Eagle Test Systems is a supplier of

automatic test equipment Automatic test equipment or automated test equipment (ATE) is any apparatus that performs tests on a device, known as the device under test (DUT), equipment under test (EUT) or unit under test (UUT), using automation to quickly perform measurements ...

(ATE) and operates as a business unit within the Teradyne Semiconductor Test Division. Eagle's test equipment was designed to address volume production. Customers, including semiconductor manufacturers and assembly and test subcontractors, use the products to test analog, a combination of digital and analog, known as mixed-signal, and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors.

History

Eagle Test Systems was founded by Len Foxman and began providing test solutions in 1976. Since October 1, 2003, they have delivered over 600 test systems to more than 60 customers worldwide. Prior to being acquired by Teradyne, global headquarters were located at its manufacturing facility in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. There, Eagle Test Systems operated sales, services and engineering support facilities in the United States through regional offices and globally through their offices in Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, China, Malaysia and the Philippines. Eagle Test Systems completed their initial public offering on March 14, 2006 (original stock ticker EGLT). On November 14, 2008 Eagle Test was acquired by Teradyne.Teradyne Completes Acquisition of Eagle Test Systems, Inc.
Retrieved on January 29, 2009

Competition

Teradyne's principal competitors in the

business are: *

Advantest is a Japanese leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry, and a manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design, production and maintenance of electronic systems including fiber optic and w ...

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LTX Xcerra Corporation (formerly LTX-Credence Corporation) is an American semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) vendor, founded in 1976 in (co-founder) Sol Max's basement, later moving to the Balco building in Newton & GTE building 3 in Needh ...

- Credence Systems Corporation (including its NPTest acquisition which was formerly Schlumberger Limited, formerly

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) *

Verigy Verigy Ltd was a Cupertino, California-based semiconductor automatic test equipment manufacturer. The company existed as a business within Hewlett Packard before it was spun off in 2006 as a standalone company. It was purchased by Advantest in 2011 ...

(formerly a division of

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and then Agilent Technologies)

References

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