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CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging silicon photonics (SiPh) solutions, has launched its maiden SiPh (silicon photonics) test facility, believed to be South-East Asia’s first-of-its-kind site. It will offer production and engineering test services accessible to commercial industry players. This testing service is independent of CompoundTek’s foundry services, enabling non-CompoundTek customers the opportunity to leverage the open-testing platform.
Housing SiPh on-wafer testing and cutting-edge equipment, instrument controls and test methodologies, the facility is custom-built by CompoundTek and its partners. The hub caters to the development of solutions that revolutionizes data-transmission capabilities sought after in data centers, interconnectivity, LiDAR, smart sensors and other high-growth applications poised to see explosive volume production over the next 5 years largely driven by advancements in smart city applications.
The test facility, established at CompoundTek’s Jurong East International Business Park office is staffed by a resident SiPh test team, bringing into the technology ecosystem proven talents with international expertise in both manual and automatic silicon photonics testing on either 8” or 12” wafers. The cleanroom is accredited as class 1000/10000 with its equipment designed to achieve fast and reproducible optical coupling, including 6-axis probe-position optimization and polarization alignment; wafer probing for conventional DC and RF electrical testing in the optical domain, and is capable of supporting both O and C-band. The facility will additionally enable the testing of electro-optical components up to 67 GHz and is ideally suited for electro-optical components for 400Gbit/s or higher.
With added on-wafer level automated SiPh Optical/Electrical/RF testing facility, customers will be able to limit packaging costs to good dies (Known-Good-Die) only and avoid module packaging level testing turn-around time losses. This complements CompoundTek’s rapidly growing solutions portfolio designed to drive mass production volume with fast cycle-time. The company will be showcasing its cutting-edge solutions at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition 2020 (OFC 2020), booth 6206, San Diego Convention Centre.
