Advantest joins Presto supply chain expertise

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA: Presto Engineering, a player in integrated test and product engineering services, announced the establishment of a strategic collaboration with Advantest Corporation to address the needs of the semiconductor industry.

The collaboration between the companies, as a press note explains,  encompasses Advantest test-technology, combined with Presto Engineering's comprehensive product-engineering and supply-chain-management capabilities.

"With the addition of the Israeli hub to our team earlier in the year, we are now a global provider of product engineering services", stated Dr. Michel Villemain, Presto Engineering founder and CEO. "Through this partnership, customers can access a full range of services including test hardware design and production, test program development and access to Advantest's leading V93000 and T2000 series test platforms, through migration to a full volume production line".

The Presto Engineering Hubs complement their wafer-level and packaged part test services with test program generation, special probe technology development for high-frequency / RF applications, probe cards and load board development. Additionally, Hub customers can take advantage of comprehensive turn-key solutions including qualification (reliability testing for temperature, environmental and electrical stresses) both physical and electrical fault isolation and failure analysis, all the way to supply chain management.