GuideTech Announces Programming Tool for Teradyne

Business Wire, June 11, 2007

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- GuideTech, the leading provider of high-throughput precision test and measurement instruments for the semiconductor design and manufacturing industries, today announced a new test program development tool for the Teradyne IG-XL.

"In reviewing our new installations, it was clear our Teradyne customers were under extreme time pressure to develop and deploy production test programs," said Frank McKiney, GuideTech's CEO and president. "The programming tool will reduce the time it takes to develop test programs while providing a familiar Teradyne IG-XL look and feel. The programming tool supports test templates and Intellisense drop down menus for creating an IG-XL test program, and can be utilized with various IG-XL versions and test platforms from Teradyne."

About the GuideTech Femto 2000

The Femto 2000 enables users to cost-effectively tailor legacy, low-cost, mid-range and high-end test systems to address customer driven test requirements. The ability to add timing measurements when needed enables contract manufacturers to capture new business while minimizing their capital investment. The Femto 2000 is being used for high-throughput production timing testing of PLLs, Phase Noise, PCI Express, CMOS Imaging, WiFi and cell phone devices on numerous ATE Platforms including Teradyne, Verigy, Nextest and Credence.

About GuideTech

GuideTech is the leading supplier of production-scale high-performance CTIA-based timing measurement solutions, allowing semiconductor manufacturers to minimize timing-related failures and to dramatically reduce production test costs through test-time reduction and extending their ATE lifecycles. GuideTech customers indicate average savings of 30-50% in their cost-of-test as a result of deploying our products. GuideTech is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, please contact Ron Lau at (408) 731-8894 or rlau@guidetech.com. Visit the company's Website and view the new corporate video at www.guidetech.com.