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Rood Technology elects Q-Star Test’s QD-1010L

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  1. Ronson 4 mei 2006 15:44
    Press announcement,
    For immediate release

    Rood Technology elects Q-Star Test’s QD-1010Lite IDDQ measurement solution.

    Leading Test service supplier Using Q-Star Test IDDQ Measurement Products to enhance its test performance for Automotive IC products

    Brugge/Belgium – Nördlingen/Germany, May 2, 2006 – Q-Star Test, the leading supplier of advanced high speed and highly accurate IDD test and measurement solutions today announced that Rood Technology, Nördlingen has selected its QD-1010Lite IDDQ monitor product for running IDDQ tests and to enhance its test performance on automotive products as part of the production test flow.

    Hans Manhaeve, President and CEO of Q-Star Test, noted: "We are honored that our QD-1010Lite product, part of our QD-10xx family of products, has been selected by Rood Technology, a leading European value added Service provider, specialized in providing Test, Qualification, Failure Analysis and End of Line services to IC manufactures and OEMs in the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Building on a previously successful evaluation process we are happy to see that our QD-1010Lite IDDQ product is now being extensively used on the Rood Technology production test floor for the test of automotive products, enabling to easily meet the stringent automotive test requirements. Our relationship with Rood Technology and its customer evolved significantly throughout the course of their evaluation process, and we look forward to working together to further develop innovative new test solutions for the automotive market."

    Rood Technology is employing Q-Star Test’s QD-1010Lite to support the test of its automotive products. Prior to production application, the company conducted an intensive evaluation. “Making use of Q-Star Test’s QD-1010Lite product allows us to reduce test costs whilst meeting our stringent quality demands when implementing our advanced IDDQ screening methodologies that include running hundred’s of IDDQ strobe points, as well as offering us improved IDDQ data quality” stated Dieter Schreiber, Marketing & Sales Manager.

    Rood Technology is now fully using the Q-Star Test QD-1010Lite as part of its production test floor and a further roll-out is planned.

    Q-Star Test and Rood Technology’s Focus on Reducing Cost of Test
    SoC and SiP designs are rapidly becoming preferred solutions as semiconductor manufacturers seek to optimize shrinking device geometries by squeezing greater amounts of device content and functionality onto a single chip or into a single package. The resulting, highly integrated devices have created a new set of challenges for testing such parts within economic constraints. For automotive parts there are the additional and increasing quality demands. Q-Star Test is committed to develop (supply) current based test and measurement solutions and related methodologies to address these issues. "Customers have reported significant cost savings using our solutions whilst improving their product quality" added Hans Manhaeve. "We believe this kind of performance is paramount to ensuring chipmakers' ability to meet their aggressive product roadmap requirements."

    As the test cost are a substantial and growing part of the IC manufacturing costs, Rood Technology is active in rationalizing the development process by developing a innovative software tool (Re-use of test-blocks) to reduce software development time with the result to reduce time to market.
    “By using the latest state of the art IDDQ test and measuring tool, Rood is supporting its customers to reach shorter test times as well as yield improvement and herewith contributes to reach high product quality high, test performance at competitive costs”, noted Dieter Schreiber.

    About the QD-1010Lite.
    The QD-1010Lite is a high speed high resolution IDDQ monitor/measurement module belonging to Q-Star Test’s QD-10xx Product family of advanced IDDQ measurement solutions. The QD-1010Lite is a configurable quiescent supply current (IDDQ) monitor, with basic measurement functionality and requires a minimum number of dedicated test channels.
    The QD-1010Lite module supports both standard well as advanced IDDQ measurement strategies such as various Delta-IDDQ approaches, Current Ratios and Relative IDDQ schemes. The module provides digital measurement values as well as a simple pass/fail output signal and relies on the ATE for further data processing.
    The QD-1010Lite can be configured for measurement ranges up to 30mA, can handle switching currents up to 30A, has a high capacitive loading driving capability, offers a measurement repeatability better than 0.01% of the measurement range and has a typical IDDQ measurement time of 200μs.

