SiTest Solutions Standardizes on Verigy V5000e for Flash Memory Test

Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that SiTest Solutions Ltd., a leading service provider for test engineering solutions and services, selected Verigy’s V5000 family as its flash memory test platform. The V5000e will permit SiTest Solutions to add NAND flash and specialty memory testing to its expanding list of capabilities.

SiTest Solutions chose the V5000e because it offers a complete, integrated solution to meet the needs of its customers from engineering development through release to high-volume production test for a broad range of memory device types. SiTest Solutions has already used the V5000e to develop a test application for a 16Gb/32Gb solid state drive (SSD) device featuring integrated NAND flash memory and memory controller in one package. With the V5000e, SiTest Solutions significantly reduced its development and device characterization time. This helped to speed the time-to-volume production for the SSD device.

"SiTest Solutions provides a full range of test services, from test program development and prototype device characterization, to recommending an ATE test platform and consulting on volume test services, as well as full-service requests such as transferring and installing test applications for high-volume production testing,” said John Ritchie, Managing Director, SiTest Solutions. "The V5000e provides the ideal combination of high performance, maximum flexibility and manageable cost-of-test, so that we can make flash memory testing services available to our customers.”

"We are pleased to work with an innovative test services consultancy like SiTest Solutions as they expand their offering to include memory test,” said Pascal Ronde, vice president of sales, service and support, Verigy. "The large V5000 Series installed base will allow SiTest Solutions and their customers to maximize the benefits of their ATE investment for expanded engineering services.”

About the Verigy V5000

The V5000 Series of memory test systems offers a complete solution for all memory test needs, from engineering development to high-volume production. With a scalable platform architecture and optimized tester resources to efficiently test all memory types, the V5000 Series solves the widest variety of memory test issues. The Programmable Interface Matrix technology enables significantly lower cost of final test through extremely high pin count (16,384 pins), the highest available parallelism (x320 NAND, x256 NOR and MCPs) and greatest tester utilization. The V5000e’s platform architecture allows customers complete test transportability and stability, for new levels of efficiency in migrating tests from design to sort to final test.

About SiTest Solutions Ltd.

SiTest Solutions Ltd. (www.SiTestSolutions.com) is a leading independent provider of Test Solutions Services and Strategies. The company offers strategies and products to optimize test throughput and minimize cost-of-test. Operating as an extension of its customers' Test & Product Engineering teams, SiTest Solutions provides a direct technical conduit for high-volume production testing support into China and other parts of Asia. SiTest Solutions is certified under the ISO9001:2000 quality management system.

About Verigy

Verigy designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services advanced semiconductor test systems and solutions for the flash memory, high-speed memory and system-on-chip (SoC) markets. Verigy’s scalable platforms are used by leading companies worldwide in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Advanced analysis tools accelerate design debug and yield ramp processes for Verigy’s customers. Information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.