Advantest’s VOICE 2013 Conference Attracts Over 300 Attendees

For the first time this year, Advantest added handlers to the program to highlight the company’s integrated test cell solution.

Continuing the tradition of high quality technical content, VOICE 2013 featured 66 presentations, 20 kiosks and 7 workshops with hands-on labs focusing on the latest semiconductor technologies and techniques. Presentations were organized in ten tracks covering real-world customer needs.

By vote, conference attendees recognized the following papers as the most outstanding:

•Best Paper 1 in the Test Techniques and Methodologies track, “Avoiding Hot Insertion and Hot Switching in Your Test Flows (V93000)” by Steven McKinley, Qualcomm.

•Best Paper 2 in the Test Engineering Efficiencies’ track, “Xbox Speech Recognition Assistant: Vision for Future Software Interface (T2000)” by Keith Schaub, Hu Yu and Minh Diep, Advantest.

“Now in its seventh year, VOICE continues to develop and grow with the addition of a handler track and in-depth product kiosks,” said Advantest’s Don Blair, chairperson of the VOICE 2013 conference committee. “The opportunity to talk technology with more than 300 peers from fabless semiconductor companies, test houses, foundries and integrated device manufacturers has made VOICE a must-attend event for the international test community.”

VOICE 2013 also included the keynote, Beyond 2020 – Creating True Value in the Future, by Glen Hiemstra, futurist and author.

“VOICE offers our global customer base the opportunity to learn best practices and techniques to reduce their testing time,” said Keith Lee, president and CEO of Advantest America, Inc. “The value of this forum is evident in the year-over-year increase in attendees and abstract submissions.”

Customers can purchase VOICE conference proceedings, including the presented papers, on a USB memory stick. To order a copy, go to www.advantest.com/VOICE2013. Early planning for next year’s VOICE conference is already underway. The steering committee for VOICE 2014, to be comprised of volunteer representatives from Advantest and its customers, will be formally announced in mid-2013.