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Introducing a Major
Breakthrough in Probe
Station Productivity
Cross-platform software with Velox 2.0
Cascade Microtech has evolved its probe station user environment to an unprecedented level of power and efficiency with
the latest release of Velox. This consolidates our Nucleus™
and ProberBench™ system software packages into a universal
platform that offers extraordinar y gains in speed and productivity.
Cascade Microtech does it again
Velox provides yet another proof point why
Cascade Microtech leads the way forward
in wafer probing systems and
technology. Velox delivers the
single most powerful and flexible
user environment available in the
semiconductor lab. Because Velox
harnesses the flexibility of Nucleus
and the power of ProberBench, it
enables the fastest time-to-job-
completion and improved productivity
for mixed environment labs. Velox is
backwards compatible with all current
Cascade Microtech platforms and at the same time provides
a “Go Forward” software platform with coherence to the
Microsoft Windows roadmap.
With Velox, everybody wins
Efficiency in wafer-level testing is a challenge that impacts
several functional areas. If you’re a Lab Manager or Team
Leader, you’re charged with getting test data to the production
floor quickly. If you’re an IT manager, you’re responsible for
maintaining a secure connection between the lab and corporate
networks. If you’re a finance manager, you need to ensure that
you’re maximizing your return on investment for lab equipment.
Velox resolves these diverse issues by presenting all users with a
single software platform. With Velox you get a tightly coordinated
team effort that eliminates redundancy and focuses expertise.
You achieve better results, faster. And since Velox operates under
Windows 7, you achieve a level of network security not previously
possible. All the while, you’re extracting maximum utility from
your lab’s equipment budget.
The ultimate in productivity
It’s long been shown that computer
users who work in a single operating
“With Nucleus, I
was only using the
bare minimum.
Velox has given
me the incentive to
incorporate new
things and functions
into my repertoire.”
– Test Engineer
maximum understanding of how to achieve the best results
in the shortest time. Engineers can move with ease and
confidence from one system to another. You work in a seamless
environment, one that requires a minimum of training to operate
with confidence.
environment will learn how to
manipulate it to achieve maximum
efficiency. In multiple platform
environments, their efficiency
inevitably drops.
Velox addresses this issue headon with a single interface that puts
all operators on the same page at
the same time. Uniform operations
mean minimum learning curves and
A perpetual pipeline to accelerated performance
Cascade Microtech has committed to semi-annual upgrades of
Velox via a new subscription ser vice. You now have a universal
platform that continually expands in power and functionality as we
add new capabilities. All probe station users, from the occasional
to the most experienced, stand to benefit from a continual flow of
research and development into existing and future products.
Multiple paths to automated productivity
One powerful path to increased efficiency is the automation
of repeatable test and measurement processes. Velox gives
you several options to simplify the setup and execution
of automated sequences on your probe stations. Many
automation features are now standard with Velox, such as
AutoAlign, which measures die size, tracks wafer expansion
and permits accurate sub-die navigation. Also, you can
address overall test automation through Velox compatibility
with WaferPro Express from Keysight Technologies,
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our partner in Wafer-level Measurement Solutions. For CM300
and BlueRay™ stations, we offer VeloxPro™, which maximizes
your throughput by automating prober control of wafer handling,
alignment, temperature control, Z-profiling and stepping. VeloxPro
test automation software is a SEMI E95 compliant user interface.
VeloxPro connects the dots providing the user a “guided” flow
through the operation of the probe system. This helps inexperienced
users or in production-like environments where the test sequence
can be set up by an engineer and the operator is only required to
start the test with a push of a button.
VeloxPro can be configured as a master
or the slave in a prober/test executive
“It only took me half
a day to come up to
speed on Velox. By
then, I felt confident
I could get the job
done. It was that
simple.”
– Technician
setup. In a slave configuration it receives
stepping commands through either
GPIB, LAN or RS232 interfaces. As the
master, VeloxPro controls wafer stepping
and triggers the test executive to test a
particular die. This communication is
managed through the tester interface
and basically requires the test executive
software only to wait for the trigger, run
the measurement and return an end of test signal when the prober
is requested to step to the next site.
An interconnection with WaferPro Express from Keysight
Technologies allows synchronization of wafer maps and
sub-die information, which delivers automated measurements.
Plus - Velox accepts legacy SCPI and SCI commands to put your
probe station under the test executive of your choice via GPIB,
TCP/IP or RS232.
The time to upgrade? Right Now
The end of support announcement for support of Windows XP
has already come and gone. As of April 2014, Microsoft’s support
and updating for XP came to an end. At about the same time, we
halted further development and enhancements to Nucleus and
ProberBench although support for these systems continues for
another seven years.
Given these developments, and given the new level of power and
productivity contained in Velox, it makes sense to move ahead
immediately and upgrade. The sooner you act, the sooner you benefit
from all the new functionality and increased productivity that Velox
puts within your reach.
For information on Velox, call 1-800-550-3279 Toll-Free in USA or
503-601-1122, or go to www.cascademicrotech.com/velox
One game changer after another
Velox incorporates numerous additions and enhancements
to our previous system software that accelerate your
time to accurate data. For the ultimate in sub-die
navigation, eVue™ now presents multiple images
of the surface area under test: full-die reference,
live sub-die and digitally zoomed sub-die.
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registered trademark, and Velox, Nucleus, ProberBench, BlueRay, eVue and VeloxPro
are trademarks of Cascade Microtech, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
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