Camtek creates and sells technologically
advanced, cost-effective software-intensive products. They used AQtime to debug
and improve the performance of their PVS verification station.
Overview
Camtek's PVS is an
efficient and intelligent verification station with a space saving footprint. Combined
with Camtek's Pegasus proven detection capabilities, it defines a new standard in
yield assurance for CSP and BGA substrate production. PVS operation is based on
a smart, computer-guided, process that reduces verification time.
Solution
"We needed a tool that could pinpoint bottlenecks in one of our products, the PVS
verification station" says Shraga Broyer from Camtek. AQTime analyzed our software
smoothly and found some bottlenecks and helped optimizing the station performance."
Camtek strives constantly to further increase the throughput and productivity of
their systems. AQTime helps them reduce development cycle times and meet their customer's
needs.
In addition, Camtek runs the profiler when testing new computers for their complex
software. "Again, the detailed reports make it easy to use it as a benchmark for
our own software. AQTime helped us choose a PC for our software to run on. By running
benchmark tests and comparing the timing reports produced by AQTime, we saw which
computer had the best performance".
Hours to Minutes
While profiling PVS with AQtime, Camtek discovered a routine that caused a performance
bottleneck and further research showed that the culprit was using a certain third
party "load" function. They replaced it and it made all the difference. "If I had
to find the bottleneck by hand, including additional compilations, it would have
taken hours. With AQtime it only took minutes."
"AQtime pinpoints problematic routines extremely fast. We are able to see immediately
which routines take the longest time to run."
About Camtek
Camtek designs, develops, manufactures and
markets technologically advanced, cost-effective systems and related software products
that are used to enhance processes and yields. Camtek provides intelligent optical
inspection systems to the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Packaging, High-Density
Interconnect Substrates (HDI-S), and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) industries. Camtek
addresses the specific needs of each industry with dedicated solutions, based on
a common core of intelligent imaging technologies.
About AQtime
AQtime is a performance profiler and memory
debugger engineered to give developers unparalleled insight into all aspects of
the performance of their applications. AQtime provides a single solution for detecting
performance bottlenecks and memory leaks within managed, unmanaged and mixed-code
applications. AQtime supports Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, C++, VB, Borland
Delphi, Borland C++, and more.
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