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Cascade Microtech and Roos Instruments Announce 80 GHz Wafer Test Collaboration Partnership
Technology Leaders Explore Strategies to Address Emerging Automotive Radar and Wireless HDTV Markets
| Source: Cascade Microtech
BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwire - October 28, 2008) - Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ : CSCD ) and
Roos Instruments today announced an ongoing collaboration partnership to
provide complete and focused solutions for engineering and production test
applications addressing 60 GHz through 80 GHz RF millimeter-wave
components. Application approaches will include Cascade Microtech
engineering probes and production probe cards, paired with Roos
Instruments' ATE platforms and tester instrument modules. Both companies
will provide integration software and complete calibration capability to
ensure that customers can perform complete characterization and performance
tests enabling production of Known-Good-Die (KGD) for automotive radar and
wireless HDTV applications.
According to Strategy Analytics, over 2.3 million cars will be equipped
with collision avoidance radar systems by 2011, requiring over 30 million
radar sensors. In addition, ABI Research reports that one million wireless
HDTVs will be installed worldwide by 2012, with double digit growth rates.
"Automotive radar and wireless multimedia applications are now moving from
their embryonic stage into higher volume growth applications," says Geoff
Wild, CEO, Cascade Microtech, Inc. "The need to precisely characterize
millimeter-RF components and then produce a cost effective KGD production
wafer test capability at 80 GHz requires a unique partnership between
Cascade Microtech and Roos Instruments -- two companies who are the leaders
in very high frequency testing."
"Roos Instruments has pioneered the development of RF ATE operating at 80
GHz RF millimeter-wave frequencies. In order to fully characterize in
engineering and validate device functionality during production test, the
transmission paths to the device-under-test have become critical," says
Mark Roos, CEO, Roos Instruments. "Cascade Microtech is the only partner
who has the experience and tools to provide product solutions that operate
in both engineering labs and production environments."
Cascade Microtech and Roos Instruments will host a Millimeter-wave IC Test
Solution Seminar Series beginning December, 2008. The first workshop in the
series, entitled "77 GHz RFIC Test and the Latest RFIC Test Techniques,"
will be held in Chiba-City, Japan. This seminar will introduce
millimeter-wave IC test solutions now being used for 60 GHz wireless HDTV
and 77 GHz automotive radar, as well as the latest high-frequency IC test
and contact for WiFi, WiMAX and mobile devices. For information on this or
future seminars, please visit www.cascademicrotech.com or email
info@cascademicrotech.com.
About Roos Instruments
Founded in 1989, Roos Instruments, www.roos.com, based in Santa Clara, CA
with offices in Salem, NH, Seoul, ROK and Chiba, Japan, develops,
manufactures and supports characterization and production test solutions
for the semiconductor industry. RI systems provide RF manufacturers the
lowest "cost of test" with unmatched throughput, and up-time. RI's ability
to improve time to market with a unique, fast, reusable test development
method provides customers with a critical benefit. RI equipment tests
devices, modules and SiPs used in all forms of wireless communications. If
you need to test Fiber Optic, Radio, or Microwave Integrated Circuits at
production volumes and you want steady, reliable performance from a system
with the highest MTBF in the industry, choose Roos Instruments to provide
the fastest available ATE solution.
About Cascade Microtech, Inc.
Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ : CSCD ) is a worldwide leader in the precise
electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other
small structures. For technology businesses and scientific institutions
that need to evaluate small structures, Cascade Microtech delivers access
to, and extraction of, electrical data from wafers, integrated circuits
(ICs), IC packages, circuit boards and modules, MEMS, biological
structures, electro-optic devices and more. Cascade Microtech's
leading-edge semiconductor production test consumables include unique probe
cards and test sockets that reduce manufacturing costs of high-speed and
high-density semiconductor chips. For more information visit
www.cascademicrotech.com.