    About Q-Star Test nv.
    Q-Star Test is the leading provider of advanced IDD measurement solutions, supporting true IDDQ, delta IDDQ and other advanced IDDQ test strategies, Transient current test (IDDT) and analog IDD test strategies applicable to digital, analog, and mixed signal circuits. Beyond its standard hardware and consulting & training services, the company offers also customized products and services. Q-Star Test owns a number of different supply current measurement technologies, covered by a set of strategic patents. These technologies allow the creation of high speed, high accuracy supply current monitors, with the unique characteristic to be virtually transparent to the device under test and the ATE.

    About Rood Technology
    Rood Technology has accumulated over 35 years of experience in providing engineering-intensive services with added value in the semiconductor industry. These services cover Software and Hardware Development for Test Solutions, Wafer Probing, Final Test, Burn-In, Marking, Scanning, Straightening, Tape & Reel, Programming as well as Qualification and Failure Analysis to IC Manufacturers & End Users.

    For more info about Rood Technology please contact
    Dieter Schreiber - Marketing & Sales Manager
    Rood Technology Deutschland GmbH + Co
    Oettinger Strasse 6 - D-86720 Noerdlingen - Germany
    Phone: +49 (0) 9081 - 804 - 141
    E-mail: Dieter.Schreiber@rood.de
    Internet: www.roodtechnology.com

    For more information about QStar please contact:
    Hans Manhaeve - CEO
    Q-Star Test nv
    Lieven Bauwensstraat 20, B-8200 Brugge, Belgium
    Phone: (+32) 50 315744
    E-mail: hans.manhaeve@qstar.be
    Internet: www.qstar.be
  2. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 15:57
    Het lijkt alsof dit bericht voor de stijging van de laatste dagen zorgt. (bericht is van eergister)

    Wat een beetje publiciteit al teweeg brengt!
  3. Ronson 4 mei 2006 16:01
    "As the test cost are a substantial and growing part of the IC manufacturing costs, Rood Technology is active in rationalizing the development process by developing a innovative software tool (Re-use of test-blocks) to reduce software development time with the result to reduce time to market.
    “By using the latest state of the art IDDQ test and measuring tool, Rood is supporting its customers to reach shorter test times as well as yield improvement and herewith contributes to reach high product quality high, test performance at competitive costs”, noted Dieter Schreiber."

    ROT en Automotive dus!
    Mooi zo ;~D
  4. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 16:18
    [quote=Ronson]
    "As the test cost are a substantial and growing part of the IC manufacturing costs, Rood Technology is active in rationalizing the development process by developing a innovative software tool (Re-use of test-blocks) to reduce software development time with the result to reduce time to market.
    “By using the latest state of the art IDDQ test and measuring tool, Rood is supporting its customers to reach shorter test times as well as yield improvement and herewith contributes to reach high product quality high, test performance at competitive costs”, noted Dieter Schreiber."

    ROT en Automotive dus!
    Mooi zo ;~D
    [/quote

    Als dit slaagt wordt het een groot succes. Alleen jammer dat dit nooit bekend gemaakt wordt. Zal anders een koersexplsie geven.
  5. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 16:24
    De echte beleggers (grote jongens) krijgen dit soort info wel hoor. Nou, dat ziet er goed uit.... ik snap sommige negatieve postings gewoon niet als ik dit lees. Maar goed, ik zal er wel niets van snappen...
  6. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 16:41
    Dit is echt een super bericht. Heb het nog eens goed doorgelezen. De testkosten worden verlaagd voor Automative klanten en die zijn dus heel content met dit test-systeem. Is goed voor de business van Rood.

    Het ROT-project gaat echt aanslaan met die enorme testkosten voor bepaalde fabrikanten en Rood gaat daar heel wel bij varen als uitbater.
  7. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 17:06
    Ja, ik ben RoodChina1 op dat forum. Ik moet cijfers melden en argumenten (hoeveel heb ik er wel niet gegeven om deze koers rechtvaardig te noemen), maar wat willen ze nou eigenlijk horen.

    - Dat de personeelskosten flink waren gestegen door variabel gedeelte als beloning voor overwerk (meer opbrengsten dus meer werk - lijkt me logisch).

