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Key Takeaways:
- Probe Test Solutions Ltd (PTSL) has entered the RF Probe Card market with the launch of their PhazorRF product family, featuring the highest performance signal integrity RF probe card solution available.
- The PhazorRF probes target next-generation applications such as automotive radar, 5G, and 6G platforms, enabling customers to overcome performance barriers and reduce die size.
- PhazorRF offers ultra-low loss, high bandwidth, and customizable tip shapes and finishes for various applications.
- The probes are mechanically durable, ensuring stable contact over a long lifetime, and enable testing over a broad bandwidth or high frequency range while maintaining high production throughput with parallelism.
- Sampling to customers has begun, and volume production is expected in the second half of 2023.
PTSL’s Entrance to the RF Probe Card Market
Probe Test Solutions Ltd (PTSL), an established high-growth company and a world-leader in delivering advanced ATE test hardware solutions, has announced its entrance into the RF Probe Card market. PTSL introduces the PhazorRF product family, which offers the highest performance signal integrity RF probe card solution in the market. The PhazorRF probes specifically target next-generation applications such as automotive radar, 5G, and 6G platforms.
Jordan Mackellar, CEO of PTSL, highlighted the company’s recent round of financing and acquisition of ThinkMEMS, which has enabled them to solve the industry problem of limiting high frequency RF ICs or complex System on Chip (SoC) designs due to probe technology. The breakthrough PhazorRF technology removes performance barriers and allows customers to ultimately reduce die size.
PhazorRF™: Ultra-Low Loss, High Bandwidth Probe Cards
PhazorRF offers ultra-low loss and high bandwidth probes, enabling high device measurement accuracy from characterization to full ATE production. The probes feature customizable tip shapes and finishes, making them adaptable for various applications such as automotive and RF mobile chipsets, as well as advanced high pin count AI processors. In addition to superior electrical performance, PhazorRF probes are mechanically durable and designed for stable contact over a long lifetime.
PhazorRF addresses the challenge of testing over a broad bandwidth or high frequency range while maintaining high production throughput with higher levels of parallelism. It provides a solution for engineering characterization and volume production, ensuring accurate measurements and high throughput.
The PhazorRF technology is currently being sampled to customers and will be showcased at the SWTest Conference in San Diego from June 5-7, 2023. Volume production is planned for the second half of 2023.
About Probe Test Solutions Ltd (PTSL)
Probe Test Solutions Ltd (PTSL), founded in 2009 and headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, designs and manufactures probe cards. PTSL is a rapidly growing Automated Test Equipment (ATE) supplier in the semiconductor industry, offering innovative products and serving a diverse global customer base.
