Q-Star Test and Van Limburg Engineering announce a strategic partnership
unique supply current (IDD) test solutions combined with test program development services targeting test cost and time-to-volume reduction

Brugge/Staphorst, January 9, 2002 – Q-Star Test, the premier supplier of advanced high speed and high accurate IDD test solutions, and Van Limburg Engineering, a leading test program development service supplier, announce a strategic partnership.

Q-Star Test offers IDDx monitor solutions, supporting true IDDQ, delta IDDQ, IDDT and analog IDD test strategies applicable to digital, analog, and mixed signal circuits. Q-Star Test’s measurement hardware is ATE independent and outperforms other available ATE related IDD test hardware by at least a factor of 100 (with respect to measurement speed and accuracy). The hardware solutions are complemented with application and test strategy related consulting and training services.

Van Limburg Engineering offers test engineering services; high speed mixed signal, digital and analog, RF, Microwave, Bluetooth, SerDes and SOC test program development (hardware and software), test program conversion between different test platforms, test program development tools, implementation of new test methods, test time optimization, virtual testing and test data processing.

In addition to their soft- and hardware solutions, Q-Star Test and Van Limburg Engineering offer engineering training services. Q-Star Test focuses on IDD based DFT, test methodologies and test strategies as well as application specific IDD monitor support. The Van Limburg Engineering training program covers user training on diverse ATE equipment, fudamentals of digital/mixed signal test engineering and test program conversion between tester platforms.

The partnership between Q-Star Test and Van Limburg Engineering will allow customers to benefit from the combination of products and services offered. By combining Van Limburg Engineering’s software solutions with Q-Star Test’s measurement hardware, an easy route toward the implementation of a supply current based test strategies is created in a production test environment. Meanwhile, customers will benefit from a more effective utilization of their EDA tools, a reduction of test time and costs, and an improvement of product quality. The partnership will also allow Q-Star Test and Van Limburg Engineering to reinforce their market position and to provide the semiconductor market with cost effective and powerful soft- and hardware solutions to reduce test time and costs. The partnership is further supported by a cross marketing agreement, allowing customers access to the products and services offered by both using a single customer interface. Both companies support a total solution strategy and maximum customer satisfaction.

About Van Limburg Engineering
Founded in 1999, Van Limburg Engineering is an international engineering company specializing in semiconductor test related engineering. Van Limburg Engineering has offices in The Netherlands and the United States (Boston (MA), Dallas (TX), Irvine (CA), San Jose (CA)). Customers are IDM, ATE manufactures and ATE users. Systems supported are: Teradyne, Agilent, LTX, Advantest, 3MTS, Credence, Nextest, SZ Testsysteme, KVD etc.
Van Limburg Engineering worldwide web address is: http://www.vl-eng.com The company addresses are:
Weth.Ohmannstraat 6, 7951SB Staphorst, The Netherlands
2522 Chambers Road, Suite 110, Tustin, California, 92780 United States.

About Q-Star Test nv
Q-Star Test is the premier provider of IDD based test and measurement solutions. The company offers standard and customized products and services. Q-Star Test owns a number of different supply current measurement technologies, covered by a set of strategic patents. These technologies allow the creation of high speed, high accuracy supply current monitors, with the unique characteristic to be virtually transparent to the device under test and the ATE.
Q-Star’s worldwide web address is http://www.QStar.be
The company is located at L. Bauwensstraat 20, B-8200 Brugge, Belgium.



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