    - Dat de oper. winst van 56k naar 238k is verbeterd. Dat heb ik geloof ik aangegeven. Dat deze in 2005 hoger was geweest als er geen uitgaven waren geweest, zoals die op blz. 28 worden vermeld. Dat waren namelijk initiele kosten, echter wel noodzakelijke.

    - Zonder deze kosten hadden we op 8% van de omzet gezeten. Door de investeringen zullen de opbrengsten in de toekomst stevig aantrekken en dat zal ten goede komen van oper. winst (EBIT).

    - Tuurlijk is het niet zeker dat die opbrengsten er komen, maar beleggen is in de toekomst kijken en ik weet toch ongeveer wel wat er speelt en waar ik op kan.

    Hun vermijden het belastingresultaat, ik niet. Bij een overname/fusie moet je daar namelijk ook rekening mee houden.

    Stel je voor: je hebt 30 mln comp. verliezen wat ongeveer garant staat voor ongeveer 9 mln toekomstig E.V en je zou zoiets negeren in de huidige koers. ABSURD gewoon.

    De intrinsieke waarde van Rood is gewoon 4 garantievermogen + 9 miljoen ongeveer, zoals ik hierboven beschreef. Deel je dat door totaal uitstaande aandelen is dat 46 cent.

    Dat is gewoon een feit.

    Door aan te nemen dat de omzet komende jaren hard zal stijgen, weet je dus ook dat de oper. winst hoger komt te liggen. Dit wordt vermindert met interestkosten en dat komt nog eens extra bij het E.V.

    Dit zijn gewoon feiten. Als het ROT-project snel van de grond komt dan volgen er extra opbrengsten en dat kan de omzet op jaarbasis een enorme boost geven.

    Het is praten in de toekomst, maar wij als forum weten waarschijnlijk meer als andere forums van bedrijven door de directe contacten. Wij hebben dus recht van spreken.
  8. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 17:26
    De grootste Automative leverancier qua chips, Freescale (ook klant Rood), is ook de samenwerking aangegaan met Q-Star Test. Zie hieronder voor informatie:

    Freescale selects Q-Star Test’s QD-1020 advanced IDDQ measurement solution.

    Leading Chipmaker Using Q-Star Test IDDQ Measurement Products to Test its Automotive IC products

    Brugge/Belgium, September 20, 2005 – Q-Star Test, the leading supplier of advanced high speed and highly accurate IDD test and measurement solutions today announced that Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B), and more particular its Tempe site, has selected its QD-1020 advanced multi-site IDDQ monitor product for running IDDQ tests on its automotive products as part of its production test flow.

    Voor het hele artikel:

    www.qstar.be/assets/applets/PressRele...
  9. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 18:16
    Ronson aanbevolen!

    Goed gevonden en eerder als Danicor en dat is op zich al een prestatie.
    Verder is dit een prima voorbode van zeer goed nieuws mbt ROT. Jammer alleen dat Rood dit soort zaken niet zelf naar buiten brengt.

    Piet1791
  10. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 18:27
    quote:

    piet1791 schreef:

    Ronson aanbevolen!

    Goed gevonden en eerder als Danicor en dat is op zich al een prestatie.
    Verder is dit een prima voorbode van zeer goed nieuws mbt ROT. Jammer alleen dat Rood dit soort zaken niet zelf naar buiten brengt.

    Piet1791

    Ik heb al eens eerder gezegd dat dit soort communicatie niet in het bloed zit van deze techneuten clubs. Laten we ze gewoon helpen herinneren. Wat namelijk nog niet is kan nog wel komen ;-))
    Perry, misschien kan jij Philip daarover contacten en ze een mooi en bondig PB'tje laten opstellen?
  11. [verwijderd] 4 mei 2006 21:32
    Robert, ik snap wel dat dit niet als publicatie naar buiten komt. Dit nieuwsfeit heeft gewoon te maken met de dagelijkse gang van zaken. Rood schaft een nieuw test-systeem aan omdat het veel synergie oplevert voor Automative klanten. Zodoende blijft de uitstekende relatie met die klanten gewaarborgd. Hun blijven dus veel testwerk uitbesteden en dat is goed voor de business van Rood.

