Solutions for Telecommunications and High-tech electronics

Technical Expertise for Telecommunications and Electronics Manufacturing

With years of experience in telecommunications and electronics testing, Averna has developed comprehensive offerings that target optics, wireless and RF, and
high-tech electronics.

Optics

Optics manufacturers must respond quickly to shifting trends in order to remain viable. New advancements in fiber-to-home and fiber-to-desktop heighten the expectations placed on optics providers. A capacity-hungry marketplace, the explosion in bandwidth-intensive services, and continually retooled metropolitan and regional networks call for optics components that are increasingly complex. These components must be fully qualified before they are placed into assembled systems.

Averna’s Burn-In, Life Test, and Qualification systems provide manufacturers with a way to meet these demands while reducing both test time and cost. Modular, tightly-controlled temperature environments can perform optical component testing on a continuous basis, or at the end of the burn-in period. With high device counts in compact chambers, you will be able to increase throughput and make your test activities more efficient. Devices can be tested when either packaged or in chip-on-carrier form.

Typical applications:

  • Laser diodes
  • Amplifiers
  • Modulators
  • Filters
  • Switches
  • Fibre and connectors

Wireless and RF

Averna engineers are experts in RF, microwave, and infrared signals, offering expertise throughout the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) lifecycle, from architecture and design to support and maintenance. Averna’s custom, build-to-print test stations are compact, portable, and ruggedized for heavy-duty operation in high-volume environments. They are designed to shield RF signals from interference, ensuring accurate and repeatable testing.

These solutions play into Averna’s comprehensive strategy to implement industry best practices for all of your wireless and RF test activities, throughout the product lifecycle.

Typical applications:

  • Cellular telephones
  • Handheld communication devices
  • Personal digital assistants (PDAs)
  • Radio transmitters and receivers
  • Satellite television devices
  • Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices
  • Base stations
  • Wireless networks

High-tech electronic devices

High-tech electronics OEMs bear the brunt of the technological race towards developing more compact products in record time. Electronic Control Units (ECU) and other embedded systems continue to grow in complexity as they automate more elaborate systems and respond to PC advancements. This leads to greater frequency in test station updates, and creates a need for better communication with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) as well as heightened visibility and control over their activities.

Averna helps you overcome these challenges by starting test engineering in the design phase of the product lifecycle. When clients adopt intelligent, database-driven tools such as Proligent™, The Test Engineering Platform™, they are able to create a unified test architecture from the outset, centralize all test information, automate and control all test processes, and gain instant visibility over CM test activities. They will catch product defects early, launch stable products on time, and meet their time-to-market commitments.