ATE PCBs Services
Caliber Interconnects is your reliable partner for innovative design and routing solutions tailored to ATE (Automated Test Equipment) test interface boards. Our specialized team of designers works closely with your engineering experts, meticulously following your design and DFM (Design for Manufacturability) guidelines. With an unwavering commitment to delivering superior quality, we guarantee the efficient and prompt development of high-yield ATE boards.
Our Expertise
Signal Integrity Assurance
Each ATE board undergoes rigorous electrical analysis to guarantee optimal signal integrity. Our hand-performed signal routing takes into account critical factors like PCB stack-up, distance to reference planes and power-to-ground configurations, meticulously minimizing crosstalk and distortion.
- We are well-versed in working with major ATE board fab houses and specs, as well as leading probe card assembly houses
- Our remarkable capability allows us to route a staggering 40000 nets in just 2 days for memory probe cards
- We excel in designing probecards with tailored in-house signal integrity analysis capabilities
- In addition to memory probe cards, bench probecards, we excel in designing RF probe cards and load boards
- Precise Placement and Routing:
We offer placement and routing services for various board types, ensuring meticulous impedance and length matching for precise testing
- Prototype Design:
Driven by machine learning, our robot possesses the finesse to adeptly manage a wide array of components. This adaptability positions it within any testing environment, guaranteeing a harmonious fit
- Probe Card Specialization:
From epoxy cantilever to blade, WLP (Wafer-Level Packaging) and vertical contact probe cards, including COBRA probe cards, we cover a wide spectrum of probe card types
- Versatile Testing:
Our specialization spans low power and high-speed testing for digital, analog, mixed-signal and RF devices. We employ high-speed layout techniques to minimize distortion, delays and noise
- Materials Selection:
Rigorous material selection ensures our boards exhibit lower inductance and higher signal strength
- Industry Insight:
We possess comprehensive knowledge about test sockets, probers, handlers and docking systems, offering support for various tester platforms such as Verigy, Advantest, Teradyne, LTX-Credence, Yokogawa and more
- Signal Integrity Focus:
Our design process prioritizes signal integrity, adhering to IPC standards like IPC-2221, -2222, -2223, and IPC-7351
- Manufacturing Expertise:
We are well-versed in various manufacturing processes, including DFM (Design for Manufacturing), DFA (Design for Assembly), DFT (Design for Test) and ICT (In-Circuit Test)
- Precision Integration:
Precision analog and mixed signal integration, coupled with edge-coupled and tandem differential pairs, ensures exceptional results. We pay meticulous attention to skew matching based on signal rise time
- Optimized Stack-Up:
Our board stack-up is optimized, featuring controlled impedance for micro stripline, stripline, and dual stripline stackups. We employ advanced routing techniques, including blind and buried vias, micro-via and via-less routing, constraint-driven placement and routing
ATE PCBs Services
Advanced Board Design
Our vast experience includes designing probecards for diverse applications, earning us repeat business requests from leading probecard vendors worldwide.
Designing probecards with high pin counts and densities demands meticulous attention to detail, with routing signal and ground traces typically accounting for over 50% of the total design time. Achieving board planarity and precise trace length matching require significant manpower.
Customized EDA Tools Extension: Caliber Interconnects excels in addressing challenges by extending EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools with customized capabilities.
- In House Software Innovation: Our in-house software team has developed intelligent tools and utilities, streamlining the design process and enabling fast turnarounds.
- Rapid Trace Routing: We possess the capability to route 2000 traces in a day, ensuring that we meet even the most demanding customer timelines efficiently.
Our expertise extends to Cadence SiP digital and Cadence SiP RF tools, ensuring the utmost precision in SiP (System in Package) design.
Design Highlights:
Probe Card Variety: We boast extensive experience in designing a wide range of probecards, including fine pitch, high density, multi dut diagonal and RF cantilever probecards.
Comprehensive Solutions: Our expertise extends to vertical probecards, space transformers, MLO/MLC substrates, low leakage parametric probecards, blade cards, motherboards, RF probecards, wafer sort performance interface boards and motherboards.
Electrical Simulation: We excel in electrical simulation of probecard and probe pins, minimizing layer count and achieving zero tolerance routes for efficient and effective designs.
Diverse Device Types: Our portfolio includes boards designed for high-frequency memory, logic and RF devices. We possess an in-depth understanding of tester instrumentation and prober technology.
Loadboard Design Expertise :
At Caliber Interconnects, we excel in creating high-performance loadboards crucial for IC testing, reducing test pass failures. Our ATE (Automated Test Equipment) engineers design flexible schematics, accommodating future test needs.
Diverse Device Proficiency :
We design loadboards for various devices, including SoC, Mixed Signals, LCD, Memory, Image Sensors, Power, Digital, Analog and RF, even for high pin-count BGAs and 28Ghz devices.
Performance Assurance :
We employ high-speed design techniques and rigorous signal integrity analysis, supported by extensive tester libraries, ensuring precision and efficiency.
Trust our knowledge of handlers and instrumentation for both high and low tolerance performance.
We cater to a wide array of tester platforms such as:
- Verigy, Eagle, Teradyne, LTX/Credence
- Advantest, Mosaid, National Instruments
- Inovys, Yokogawa, Minato
- Ando, Semiplex, Teseda
- Our team includes highly skilled and experienced professionals and we have access to extensive libraries and ATE templates
- We are experts in using EDA tools and can customize them to meet specific project needs
- We have developed our own software tools to streamline the design and layout process
- We can route up to 20000 nets per day
- Our interactive design environment includes video and web conferencing for seamless collaboration
- All critical load boards undergo thorough simulation
- Our test and application engineers verify all deliveries for quality assurance
