PDF Solutions– Characterization Vehicle® (CV®) electrical test chip infrastructure provides the core modeling capabilities, and is used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. Proprietary Template layout patterns provide optimum area, performance, and manufacturability for designing IC products. The proprietary Exensio solution for YieldAware FDC enables world-class variability control in manufacturing, in part by leveraging PDF Solutions– industry-leading dataPOWER® yield management system (YMS) and mæstria® fault detection and classification (FDC) software. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. For the Company–s latest news and information, visit.