New Data Format Boosts Test Analytics

September 8 2020

Semiconductor Engineering's article highlighting the advances in data analytics with the proposed Rich Interactive Test Database (RITdb) standard coming from SEMI.  To support test operations, the CAST working group defined a streaming protocol for any data produced by a test cell component. This provides the meta-data about the test process that test factories can use to implement smart manufacturing.

“There’s a lot of flexibility in RITdb to handle multiple data sources,” said Mark Roos, CEO of Roos Instruments and co-chair of RITdb Taskforce. “This provides the flexibility to deal with the complexity of products that we have today.”

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RITdb facilitates complex testing and enables new test floor analytics
September 8th, 2020 - By: Anne Meixner

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Learn More about how Cassini and Guru implement various RITdb features.

Advancing ATE Strategy For mmWave Mass Market Production

March 19 2020

Cross posted:  https://roos.com/article_mmwave_journal_march2020.html

Mark Roos, CEO of Roos Instruments, published a technical feature article in March 2020 issue of Microwave Journal to promote Cassini platform that has addressed the critical issues surrounding mass market production of devices that use mmWave frequencies.

The automated test and measurement (ATE) landscape is rapidly changing, progressing beyond the capabilities of traditional bench-top and most legacy ATE systems. Varying and diverse performance requirements, testing speeds and frequencies used by modern cellular architectures (5G), Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and the latest feature dense systems-on-chip/systems-in-package (SoC/SiP) necessitate a different approach. This leverages a modular configuration focused on precise calibration, low loss device connections and high measurement accuracy with a small footprint and low capital expense. Modular architectures can provide future proof features and enable ATE systems to be faster and more accurate with less development. Not all modular ATE systems are created equal, however. At mmWave frequencies, test system configuration requires insight into the differentiating features between ATE systems as well as the bench-top units they typically replace.

Download the full article from Microwave Journal March 2020 Issue
View the Microwave Journal March 2020 online edition (page 58)
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"Sensing Change" from Freescale CTO

August 7 2012

Article Republished from our Partner (link)

Ken Hansen Freescale Chief Technology Officer

Did you know that Freescale delivered the world’s first silicon based pressure sensor for automobile engine control in 1980? Thirty years later, we are continuing this path of innovation by introducing the first fully integrated tire pressure monitor system. This System-in-a-Package senses the outside world through pressure, inertial, temperature, and battery life sensors, providing intelligence with an embedded microcontroller and software, and communicating to other systems through integrated RF and LF radio transceivers.

With more than one billion sensor units deployed in the field, Freescale continues delivering sensing firsts to the market. A recent automotive example is the 77 GHz radar silicon germanium (SiGe) integrated chipset—the most advanced SiGe on the market for active safety through collision avoidance. In the consumer market, Freescale is fueling the interactive video game revolution by deploying motion sensing accelerometers in the “Guitar Hero” series of games since 2008. Today, we’re innovating to make tomorrow’s products easier to use, arming them with embedded multicore processors and seamlessly integrated hardware and software with sensing support for up to 10 degrees of freedom.

Learn more about how our innovations in automotive, consumer, industrial, medical and multi-market applications can turbo-charge your solutions and, quite literally, add a human touch.

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