Teradyne's FLEX Platform Wins Automotive Device Test Evaluation At Bosch

North Reading, MA - Teradyne, Inc. announced that Bosch will equip their automotive test facilities with the Teradyne FLEX Test Platform for future projects. The selection, spanning multiple years, was the result of a rigorous 10-month evaluation process that examined all Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) suppliers. The evaluation included a variety of functions within each company as well as tester performance. Bosch's selection of the FLEX Test Platform was based on Teradyne's demonstrated time-to-market, cost-of-test and quality advantages.

"Due to the longevity and importance of this decision, our team completed a comprehensive review of ATE suppliers," said Dr. Bernd Haeuser, senior vice president, Engineering and Manufacturing, Bosch. "We looked at each company as a whole and their automotive test solution and rated Teradyne as our best choice for our future automotive devices."

"We are extremely pleased that the global leader in automotive parts thoroughly examined such a large group of suppliers and selected Teradyne," said Eric Kaled, power and automotive marketing manager, Semiconductor Test Division, Teradyne. "The selection of FLEX by Bosch extends Teradyne's dominant leadership in the automotive device market. Teradyne's FLEX Platform and instrumentation is designed to meet the specialized test needs around quality that automotive device manufacturers like Bosch depend upon."

In 2007, the Bosch automotive division increased due to a growing demand for environmental protection and safety technologies. To meet this growing demand, Bosch is developing a new 200 millimeter silicon wafer facility in Reutlingen, Germany.

"We are delighted to serve Bosch out of our worldwide field organization," said Martin Stadler, manager Central European sales, Teradyne. "Over the years we have built a unique service organization dedicated to serving the automotive market in particular. Our strong local expertise will help support a fast ramp-up of the new platform at Bosch."

Teradyne's FLEX test platform, which has surpassed 1,600 test systems shipped, advances test technologies in an architecture designed for high-efficiency, multisite test. The FLEX platform's DC90XP option delivers both high voltage and high current capability in an instrument with unparalleled density that reduces cost of test for automotive power management, industrial/consumer motor controller and power switch semiconductors. For the high parallel test requirements of the precision analog market segment, the POOL2 option provides six different multichannel instruments integrated into a single instrument board. The POOL2 can make extremely low, accurate, and repeatable voltage, current and timing measurements not available with other instruments at the same level of density. To learn more about the FLEX Platform, visit http://www.teradyne.com/flex/.

SOURCE: Teradyne