WOBURN, MA — Masstech EMS today announced a family of service offerings
designed to help customers comply with changing environmental
regulations. The firm's Lead Free
Conversion Program helps OEMs prepare for and
comply with the EU RoHS directive.
PALO ALTO, CA -- Agilent Technologies today announced that Tessolve Inc., an independent semiconductor-test
engineering service provider in Bangalore, India, has purchased the
first Agilent 93000 Pin Scale system sold in that country.
Tessolve is
using the system to test digital and mixed-signal devices for its major
integrated device manufacturers and fabless customers as well as for
emerging local customers in India.
The system was chosen for its ability to test ICs, SOCs and SIPs within bandwidths of 200 Mbps to 3.6 Gbps.
India has already become a world leader in
software services, and is poised to do the same in the semiconductor
industry. According to Bryan Wang, an analyst at In-Stat, India will
have the world's fastest-growing electronics industry over the next
several years, outpacing even China. The Indian electronics market,
worth $11.5 billion in 2004, will hit a compound annual growth rate of
23% to reach $40 billion by 2010, said Wang.
Many top
semiconductor companies including Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM,
Samsung, Freescale, Toshiba and Infineon, have design and manufacturing
centers in India, which presents a clear opportunity for Tessolve.
"We
opened our 50,000 sq. ft. chip testing center in Bangalore to put
an end to India's testing limitations for SOC designs coming out of
India," said Raja Manickam, chief executive of Tessolve. "Now,
with our purchase of the Agilent 93000, Tessolve is positioned to
become India's leading independent semiconductor test house. Eighty
percent of India's semiconductor design houses are already based in
Bangalore, and the Agilent Pin Scale test system allows us to offer
them a low-cost, scalable platform that can be employed from
characterization to high-volume manufacturing."
WESTFORD, MA. & WAKEFIELD, MA – PLM provider MatrixOne and RuleStream Corp., provider of rules-driven product management (RPM) solutions, have integrated the companies' flagship products as part of an ongoing implementation at The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W).
B&W, a subsidiary of McDermott International, provides products and services to the power generation industry. The integration of RPM, PLM and MCAD systems allows B&W to use existing knowledge to create and manage raw material items, and provides thousands of possible part/spec combinations.
"Leading manufacturers are already shortening engineering time through process improvement supported by new rules-driven software," said Marc Halpern, research director at industry analyst firm Gartner. "In the future, the integration between PDM and the rules engine will allow innovative new products to be designed with CAD models using PDM-controlled parts and items that are based on specifications and the context of use. This will streamline the generation of project proposals, make estimates of project costs more accurate and maximize part reuse."
Engineers will be able to review their custom engineering designs, incorporate engineering changes--even those with complicated design dependencies--and ensure up-to-date product information from their MatrixOne PLM system and SolidWorks MCAD models.