    Deze ontwikkeling heeft alleen maar voordelen, maar in principe snap ik het wel dat dit niet gemeld word aan Dow Jones. Anders kunnen ze namelijk elke aanschaf van nieuwe apparatuur wel gaan melden. Q-Star Test heeft het nu uitgebracht en dankzij de CFO zijn we nu toch op de hoogte.

    De aanvullende orders China en ROT-project zijn zaken die wel tot publicaties moeten leiden. Daar moeten we ons op concentreren. Dat zijn essentiele zaken die de dagelijkse gang van zaken beinvloeden of daarbuiten gaan.
  12. forum rang 4 Opstapelen 5 mei 2006 08:48
    Puntje erbij Ron!
    Zeer mooi bericht, opmerkelijk is wel dat de leverancier aangeeft dat het een mooie aanvulling is op ROT.
    Misschien is dit een eis geweest van een klant om dan pas over te gaan op een ROT-deal.
    Al met al gaat het de goede kant op,
    Erik
  13. Ronson 7 mei 2006 03:11
    "Our relationship with Rood Technology and its customer evolved significantly throughout the course of their evaluation process, and we look forward to working together to further develop innovative new test solutions for the automotive market."

    ..... we look forward to working together .....
  14. [verwijderd] 7 mei 2006 16:33
    quote:

    Ronson schreef:

    Perry (of anderen, Hans/Erik bijv.), ken jij DSP Valley?

    www.dspvalley.com/
    Ik kon het niet Ron, zal me der eens wat nader in verdiepen. Zeer interessante members... Digital Signal Processing lijkt me een heel relevant onderwerp voor de business van Rood.
  15. forum rang 4 Opstapelen 7 mei 2006 20:24
    Ik kende de groep ook niet. Het geeft wel goed weer, dat bedrijven op alle mogelijke manieren willen samenwerken om de kosten te drukken.
    En aan de memberslist te zien lijkt het mij een uitstekend idee voor Rood om zich daar maar eens goed warm in te nestelen.
    Er kan dan mooi op een platform met anderen research worden gedaan naar verdere ontwikkelingen in de markt.
    Misschien wel partners om ROT te optimaliseren. Maar waarschijnlijk hebben ze daar al wel iemand voor.(hoop ik)
    Erik
    p.s. deze voeg ik toe aan favoritien. Komen misschien nog wel meer leuke feiten op tafel.
  16. Ronson 16 mei 2006 01:55
    Leading by design: Q&A with Dr. Raghuram Tupuri, AMD

    Chris Hall, DigiTimes.com, Taipei [Monday 12 December 2005]

    AMD’s drive to 64-bit processors surprised everyone with its speed, even as detractors commented that there would be little or no performance gain on the desktop without a 64-bit OS and 64-bit applications. Whatever the doubts within the industry, Intel lost little time in offering its own version of AMD64, in the form of the EM64T extensions. Traditionally perceived as the under-dog in the cutthroat world of microprocessors, AMD managed to take the design initiative at exactly that moment Intel was fixated on power consumption and the move to dual cores. In the terms of Intel’s own corporate jargon, it was AMD that had managed to create an inflection point, a key moment of change in the dominant technology.

    DigiTimes.com recently had an opportunity to discuss AMD’s approach to microprocessor design with Dr. Raghuram Tupuri, general manager, Microprocessor Solutions Sector – Design Engineering, AMD.

    This is the first part of a two-part interview. Part II follows on 13 December.

    Q: The consensus within the industry is that AMD64 has clearly been a tremendous achievement for AMD and to a large extent has re-defined the competitive landscape in microprocessors. What was the design approach – if you like, the design philosophy – that guided development of AMD64? It’s often been remarked, for example, that Dirk Meyer, who came to AMD from design work on the Alpha processor, had a considerable influence on AMD64.

