Credence Partners

Speeding time-to-volume, reducing cost-of-test.

Credence's partners are vitally important to the success of semiconductor designers and manufacturers. Test must migrate from a passive activity to an enabling factor in speeding time-to-volume and reducing the cost-of-test. Outsource assembly and test (OSAT) providers are Credence partners who are making the semiconductor industry more efficient. OSAT providers include foundries, fabless semiconductor companies and test, assembly and packaging specialists. By focusing on their core competencies and thereby achieving exceptional economies of scale, OSAT providers have improved and streamlined the way semiconductors are manufactured.

As the industry's premier provider of design-to-test solutions for the global semiconductor industry, Credence also maintains close partnerships with the leading EDA suppliers. By applying leading-edge and cost-effective test and yield improvement technology to design-for-manufacturability requirements, Credence and its partners deliver competitive cost and performance advantages to integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless chip companies worldwide. Credence works closely with Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics Corp. and Synopsys Inc.