Press Release

Siliconware and GuideTech Join Forces to Provide Cost- Effective Timing Test Solution for High-Volume Semiconductor Production

GuideTech’s Femto System Selected for Multi-Channel High-Speed Video Graphics Testing

SUNNYVALE, Calif., December 19, 2000—GuideTech, a leading innovator in the precision time measurement instruments market, today announced a multiple system order for GuideTech’s Femto 2000 from Siliconware Precision Industries Ltd. of Taiwan (NASDAQ:SPIL), a primary subcontractor for the world’s leading fabless companies. The systems will be integrated into the Agilent (NASDAQ: A) 93000 SOC test system to support fast-growing graphics accelerator semiconductor manufacturers. Siliconware customers in high-performance graphics and communication devices are facing the accelerating requirement for cost-effective, high-speed timing tests in highvolume production. GuideTech’s Femto 2000 systems address these requirements with accurate timing measurements on small amplitude differential signals and simultaneous measurements on multiple signals in parallel. Eight independent measurement channels capable of directly measuring small amplitude differential signals make the Femto 2000 systems the ideal production test solution for high-performance graphics and communication devices. The systems deliver precision high-speed timing measurements to multiple device channels in milliseconds and in parallel.

"In 1998, GuideTech foresaw this trend in semiconductor testing and identified the critical need for cost-effective, high-speed timing test coverage, which is lacking in ATE systems,” said Dr. Arnon Gat, CEO, GuideTech. “The selection of Femto systems by Siliconware confirms this emerging trend. Relationships with companies of this caliber demonstrate the leading position that GuideTech has taken in the semiconductor testing equipment market.”

"As a broad-based assembly & test company striving to supply top notch services and support to many leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers, it is essential that we seek out best-in-class solution providers,” said Mr. T.F. Lee, Vice President, Siliconware. “ We are confident that the best precision timing test solution was provided to our high-end graphics customers by GuideTech’s Femto 2000.”
 

About GuideTech

GuideTech, the leading innovator in high-performance time measurement instruments, provides manufacturers of advanced semiconductor products with the solutions they need to verify the performance of high-frequency devices and to economize testing. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and founded in 1988, the company is the first to deliver a cost-effective, high-end timing measurement solution to the production ATE market. For more information on GuideTech, please visit the company’s Website at http://www.guidetech.com, or call (408) 733-6555 x240.
 

About the Femto Product Family

Based on leading edge Time Interval Analyzer (TIA) technology, GuideTech’s Femto family of products is capable of measuring jitter, frequency and rise times, within milliseconds, at very high frequencies. These fast, accurate timing measurements, combined with high measurement acquisition rate, eight parallel measurement channels and the capability to directly measure differential signals, make the Femto an optimal production test solution for PLLs, clock buffers and high speed serial data and communications devices.
 

About Siliconware

Located in Taichung, Taiwan, Siliconware Precision Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ:SPIL) is a broad based comprehensive assembly and test company that can meet all of its customer’s IC packaging and testing requirements. For more information about Siliconware, visit www.spil.com.tw.