Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek Join Forces to Accelerate Integrated Photonics Innovations
November 14 2019 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, FormFactor,
Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), a leading provider of essential test and
measurement technologies along the full IC life cycle and
CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging silicon
photonic solutions (SiPh), have joined forces to accelerate
integrated photonics innovations.
Integrated photonics, also called silicon photonics, is a
revolutionary technology that multiplies data transfer capacities
while reducing power consumption and cost. While photonics
integrated circuits (PICs) offer an exciting alternative to the
limitations of traditional data center networking, they also
introduce new design and test challenges for component and device
manufacturers. Adoption of PICs is primarily dependent on an
industrial ecosystem comprised of new foundries, commercial
modeling tools and photonic test capabilities.
Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek, have jointly developed an
advanced photonics on-wafer testing solution that delivers
industry-first capabilities including automated alignment,
simultaneous optical-optical and optical-electrical device
tests.
The joint solution, to be offered by CompoundTek includes:
- The FormFactor CM300xi-SiPh, with automated wafer level
photonics positioning combined with Keysight’s industry standard
IL/PDL engines and N7700A Photonics Application Suite (PAS), to
support wavelength repeatability of ±1.5 pm at two-way sweeps up to
200 nm/s within 1240nm to 1650nm to ensure accuracy and
repeatability from O-band to L-band.
- Keysight’s N4373E 67 GHz Lightwave Component Analyzer which
delivers unprecedented bandwidth for both optical receiver testing
and optical transmitter testing with guaranteed specifications for
electro-optical S-parameter measurements for device
traceability.
- Keysight’s PathWave software platform which provides a
consistent user experience, common data formats and control
interfaces.
- FormFactor’s SiPh software that enables automated calibrations
and alignments and simplifies integration with Keysight’s PathWave
software platform, as well as optical instrumentation, to ensure
ease of use.
Silicon photonics also delivers benefits for industrial segments
such as intra data center communication and data center
interconnects (DCI), telecom, 5G and automotive connectivity,
high-performance computing, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), as
well as sensing and medical applications.
“Innovation in optics is critical to connect the world and help
the industry to monetize 5G, as well as data center and telecom
services,” said Dr. Joachim Peerlings, vice president of Network
and Data Center Solutions at Keysight Technologies. “Advancing in
speed as well as power and cost efficiency requires a tightly
connected eco-system to jointly solve the challenges ahead. We are
pleased with our partnerships and progress of enabling this
eco-system through our unmatched photonics test expertise.”
CompoundTek plans to establish a state-of-the-art silicon
photonics testing services hub in Singapore. The company’s chief
operating officer, K.S. Ang, commented, “With added on-wafer level,
automated Si photonics Optical/Electrical/RF testing with this
solution, customers will be able to limit packaging costs to avoid
module packaging level testing turn-around time losses. This test
solution complements our current services in mass production volume
with fast cycle-time, offered alongside world-class commercial
foundry capabilities that accelerate time-to-market to achieve
customers’ commercialization goals.”
“FormFactor’s industry-leading silicon photonics wafer test
capability allows our customers to obtain repeatable, consistent
results with unsurpassed throughput,” said Claus Dietrich, vice
president and general manager of the Systems Business Unit at
FormFactor. “The system’s automated and high-speed calibration and
optical alignment, as well as precision measurement capability in
collaboration with Keysight, enable CompoundTek to offer customers
faster time to market.”
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology
company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments
accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's
solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market
faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation,
to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in
networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide
communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive,
energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight
generated revenues of $3.9B in fiscal year 2018. Additional
information about Keysight Technologies is available in the
newsroom at https://www.keysight.com/go/news and on Facebook,
LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
About CompoundTek Pte Ltd
Founded and supported by industry veterans and technologists,
Singapore-based CompoundTek combines world-class commercial foundry
with leading silicon photonics (SiPh) research institutes to
provide cutting-edge SiPh technologies that enhance foundry
services capabilities. CompoundTek brings to the marketplace
revolutionary semiconductor applications designed to meet critical
requirements in high bandwidth and high data transfer solutions
particularly in emerging connectivity driving Industry 4.0. For
more information, visit http://www.compoundtek.com and
LinkedIn.
About FormFactor
FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), is a leading provider of
essential test and measurement technologies along the full IC life
cycle –from characterization, modeling, reliability, and design
de-bug, to qualification and production test. Semiconductor
companies rely upon FormFactor’s products and services to
accelerate profitability by optimizing device performance and
advancing yield knowledge. The Company serves customers through its
network of facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
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KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES EDITORIAL CONTACTS: Geri Lynne LaCombe,
Americas/Europe +1 303 662 4748 geri_lacombe@keysight.com
Fusako Dohi, Asia +81 42 660-2162 fusako_dohi@keysight.com
COMPOUNDTEK EDITORIAL CONTACTS: Mr. Victor Tan
tanvictor@compoundtek.com
FORMFACTOR EDITORIAL CONTACTS: David Viera
David.Viera@formfactor.com
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