The First Future of ATE Workshop



FATE2003



October 2 - 3, 2002

Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, North Carolina


Register for FATE at the International Test Conference and ITC Test Week Registration Site


Advance Program

Thursday, October 2, 2003
Session 1 4:00 – 5:45 pm Keynote Addresses
  4:00 pm Welcome: Tony Ambler, General Chair and Scott Davidson, Program Chair
  4:15 pm Keynote Address 1: Learnings from the 300mm Standardization Success, Devadas Pillai, Director, Operational Decision Support Technology, Intel
  5:00 pm Keynote Address 2: System Integration Challenging Manufacturing Test, Frank Maier, General Manager, SOC Test Platform Division, Agilent Technologies

  7:00 pm Break

Session 2 6:00 – 7:00 pm The Future of Parallel Testing. Chair: J. Rivoir, Agilent
  6:00 pm Massively Parallel Testing - The Future of ASIC Testing. Ken Posse, Teseda
  6:30 pm ZIP-ATE: Zero-to-Infinity Pins ATE Using Packet Switched Network. N. Nourani and S. Vengatachalan, University of Texas at Dallas

  7:00 pm Dinner


Friday, October 3, 2003
  7:00 am Continental Breakfast
Session 3 8:00 – 10:00 am The Tester of the Future. Chair: L. Song, Teradyne
  8:00 am Testers should be like rental cars - Sit down and drive. What users really need in a tester OS. Chris Nelson, Intel
  8:30 am Open Architecture Software for OPENSTAR(tm) Test Platform. Yuhai Ma, Advantest
  9:00 am Low Cost/DFT Testers + All the Missing Pieces = Truly Low Test Costs. Al Crouch, Inovys, Nikhil Dakwala, Stridge
  9:30 am Scalable Tester Architecture for Structural Test of Wafers and Packaged ICs. C. J. Clark and Mike Ricchetti, Intellitech
  10:00 am Break

Session 4 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Test Processes of the Future. Chair: S. Comen, Texas Instruments
  10:30 am The Commoditization of ATE. Joel Amtsfeld, Intel
  11:00 am The Role of Circuit Debug in the Future of ATE. Burnell West, NPTest
  11:30 am The Tester of the Future for the Factory of the Future. Jim Neeb and Andy Yiin, Intel
  12:00 pm Lean Test in the Factory of the Future. Brett Casey and Marisa Russell, Intel

  12:30 pm Lunch

Session 5 1:30 – 3:00 pm No Vectors, No Problem! Chair: R. Molyneaux, Sun
  1:30 pm Test Vectors Considered Harmful. Gordon Robinson.
  2:00 pm A Low-Cost Vectorless ATE-Channel Architecture for Testing High-Speed IO Signal Integrity in High Volume Manufacturing. Bernd Laquai, Ulrich Schoettmer, Agilent
  2:30 pm How to Meet Wireless Test World. Veikko Lokusa, Jukka Antila, Tapio Koivukangas, Nokia, Markku Moilanen, Oulu University

Session 6 3:00 pm Panel: So What is the Future of ATE?
  Moderator: Scott Davidson, Sun Microsystems
  Panelists: John C. Johnson, Intel
    Rick Nelson, Test & Measurement World
    Neil Kelly, LTX
    Other Panelist to be Announced

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General Chair
A. Ambler, U. T. Austin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Science Bldg. 513
Austin, TX 78712-1064
ambler@mail.utexas.edu
Program Chair
S. Davidson, Sun Microsystems
910 Hermosa Court
M/S USUN05-217
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
scott.davidson@sun.com
Finance Chair
R. Tekumalla, Sun Microsystems
Publications Chair
M. Gala, Texas Instruments
Program Committee
  • S. Blanton, CMU
  • C. J. Clark, Intellitech
  • A. Crouch, Inovys
  • J. C. Johnson, Intel
  • D. Keezer, Georgia Tech
  • R. Nelson, Test & Measurement World
  • K. Posse, Teseda
  • J. Rivoir, Agilent
  • G. Robinson
  • L. Song, Teradyne
  • B. West, NPTest

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Page prepared by Scott Davidson
Last modified: Fri August 29, 2003