Teradyne: The First Forty Years [Paperback] by Veen, Frederick Van - Softcover

Teradyne; The First Forty Years

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. xiv, [2], 344, [6] pages. Illustrated front cover. Footnotes. Illustrations. The primary source materials for this book were Teradyne publications and interviews with many employees and former employees. The author had a 40 year career in the electronics test and measurement industry, including 27 years at Teradyne where he was a Vice President from 1980 through his retirement in 1995. He was also a Director of SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) from 1974 through 1982. Teradyne, Inc. is an American automatic test equipment (ATE) designer and manufacturer based in North Reading, Massachusetts. Its high-profile customers include Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and IBM. Teradyne was founded by Alex d'Arbeloff and Nick DeWolf, who were classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1940s. The men founded Teradyne in 1960, and set up shop in rented space above Joe and Nemo's hotdog stand in downtown Boston. The name, Teradyne, was intended to represent a very forceful presence. 1,000,000,000,000 dynes = 10 meganewtons (2,248,089 pounds-force or 1,019,716 kilograms-force). d'Arbeloff and DeWolf knew that testing electronic components in high-volume production would reach a bottleneck, unless the tasks performed by technicians and laboratory instruments could be automated. Their business plan involved a new breed of "industrial-grade" electronic test equipment, known for its technical performance, reliability and economic payback. In 1961, d'Arbeloff and DeWolf sold their first product, a logic-controlled go/no-go diode tester, to Raytheon. In the 1980s, Teradyne expanded its sub-assembly test business by acquiring Zehntel, a leading manufacturer of in-circuit board test systems. In 1987, the company introduced the first analog VLSI test system, the A500, which led the market in testing integrated devices that provided the interface between analog and digital data. The 1990s brought more diversification. The company acquired Megatest Corporation, which expanded its Semiconductor Test group to include smaller and less expensive testers than had been currently available. Teradyne also became a market leader in high-end System-on-a-Chip (SoC) test with its Catalyst and Tiger test systems. Artikel-Nr. 90672

Verkäufer kontaktieren