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Auriga Microwave  With 80 years of combined modeling and design experience, and working with the industry’s most sophisticated technology in high-powered RF and microwave devices, Auriga designs, manufactures and delivers balanced solutions. By creatively optimizing efficiency, linearity and size, our customers receive a balanced solution that meets or exceeds their specifications based on performance, time and money.

  • AU4750 Pulsed IV/RF System  The AU4750 Pulsed IV/RF System is a standalone bench-top solution for measuring pulsed IV/RF data in pulsed DC device modeling. See how self-heating and trap-effects affect your device down to measurement widths of 200ns.

  • Microwave and Design Solutions For more than 30 years, members of the Auriga Modeling and Design teams have been pushing the limit of RF measurement science. Auriga has the experience to help companies achieve never-before-seen MMIC designs and non-linear models with unparalleled performance. Supplementing customers’ design and modeling resources or delivering turnkey solutions, Auriga is a “sure fire” asset to getting products to market faster, more efficiently and with higher confidence for success.

  • ATE Services  Our turn-key, fully automated, component test systems provide a single-connection, multiple measurement architecture used in both low volume and high volume manufacturing of high frequency commercial and military modules and MMIC devices, such as transmit and receive modules (T/R), LMDS and MMDS CPE and Base station testing.

  • Bias Tees  Auriga bias tees are designed to balance RF performance with power handling capability. Auriga Bias Tees available up to 100W RF and 15A of DC current.

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Checkpoint Technologies, founded in 1995, established the goal of providing the world's finest laser scanning tools for the semiconductor marketplace. The achievement of this goal led Checkpoint to build state-of-the-art laser scanners, electrical source/amplifiers in addition to complete systems. Today they are the worlds leading supplier of Laser Scanning Microscope based equipment for the semiconductor industry. If you have worked in the FA environment (regardless of the manufacturer), you have almost certainly used the Checkpoint Scanner without realizing it.



  • The InfraScan 300 TDE is the worlds leading laser scanning tool for locating failures in IC devices.

  • The InfraScan 300 INV is the optimal tool to verify new IC designs.

  • The ASP-1000 is the most sensitive source/amplifier designed for Laser Based Defect Localization.

  • The SLS-1000 Single Laser Module is designed for Laser Based Defect Localization applications.

  • The DLS-1000 Dual Laser Module is designed for Laser Based Defect Localization applications.

  • Application Notes for LIVA, TIVA, Emission etc.

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Flir

FLIR Systems was established in 1978 to pioneer the development of high-performance, low-cost infrared (thermal) imaging systems for airborne applications. Today FLIR Systems is a leading manufacturer of innovative imaging systems that include infrared cameras, aerial broadcast cameras and machine vision systems. With the new ThermoVision A-Series Infrared Cameras comes the ability to be affordable and accurate. These infrared cameras are ideal for research and development, design validation, thermal analysis and any application where fast, reliable and economical thermal evaluation is important.

  • A320G  The Flir A320G infrared camera system is an affordable way to add Thermographic imaging and non contact temperature measurements to any machine system. Easy Plug and Play, Gigabit Ethernet, Precise timing and control. Supported by FLIR software packages. The A320G includes image presentation in C-video PAL/NTSC and MPEG-4 as well as the standard 16 bit.

  • A20M  A compact ThermoVision industrial automation camera. This fully-integrated system provides a visual understanding of thermal performance and immediately identifies thermal problems otherwise undetectable.

  • A40M  Similar to the A20M with built-in logic, intuitive menu-driven configuration, multiple cursors and independent alarms, real-time color video output, numerous connectivity interfaces, and plug-and-play network configurations.

  • Software is available for a number of solutions including Freeware. For the Researcher there is the ThermaCAM Researcher 2.8 which is quite powerful.

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Grund Technical Solutions designs and manufactures innovative, leading edge Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) test equipment for the semiconductor and electronics industries.

  • Arcus is a flying point HBM ESD testing solution. This system provides both improved flexibility and accuracy for packaged parts, bare die, and wafer level testing. Arcus' new ESD technology (patent pending) eliminates problems associated with relay-based testers. Unwanted stresses are not applied to the Device Under Test (DUT) during ESD testing, preventing erroneously low or high failure level indications.

  • Tarvos IEC 61000-4-2 Waveform tester. The Tarvos provides convenient pulse testing of devices, applying the system level IEC 61000-4-2 testing method to components at the wafer, packaged device, board, or sub-assembly level via a 50 ohm cable.

 

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Minus K® Technology, Inc. based in Los Angeles, was founded in 1993 to develop, manufacture and market our state-of-the-art vibration isolation products based on our patented negative-stiffness-mechanism technology. By reducing building and floor vibrations to unprecedented levels these systems enable vibration sensitive instruments and equipment to perform at unprecedented levels.

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Whole Plant Characterization Phenotype Screening Corporation is your one-stop partner for plant root system research. Under funding from the US Department of Energy's Inventions and Innovations Program, we have developed a novel, high-throughput, high resolution and non-destructive system to image and characterize plant roots

  • Germination and Growth Service will receive your seed samples, germinate them and grow them in our Plant Growth Container and Substrate sets.

  • Root Imaging Service  Plant root systems grown in our x-ray transparent Plant Growth Container and Substrate sets can be imaged using one of our low energy digital x-ray systems.

  • Complete X-Ray Systems Plant Scientists who have a large throughput requirement or some kind of proprietary application may purchase complete x-ray systems. Because of the wide variety of plants and container sizes, each application will dictate the details of cabinet size, stage travel, etc.

