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| Giga Solution provides integrated RFIC wafer level testing solutions for GCT, speeding up product to the market |
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Hsinchu, Sep.24, 2003 – Giga Solution, the leading RF services company, announced today that it has provided GCT Semiconductor, an industry leader in radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) for wireless devices, wafer level testing services on CMOS RFIC (Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit) which is applied to handset and WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), successfully improving the yield rate and reducing the time to market.
Based on technical experiences of RF wafer-level integrated service, GS overcame the challenges in verification and qualification of probe, which are key technologies in RF wafer testing. Using VNA (Vector Network Analyzer) instead of probe analyzer, the engineers verified the RF probe trace performance to qualify the probe card. In further, the complete SOP (Standard Operation Procedure) and practiced operation of prober ensured the production efficiency from errors and also decreased testing time. Furthermore, GS successfully controlled the stability and repeatability, which are regarded as the most important parts of RF wafer level testing.
“Through GS’ state-of-the-art RF wafer-level integrated solutions, we successfully improved the yield in the stage of wafer level. The wafer level testing not only saves the cost in package ” said Dr. Kyeongho Lee, President and CEO of GCT semiconductor, “but also shortens the production time, providing us better time-to-market solutions, especially for new product manufacturing.”
Besides supplying complete solutions to RF wafer level testing, GS also cooperates with other partners in RF supply chain, such as foundries, package house…etc., so that GS can offer customers highly integrated technologies and solutions in RF field. Regarding to shipment, GS also provides drop shipment service. In addition, in the design stage of this product, GCT referred to RF CMOS models proven by GS as well. These are all GS’ high value-added services.
“Wafer level functional analysis and production testing can provide known good die information which is very important for MCM（Multi Chip Modules） and bare die selling. It also helps to reduce the high cost of package and RFIC development,” stated Dr. Liang-Po Chen, President of Giga Solution. “When designing a new product, the full functional test on RF wafer can enhance the real-time feedback from process to optimize the design more quickly and to improve the yield. Besides, with our excellent experiences in technology integration, GS’ full solutions in RF wafer production can provide customers better time-to-solutions and time-to-market.”
About Giga Solution Tech. Co., Ltd.
Giga Solution located in Taiwan is a leading total solution service provider from RFIC design service, verification to testing. Our design service includes CIP (Component IP) development (which offers test chip design, modeling generation and layout), foundry design kit and design platform integration. Besides, GS provides RFIC verification and production test service, including not only package test but also wafer level test to meet the demands of bare die business. Through GS’ various value-added services and a complete integration of RFIC development, customers can speed up the time to market for its products. More information about Giga Solution can be found at http://www.giga-solution.com.
About GCT Semiconductor
GCT Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions for the wireless communications industry. The company's patented direct conversion architecture, which is the basis for GCT's radio frequency (RF) core, can efficiently support multimode applications and be fabricated on standard CMOS processes. This versatile RF architecture can support many of the wireless communication standards, including CDMA, GSM/GPRS, 802.11b/g, and Bluetooth. The company's headquarter is located in San Jose, CA and its web site can be found at http://www.gctsemi.com |
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