Advantest Introduces Pin Scale 5000B Digital Test Solution to Extend Capabilities of V93000 EXA Scale Test Platform

Test Capabilities Designed to Address Increasing Complexity of

Next-Generation HPC and AI Devices

Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857), a leading supplier of semiconductor test solutions, today announced Pin Scale 5000B, an enhanced digital test solution for the V93000 EXA Scale Platform designed to address the growing test requirements of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) devices.

AI and HPC semiconductor capabilities and complexity are growing swiftly, driven by advanced process nodes, heterogeneous integration and chiplet-based architectures. These devices require significantly higher structural and functional test coverage and processing of rapidly increasing volumes of test data.

The Pin Scale 5000B card significantly expands available vector memory, offering deep and scalable storage capacity aligned with industry demands. Hardware and software facilitate optimal memory usage in chiplet-based architectures, reducing customers’ overall consumption and associated costs while addressing evolving memory requirements for the future. The new card also enables customers to efficiently scale their existing test programs and hardware configurations in response to evolving device requirements.

This solution is engineered to accommodate contemporary scan fabric architectures, enabling concurrent testing of multiple IP cores using a streaming approach. Its new hardware capabilities allow test results to be observed across multiple cores within a single test pattern execution, enabling instantaneous insights into error distribution among the cores. These capabilities help improve structural coverage and core-level visibility, significantly reducing test times and cost-of-test.

The Pin Scale 5000B delivers high-bandwidth test access, offering data rates up to 5 Gbps through the proven pin electronics architecture of the Pin Scale 5000. Pin Scale 5000B is a fully compatible superset of the established Pin Scale 5000, complementing the V93000 portfolio.

“With AI and HPC devices pushing the limits of scale and integration, semiconductor test solutions must evolve just as rapidly,” said Ralf Stoffels, executive officer and division manager, V93000 Product Unit, Advantest. “Pin Scale 5000B builds on and complements our existing proven Pin Scale 5000 card to further expand the capabilities of the V93000 EXA Scale platform with the performance and scalability our customers need to address increasing device complexity.”

The Pin Scale 5000B digital test instrument is now ramping with key customers.

Credit: Advantest