  • Plant Growth Containers offers a wide range of substrate and container sizes to suit the needs of various plants and growth periods.

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Robson Technologies provides solutions for Failure Analysis, package development, prototype engineering, wafer sort, and production test. RTI's products focus on custom test sockets, test fixtures, and turnkey test solutions for integrated circuits, hybrids, and small printed circuit boards. RTI is the manufacturer for the latest MegaTrace, MultiTrace and AutoTrace solutions for curve tracing and latch-up testing of semiconductors up to 2047 total pins, the industry standards leader.

RTI's Curve Trace Test Systems, the MegaTrace, MultiTrace and MT Century provide complete turn-key solutions with its new family of Curve Trace equipment. From a small 54pin desktop solution all the way up to a 2160pin mobile system, RTI can provide a kit that will meet or exceed your test requirements.

Test Sockets; RTI designs and manufactures a large variety of sockets to test integrated circuits and hybrids. The company focuses on providing solutions for unique package types in addition to many standard packages including CSP, LLP, QFN and BGA.

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RIGOL Technologies was started in the Summer of 1998 and today, Rigol Technologies is a rapidly growing Test and Measurement Manufacturer. 2010 marks the 12th year in business with the sales expectation of more than 50,000 Digital Storage Oscilloscopes (DSO) this year. Oscilloscopes are now available to 1GHz, 4 channel and 5GSa/s. RIGOL is the second largest DSO manufacturer in the world in terms of units. Rigol Technologies designs and manufacturers all products, including Power Supplies, Spectrum Analyzers, Multimeters and Waveform Generators at the 20 acre technology campus and fully supports all products and Three Year Warranty here in the Ohio facility.

 

 

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sqp

SQP Products provides state-of-the-art transmission line pulse (TLP) test
systems that play an integral part in most any ESD test lab, substantially reducing chip
design cycle time. The Pulsar 900 has proven field reliability inclusive of the test capabilities required to meet the industry challenges. This system
now has an optional HBM module in addition to automated prober integration. (NEW)

  • Pulsar 900 is a state-of-the-art Transmission Line Pulse test system. This system provides the precision and reliability required by IC designers, ESD structure designers and manufacturers.  It includes the pulse generator, a computer preloaded with all the test software, necessary cabling and a test socket (an oscilloscope in not included and may be ordered if desired).

  • ATS Auto Test System automates component-level TLP testing, delivering the current pulse sequentially to the individual pins on your device under test (DUT). This system replaces the time-consuming task of manually attaching clips or leads to your DUT, one pin at a time.

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Signatone, as the number two prober manufacturer in the world,  has a well earned reputation for manufacturing high quality, rigid and stable probe stations for over 40 years. These probe stations are rich in features and capability, easily used in today's FA and R&D environment. The probers provide a leading edge in performance, reliability and accuracy. The Checkmate series incorporates their design motto: make it strong, stable, very accurate and exceptionally easy to use.

  • The Checkmate Series, The robust standard for 200mm and 300MM Analytic probe station is an excellent solution for a very stable platform that can accommodate most any configuration required. This system can be either a manual system or fully semi-automatic. A manual system can be upgrade to semi-auto in the field. The CM250/350 has repeatability to 0.1um.

  • The WL Series up to 300mm, The WaveLink fully shielded RF Microwave & Low level Probe Stations provide an excellent solution for an extremely stable and very accurate environment.

  • The S-460 Series, a 6" semiautomatic table top probing solution.

  • The S-1160 Series, a 4'', 6'' or 8" manual probing solution.

  • Hot and Cold chucks (-65 to +200) with Temperature Controllers with fully triaxial temperature chucks.

  • Automated QuadPro, a Resistivity System utilizing Four-Point Probes

  • MEMS Testing micro probing equipment for MEMS applications

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WITec is a manufacturer of high-resolution optical and scanning probe microscopy solutions for scientific and industrial applications like: Scanning Near-field optical Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy and Raman Microscopy.

  • alpha300 S -- features a Confocal Microscope (CM), a Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope (SNOM) and an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in a single instrument.
  • alpha300 R -- features a confocal Raman microscope that offers the unique ability to acquire chemical information non-destructively with a resolution down to the optical diffraction limit (~ 200 nm).
  • alphaControl -- the patented alphaControl has introduced a completely new approach to controlling Scanning Probe Microscopes, achieving the best possible results with extremely low noise levels.

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Zyvex Instruments provides complete Nanoprobing solutions for the semiconductor industry. This includes a suite of Nanoprobing characterization tools for the semiconductor industry and advanced research markets, including 4, 6, and 8 probe systems. Application packages are available that provide enhanced functionality inclusive of Temperature, Low Noise, Image Capture and E-Beam Current Analysis.

  •  nProber -- An eight-positioner nanomanipulator system designed and optimized to electrically probe sub-100nm features on semiconductor devices. The system consists of a state-of-the-art Zyvex Nanomanipulator, an FEI Quanta™ 200 FEG SEM, a parametric analyzer, an advanced anti-contamination system, and custom software to control and integrate each component.
  • dProber -- A six-positioner, door-mountable solution for the semiconductor failure analysis industry. The System consists of a state-of-the-art Zyvex Nanomanipulator and XYZ sample stage, a parametric analyzer, an advanced anti-contamination system, an industrial grade load lock, and custom software to control and integrate each component.
  • sProber -- A four probe system uniquely designed for the customer’s existing SEM or FIB System. The user can easily install and remove the system. The System consists of a state-of-the-art Zyvex Nanomanipulator and sample stage, a parametric analyzer, an advanced anti-contamination system, and custom software to control and integrate each component.