Hsinchu, Taiwan, Mar. 23, 2009 –Giga Solution Tech. (TW:3559), the only professional test service corporation focusing on RFIC/SiP/SoC test area, and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC; TW:3443), the leading fabless ASIC and SoC design foundry, today announced the jointly developed test service solution for RF SiP of mobile TV tuner has successfully achieved mass production.

Giga Solution is the only Taiwan test service provider capable of developing comprehensive test solution for RFIC, RF SiP and RF SoC.  “The mass production test solution of RF mobile TV tuner SiP jointly developed by Giga Solution and GUC includes mass production test on both RF KGD (Know Good Die) and SiP. It can effectively help customers improve the final product yield and substantially reduce manufacturing cost of the SiP. Before the RF SoC can be developed, the RF SiP solution can certainly help customers shorten time-to-market, time-to-volume and facilitate time-to-profit as a result,” said Liang Po Chen, general manager of Giga Solution.

“With the prevalence of the smart handset, SiP becomes a must to accommodate all the features required while we maintain compact form factor. The adoption of SiP techniques in wireless communication IC has become a trend” said Jim Lai, president and COO of GUC. “This RF SiP production test solution for mobile TV tuner proves that GUC’s SiP production flow launched in 2008 as the industry first has successfully integrated the RF and analog SiP technology. Customers now have more alternatives to achieve even better time-to-market and time-to-volume with our production proven flow.”

The latest mobile terminals and consumer electronics products have typical built-in communication functions such as Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, FM radio, Mobile TV, GPS, WiMAX, etc. To successfully assemble various selective features into a single device according to different market requirements in a very short marketing window, SiP is the key. More and more system manufacturers, especially those of cell phones and portable devices, have adopted the new SiP module for a fast and low risk way to realize their products.

The RF SiP poses great challenges during functional verifications, test, and mass production. The challenges in test alone include RF modulation signal generation and calibration, development of test on Bit Error Rate (BER), precision of RF Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) test, system scan test, built-in self-test technique, and maturity of ADC/DAC test. One has to think from the system level to develop the SiP product in order to address the challenges from various aspects from system design, SoC design, SoC/package co-design to testability and cost. This joint development of Giga Solution and GUC successfully surmounts the great challenges and at the same time presents an effective solution to the industry.