Advantest’s VOICE 2024 records record attendance in San Diego

Leading semiconductor test equipment provider Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) has successfully completed VOICE 2024 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in San Diego, California. The event was held June 3-5 and attracted a record attendance of over 400 attendees, the majority of whom were Advantest customers and industry partners. This year’s VOICE event coincided with Advantest’s 70th anniversary, and the company was excited to celebrate this milestone with long-time customers and industry partners.

The VOICE 2024 committee received 225 abstract submissions from 40 global companies across 14 countries. Of these abstracts, 78 papers were presented over two days – most of which were written or co-authored by Advantest’s customers. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) track was added to this year’s technical program, in addition to a wide range of topics important to the automatic test equipment (ATE) industry, such as 5G/millimeter wave, high performance computing, cloud technologies, and system-level testing.

This year’s event also featured an exciting lineup of three keynote speakers, including Craig Nishizaki, Vice President of Test Solutions Group at NVIDIA, Marcelo Ackermann, Professor of XUV Optics Group at the University of Twente, and Andrea Lati, Director of Market Research at TechInsights. In addition to the keynote speakers, Kotaro Hasegawa and Michael Braun from Advantest hosted a technical highlights session, showcasing Advantest’s latest solutions to address new test challenges for various applications such as micro-LED and silicon photonics. Attendees also had the opportunity to engage with Advantest’s R&D engineers during the Technology Kiosk Showcase. Attendees were provided with valuable time to network with others during evening events and scheduled breaks. In addition, a workshop day was held on the Thursday following the event, providing attendees with a hands-on learning experience on advanced RF demodulation, Advantest’s new DC Scale XHC32, and SmarTest 8.

Throughout the event, the VOICE Partner’s Expo took place, providing Advantest’s partners and sponsors the opportunity to meet attendees and showcase their latest products and offerings. This year’s major sponsors were Alliance ATE Consulting Group and ISE Labs/ASE Group.

Awards for the best paper and the best kiosk
Participants used the VOICE app to vote for the best paper and best kiosk awards. This year’s best paper award went to Bernhard Moessler of Infineon and Souvik Dey and Jubal Saji of Advantest for their paper “Enabling Virtual Scope Capability on the V93000.” Brent Bullock of Advantest also won the best paper award with “Early Detection of CRES Degradation on High Current Power Planes.” Makoto Eiki of Sony received an honorable mention for his paper titled “Improving Efficiency and Robustness of Gaussian Process Based Outlier Detection via Ensemble Learning,” as did Jun Zhang, Bowen Yang, and Jiamin Wang of Advantest for their paper “Boost the Performance of the Test Program Development Through Burst and Concurrency on SmarTest 8.” Keith Schaub and Nadine Schill of Advantest won this year’s Best Kiosk award for their kiosk “Advantest Talks Semi.”

Visionary Prize
This year’s Visionary Award was presented to Matt Silverstein, senior manager of audio product and test engineering at Analog Devices. Visionary Award recipients are recognized for their significant and sustained contributions to VOICE over time. Silverstein has supported VOICE by serving on the technical committee for twelve years and contributing to the technical program for the past three years.

VOICE 2025
VOICE 2025 will be held May 12-14 at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit: https://voice.advantest.com/.

About the VOICE Developer Conference
Led by a steering committee of volunteer representatives from Advantest and its customers, VOICE is the premier developer conference for the growing international community of users and strategic partners involved with Advantest’s V93000 and T2000 SoC test platforms and Advantest’s memory testers, handlers and test cell solutions. The conference offers a unique opportunity to help make semiconductor test as efficient and cost-effective as possible. Attendees gain and share valuable insights, build long-term relationships and learn what’s new about Advantest test equipment, handlers and applications. For event updates, follow #VOICE2024 on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.