    A: I worked very closely with Dirk Meyer on the K7/Athlon processor. We both worked on micro-architectural aspects of the K7. He’s a very inspiring and hands-on type of leader, and that’s the management style we have developed in all our microprocessor groups at AMD – very hands-on, with good technical understanding. Dirk always says that he thinks of himself as an engineer at heart, and his background and experience definitely helped him develop his leadership style, walking around, talking with the engineers. He doesn’t miss an opportunity to meet the engineering team and learn about their progress and challenges first hand. That style suits AMD’s design strategy, which is to keep the design teams as small and as experienced as possible, to maximize communication. The key is to enable the team members with all the information they need, leaving them challenged and empowered to do more than their job.

    The core design philosophy is to deliver higher performance to the end user. As micro-architectural improvements are achieved, they are evaluated with respect to the end-user experience and future software needs. My own view is that we have not yet reached the limits of what can be achieved by micro-architectural changes and enhancements. As we progress in the technology, and more transistors continue to become available, we will continue to see the adoption of advanced micro-architectural techniques. We will continue to see a lot more pre-fetch, in hardware, and a lot more speculative execution, but at the same time we will be factoring in power consumption.

    Delivering performance was always the focus for us. At AMD we have a history of emphasizing performance rather than processor frequency, but now, especially for our corporate users, the question becomes one of power efficiency, performance per dollar per watt. The design challenge now becomes, “How much performance can I squeeze out of the wattage?”

    At AMD, a microprocessor designer has to work within a power budget, and each application tends to have a different power profile. For example, if you are converting a DVD video, then you are using one section of the processor core quite heavily, but if you are simply typing an email, it becomes more a question of I/O resources. That’s the type of question being asked in processor design. What application or set of applications are we targeting, and what is the power profile?

    Users buy new processors because they want to have more performance, and higher performance is definitely on the horizon, but it has to be delivered within certain power constraints. Previously we operated within a transistor budget. We had a certain number of transistors available, and within that budget we had to improve performance. The die size was always limited, both by economic factors and by the limitations of the technology of the time. We now have more transistors, but certain strings are attached. We now have to improve performance within a power budget.

    Q: Commentators have noted that what’s fascinating about the AMD64 architecture is how it maintains full compatibility with the much-maligned x86 architecture while also delivering a RISC operational and programming environment. How accurate is this assessment?

    A: There always was tendency at AMD to assume that we could put x86 on top of RISC. I remember when we were working on the 29K RISC processor, we always thought that, with some additional hardware, we could put x86 on top of the RISC core and execute CISC instructions. Once we knew we could implement that kind of design, it was incorporated in several products, including the K7, K6, and K5 and, of course, the Opteron. AMD had had RISC technology for a long time. Its 29K microprocessors were popular in embedded applications. Later, when these 29K engineers moved to x84 processor design, the result was CISC designers who have RISC at heart!

    Q: How much more mileage is left in x86? Are there any realistic alternatives, given the less than compelling performance of Intel's IA-64 architecture and Itanium processors?

    A: I would be surprised if, a few years down, anyone even remembers the Itanium processor. Intel now offers two 64-bit solutions, IA-64 and AMD64. I think that tells you all you need to know about the success of x84 and AMD64.

    I think there is still quite a bit of mileage left in x86, but the actual mileage will be determined by the software base. If I’m a software vendor, what I want to focus on is developing new software and selling it to more end users. If the software needs to be ported to different processor platforms, then it is time or money deducted from the development of new algorithms or the improvement of existing programs. Given the ubiquity of x86, you only need to develop a set of binaries once, and they can then be applied in any number of instances. The processors now known as x86 first began life as desktop processors. Now they are being used in both servers and laptops. AMD64 is now enabling x86 in the server market in a big way. In the near future, we expect AMD64 processors to be used in network switches. Already, they are being used in embedded applications, and later they will be used across the complete computing spectrum. I believe x86 is here to stay, whether you love it or hate it.

    Whatever criticisms have been leveled at x86, it remains the longest surviving instruction set. No other instruction set has had this long a lifetime. Other instruction sets have come and gone, but x86 lives on. A technologist may not like x86; it may not be the sleek instruction set everyone would like to see, but in the end, it’s the end users who determine which technology will be used. The marketplace determines the acceptance of a particular instruction set.
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