Sep 3 2014
Aehr Test Systems, a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, today announced it has received a follow-on order for its Advanced Burn-in and Test System (ABTS) from a leading manufacturer of advanced logic integrated circuits (ICs) for automotive, embedded processing, digital signal processing and analog applications.
The order includes down payments to lock in a delivery slot and volume pricing discount. This system shipped in the first quarter of Aehr Test's fiscal 2015.
"We are pleased to receive and fulfill this order for an additional system from this customer, which is operating at full capacity for high volume production and needed to expand burn-in capacity quickly," said Carl Buck, vice president of marketing at Aehr Test Systems. "This customer makes full use of the ABTS system's high-dissipation 36 KW thermal chamber and Individual Temperature Control capabilities. Industry-leading processing nodes used by this customer, especially to implement new automotive safety and automated control capabilities, typically exhibit an increasing leakage current, resulting in a wide variation of power in the devices being burned-in. This variation results in the need for individual temperature control of the devices so that they all achieve the target burn-in stress without over-stressing the higher power devices. The higher-power devices and individual temperature control result in the need for a higher-power oven so that production volumes of devices can be cost-effectively burned-in in a single chamber.
The ABTS family of products is based on a new hardware and software platform that is designed to address not only today's devices, but also future devices for many years to come. It can test and burn-in both logic and memory devices, including resources for high pin-count devices and configurations for high-power and low-power applications. The ABTS system can be configured with up to 72 burn-in boards with up to 320 I/O channels each and 32M of test vector memory per channel. The ABTS offers the option of high voltage Device Power Supplies configurable with programmable voltage ranges to 60 or 230 volts, which are needed for certain automotive and power-line applications. The ABTS system is optimized for use with the Sensata iSocket* and VTR Thermal Management Technologies, which provide a scalable cost-effective solution using individual device temperature control for ICs up to 75 watts or more. Individual temperature control enables higher-power devices with a broad range of power dissipation to be burned-in simultaneously in a single burn-in chamber while maintaining a precise device temperature. The ABTS system also uses N+1 redundancy technology and hot-swap capability for many key components in the system to maximize system uptime.
* iSocket is a trademark of Sensata Technologies, Inc.
Source: http://www.aehr.com/