Description

Today’s semiconductor industry has a rapidly growing demand for faster turn around times in product development and cost-effective manufacturing. This includes faster development of IC test solutions and parallel efforts to cover the large variety of products.

In many cases existing test solutions must also be transferred to new high speed test equipment to reduce the cost of test.

There are also upcoming demands from “fabless” ASIC design houses to help them transfer their ASIC designs to production.

These requirements often lead to resource shortages and requirements for additional expertise and therefore contracting out test development work has more and more become an established route.
Smartest GmbH, a privately owned, Munich based company, was founded to address these needs in a very flexible and efficient way.

Smartest offers a complete application package which is focused on short development times while minimizing the involvement of the customers resources in the out-sourced project.
This is achieved by offering a complete package of services for IC test applications, including:

• test concept engineering


• test program generation and debug


• the design and manufacturing of interface boards


• production integration


• product analysis


• documentation and training

The development process is monitored by computerized project planning and review tools. They are transparent to the customer and also open to the customers requirements in TQM. Finally the product support is guaranteed by a unique software warranty procedure.

This concept has proven to be very successful and today, Smartest supports a large number of tester platforms for customers all over the world.