Cascade Co-Founders Win Southwest Test Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award

Beaverton, OR -- Cascade Microtech announced that Eric Strid and Reed Gleason, co-founders of Cascade Microtech, have received the Southwest Test Workshop (SWTW) Lifetime Achievement Award for more than 25 years of technical contributions to the field of radio frequency wafer level measurements, including the development of the Pyramid probe, a production probe card technology that enables at-speed production tests on semiconductor and related devices.

Strid and Gleason were recognized at SWTW 2006, a research forum sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society that focuses on all the aspects associated with microelectronic wafer and die level testing. The annual event was held in San Diego, California on June 11-14, 2006.

"I'm honored that we have been selected for this lifetime achievement award, though I feel like we still have another lifetime worth of ideas to implement," said Eric Strid, CEO, Cascade Microtech. "As bandwidths rise and speeds of computing and communications increase the industry has more opportunities than ever to provide new and innovative solutions."

Together Strid and Gleason invented the world's first 18 GHz RF probe in 1984. It has since become an industry standard for production probing technology and is used to measure chips for wireless local area networks (LAN), Bluetooth, and other wireless technologies. The business partners also pioneered a unique probe card technology called the Pyramid probe, which enables high performance, high speed and density wafer level measurements for production testing and probing.

"Teamwork has always been critical to us," said Reed Gleason, vice president, Advanced Development, Cascade Microtech. "Eric and I will often brainstorm and build on each other's ideas, testing and challenging each other until we come up with a winner."

SOURCE: Cascade Microtech, Inc.