers, Advantest is supporting SSD testing from design to manufacturing, providing the fastest, lowest risk path to market for next-generation devices, including PCIe Gen 4.
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FEATURED EVENT
Advantest Showcases 5G Readiness at SEMICON West 2019
Advantest sponsored, exhibited, and presented at SEMICON West from July 9-11, 2019 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Advantest’s booth was centrally located in the South Hall alongside other large semiconductor companies and featured the new theme, “5G: Made Real by Our Customers, Made Possible by Advantest.”
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FEATURED STORY
I Think, Therefore I Am… Machine?
The ability to think has been a central, defining aspect of humanity since our beginning. Today, technologists are using artificial intelligence to instill that capability into machines. Through statistical models and algorithms, machine learning enables computers to perform specific tasks without receiving explicit instructions from a human.
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ADVANTEST NEWS
- Advantest Honored with Bosch Global Supplier Award
- Advantest to Feature Latest End-to-End Test Solutions for 5G, Automotive and IoT at Flash Memory Summit on August 6-8
- Advantest Launches New Chamber-Based Solid-State Drive Validation Tester for Automotive Thermal Standards
- Advantest’s 2019 VOICE Developer Conference Breaks Records in Both Locations
- Advantest to Feature Latest IC Test Solutions Enabling Implementation of 5G Technology at SEMICON West on July 9-11
- Advantest and MultiLane Introduce Plugable High-Speed Test Instruments for the V93000 Platform
- Advantest Recognized at 2018 Environmental Human Resources Development Corporate Awards
- Advantest Joins UN Global Compact
- Advantest Again Earns Distinction as a VLSI 5 Star Company and its 31st Consecutive Appearance on the VLSIresearch 10 BEST List in Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey
- Advantest Extends V93000 Tester with SmartShell Software for Tight Integration of Hardware with Mentor’s Silicon Insight
UPCOMING EVENTS
RADECS
Montpellier, France, September 16-20, 2019
https://www.radecs2019.org/
GSA US Executive Forum
Menlo Park, CA, September 17, 2019
https://www.gsaglobal.org/event/2019-gsa-us-executive-forum/
SEMICON Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan, September 18-20, 2019
http://www.semicontaiwan.org/en/
43rd Micro & Nano Conf.
Rhodes, Greece, September 23-26, 2019
http://mne2019.org/
IFSCC (Int’l Federation Of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists)
Milan, Italy, September 30-October 2, 2019
https://www.ifscc2019.com/
SW Test Asia
Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 17-18, 2019
https://www.swtestasia.org/
ITC 2019
Washington, DC, November 11-15, 2019
http://www.itctestweek.org/
Semicon Europa
Munich, Germany, November 12-15, 2019
http://www.semiconeuropa.org/
GSA Asia Pacific Exec Forum
Taipei City, Taiwan, November 13, 2019
https://www.gsaglobal.org/event/asia-pacific-executive-forum/
GSA Awards Dinner
Santa Clara, CA, December 5, 2019
https://www.gsaglobal.org/event/gsa-awards-dinner/
Semicon Japan
Tokyo, Japan, December 11-13, 2019
http://www.semiconjapan.org/en/
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE…
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