June 15, 2011 – Marketwire — Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY), semiconductor test equipment provider, won orders for its V93000 HSM platform to perform volume test on GDDR5 memory at a large Korean customer.
The Verigy V93000 HSM6800 delivers at-speed, high-throughput, automated memory test on ultra-fast GDDR5 graphics memory devices (4Gbps+ per-pin operation). The Korean memory maker selected the V93000 HSM6800 for its test speed headroom up to 8Gbps, along with high yield and throughput.
GDDR5 graphics DRAM handles bandwidth-heavy graphics applications such as graphic cards, game consoles, and high-end consumer media products. The Verigy V93000 addresses the specific features of new-generation GDDR5: The memory architecture uses data bus inversion (DBI) and address bus inversion (ABI) to improve signal integrity and lower power consumption. An error detection and correction mechanism, via a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) algorithm, detects data transmission errors on the high-speed signal lines to maintain system stability. GDDR5 provides two-to-three times the memory bandwidth of its predecessor, GDDR3, with data rates up to 8Gbps.
Verigy has sold V93000 systems in the past to Freescale, Princeton Technology, OKI…
Verigy provides advanced semiconductor test systems used in design validation, characterization, and high-volume manufacturing test. Additional information about Verigy can be found at www.verigy.com.
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