The Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC), the proponent of worldwide adoption of the Open Semiconductor Test Architecture (OPENSTAR) standard, on Wednesday announced that Infineon Technologies has joined the consortium's global roster.

STC said the addition of Germany-based Infineon takes the consortium's European membership to 13 companies - 28% of the total corporate membership.

"Infineon has a wide product portfolio, ranging from discretes to power, automotive to RF, and mixed-signal ICs," explained Klaus Luther, Infineon's senior director of corporate test technology and STC co-vice chairman. "We count on the open platform concept to enable a higher degree of flexibility of our assets as well as better re-use of the competencies of our test engineers across several applications and product generations. It is Infineon's intention to eliminate redundant R&D expenses, such as switching cost by architecture, along with interface and software convergence of our test solutions."

STC secretary and administrator Bob Helsel added, "Having prominent European companies such as Infineon join our existing members further strengthens the burgeoning OPENSTAR ecosystem. The STC values the strength and knowledge base that these international companies bring to the consortium. We look forward to their future contributions and leadership as we continue to drive open hardware, software and interface standards that provide significant economic and infrastructural benefits associated with the longevity and scalability of the open architecture defined by the STC."

The OPENSTAR platform, designed to enable open-architecture test solutions that offer true hardware and software interoperability with unparalleled technical and economic benefits, is now supported by a total of 86 global members, consisting of semiconductor, equipment and instrumentation companies, universities, standard test interference language (STIL) users, and individuals, according to STC.

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