"As process development costs soar due to shrinking process nodes, accurate failure analysis is more critical than ever to semiconductor manufacturers"
Cascade Microtech is expanding its capabilities in the semiconductor failure analysis market.
In August 2005, the company introduced the eVue digital imaging system, a new tool for sub-micron probing to ease the problems of failure analysis on rapidly shrinking geometries.
Now the company announces that it has entered into a business and technology partnership with Credence Systems to further expand its failure analysis market penetration.
"As process development costs soar due to shrinking process nodes, accurate failure analysis is more critical than ever to semiconductor manufacturers.
"The partnership continues Cascade Microtech's reach into the semiconductor failure analysis market.
"We intend to expand our failure analysis solutions through strategic relationships and unique products.
"Credence's leadership in complete offerings of proven 65nm debug and diagnostics equipment is strategic to Cascade's launch of our failure analysis product line," said John Pence, vice president, engineering products division, Cascade Microtech.
"Cascade Microtech's vision and expertise will help Credence continue to meet our customers' aggressive roadmaps and demand for best in class small geometry measurement capabilities," said Ofir Baharav, senior vice president and general manager of Credence Systems.
"We are very pleased to be working with Cascade Microtech in this area".
Credence Systems is a provider of design-to-test solutions for the semiconductor industry.
With a commitment to applying innovative technology to lower the cost-of-test, Credence says it delivers competitive cost and performance advantages to integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), wafer foundries, outsource assembly and test (Osat) suppliers and fabless chip companies worldwide.
A global, ISO 9001-certified company with a presence in 20 countries, Credence is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Cascade Microtech describes itself as a worldwide leader in the precise electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures.
For technology businesses and scientific institutions that need to evaluate small structures, Cascade Microtech delivers access to, and extraction of, electrical data from wafers, integrated circuits (ICs) IC packages, circuit boards and modules, Mems, biological structures, electro-optic devices and more.
For semiconductor manufacturers doing production test, Cascade Microtech delivers leading-edge probe cards that reduce manufacturing costs of complex semiconductors.
