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Analog's test facility for ICs

Anand Parthasarathy

To install automated equipment

BANGALORE: The U.S.-based signal processing chip leader, Analog Devices, on Friday beefed up its Bangalore-based product development muscle with the installation of a state-of-the-art automated test equipment (ATE) facility for integrated circuits.

This will significantly reduce the cycle time to turn a chip design idea into a production prototype, Gerald (`Jerry') McGuire, Analog's General Manager for Convergent Services and Platforms, said here.

Hitherto, the 150 plus engineers at the Bangalore centre depended on ATEs housed in the Norwood, Massachusetts (U.S.) headquarters. But the pace of developments flowing from the Indian end of the company's operations — three generations of their flagship `Sharc' digital signal processor were developed here — has persuaded Analog to invest more than one million dollars in setting up a facility.

Sai Krishna Mopuri, who heads Analog Devices' product and test engineering activity, said the new facility would be deployed round the clock, sharing it with other development centres worldwide and enabling the Bangalore team to interact seamlessly with similar systems in multiple manufacturing centres, once a design was released for quantity production.

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