SPEA (company)
SPEA is an Italian company that designs and manufactures Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for testing microchips and electronic boards.
The Company, founded in 1976 by Luciano Bonaria, as Sistemi Per l'Elettronica e l'Automazione, who still is its President, today employs about 450 people, distributed among the Italian headquarters in Volpiano (Turin) and 24 offices in the worldwide markets, such as USA, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Israel, Singapore, Japan, Korea, China and India.
The main application fields for SPEA's equipment are the following:
- EMS
- Industry
- Consumer
- Automotive
- Telecommunications
- Aerospace
- Defence
In all these fields, SPEA's equipment are used to monitor electronic devices so that they operate without interruption.
ATE for Electronics Industry
Testers for electronic boards are divided into:
- "Bed of nails" testers, based on the concept of a multi-core architecture for true parallel test, to enhance productivity
- Flying probe testers, that are able to test the boards when the density of components on the boards is very high (so, components cannot be contacted by using a bed-of-nails test system). The high speed of the latest flying probe makes them suitable also for production volumes.
ATE and Automation for Semiconductor Industry
The range of SPEA semiconductor equipment includes:
- Mixed Signal semiconductor tester platform
- Integrated test cells (providing test, automated handling, and the required mechanical stimulus) for MEMS, smart card modules, power modules
- Smart card modules, UHF &RFID tester
- Small Value Measurements tester
- Reel to Reel device handler
- Pick and Place handler