What Reedholm Systems does

Reedholm Systems is a privately held semiconductor test equipment manufacturer founded in 1983 (originally as Reedholm Instruments) and headquartered in Georgetown, Texas since 1991. The company specializes in DC parametric test systems for semiconductor fabs producing silicon, silicon carbide (SiC), and gallium nitride (GaN) devices, where measurement capabilities spanning microvolts to 10kV and femtoamps to 50A support process control monitoring, wafer acceptance testing, reliability evaluations, and high-voltage power-device characterization. End customers disclosed publicly span analog/mixed-signal producers (Micrel, Elmos), RF specialists (TriQuint Semiconductor), defense/aerospace (Raytheon UK), power-semi suppliers (BCD Semiconductor/Diodes Inc.), and compound-semi fabs (Silanna, Semefab).

The product portfolio follows a platform-plus-modular architecture, anchored by the RI-series parametric test systems (RI-40, RI-70, RI-51/52/53, RI-2kV, RI-EGpro) and proprietary instrumentation modules including the VFIF-16, DMM-16, SCM source/measurement module, CPM-N matrix switch, PAM-16N, and HISMU. RDS 2.0 / WIN 2.0 software provides SQL-based, programming-free test plan creation with backward compatibility across hardware generations; the company cites a 3.9x average throughput improvement over legacy systems, 50% more critical parameters collected per test, and a mean time to failure exceeding three years.

Reedholm generates revenue through hardware sales (test systems and modular instrumentation), software subscriptions (RDS 2.0 / WIN 2.0), service agreements covering advanced exchange, calibration, and applications support, and professional services including custom engineering and integration. Distribution is direct in North America; STAr Technologies covers the Pacific Rim; and E Test Reps coordinates worldwide sales alongside complementary-vendor partnerships with DR YIELD (yield analytics), SURAGUS (eddy current testing), SemiProbe (probe cards), and GE Research. Revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Name

Reedholm Systems

Legal name

Reedholm Systems

Website

https://reedholmsystems.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Reedholm Systems is a privately held Georgetown, Texas-based manufacturer of DC parametric test systems serving semiconductor fabs producing silicon, silicon carbide, and gallium nitride devices, with measurement ranges from microvolts to 10kV and femtoamps to 50A.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Semiconductor Test Equipment

NAICS

Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing (333242), Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (334515), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519)

SIC

Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Test, Probe & Burn-In Equipment (Wafer Sort/Final Test) (HDAHAEAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Test & Measurement Equipment (Oscilloscopes, DAQ, signal analyzers, calibration benches) (IMAGAFAC), Test, Measurement & Calibration Equipment Manufacturing Services (ATE, DAQ, metrology electronics) (IMAGAGAH)

Keywords

• Semiconductor test equipment
• Parametric testing systems
• Wide band gap testing
• Process control monitoring
• Reliability test systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Georgetown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Test Systems: Sale of complete DC parametric test systems including RI-40, RI-70, RI-EG, and 10kV/50A high power systems. Systems include card cage, instruments, switching matrices, and prober control capabilities.
2. Instrumentation Modules: Proprietary modules including VFIF-16, DMM-16, CMM, PAM-N, CPM-N, and SCM. Spare and replacement modules sold separately for system maintenance and expansion.
3. Software Licenses and Upgrades: RDS 2.0 and WIN 2.0 parametric test software licenses. SQL-based software environment eliminating need for internet interface. Legacy software migration services available.
4. Support and Service Agreements: Comprehensive service agreements covering instrument service (advanced exchange, expedite, standard, loaner repair), calibration services, applications help, custom engineering, and system development.
5. Recertified Equipment: Factory refurbished and new modules available through online store. Refurbished modules warranted for 90 days, new modules warranted for one year.
6. Integration Services: Turn-key system configurations including integration of third-party probers, thermal systems, and device interfaces with full characterization and performance verification.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Reedholm Systems designs, manufactures, and sells integrated DC parametric test systems for semiconductor production e-test, including process control monitoring (PCM), wide band gap (SiC/GaN), and reliability test applications. The offering combines proprietary RI-series testers, modular instrumentation (VFIF-16, DMM-16, SCM, matrix modules), and data-driven SQL-based test software (RDS 2.0/WIN 2.0), supported by calibration, applications engineering, and multi-tier service agreements.

Product overview

Reedholm Systems provides an integrated portfolio of DC parametric test systems for semiconductor manufacturing, organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering consists of PCM (Process Control Monitoring) test systems and Wide Band Gap production systems, supported by proprietary software platforms (RDS 2.0/WIN 2.0) that provide data-driven, programming-free parametric testing. Hardware families include RI-series test systems (RI-40, RI-70, RI-51, RI-52, RI-53, RI-2kV, RI-EGpro) supporting measurements from microvolts to 10kV and femtoamps to 50A, alongside modular instrumentation (VFIF-16, DMM-16, SCM, CMM, matrix modules) that customers configure for specific applications. The company also provides reliability test systems for WLR, HCI, and TDDB testing. Service offerings include calibration, custom engineering, and multi-tier support agreements. Reedholm positions itself as a total solution provider with 35 years of test and measurement IP.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RDS 2.0 / WIN 2.0: Data-driven parametric test software environment for automated semiconductor testing with SQL database backend
• RI Series Test Systems
• RI-10kV/50A WBG System

Products and services

• PCM Test System Primary DC parametric test system for semiconductor production e-test, enabling process control monitoring with 100% sampling. Provides average 3.9x throughput improvement over legacy systems, programming-free test plan creation, and collection of 4X to 5X more operational data per week for fab engineering and process control teams.
• Wide Band Gap Production Systems Integrated high power semiconductor test systems for SiC and GaN wafer-level testing with pulse capability to 50A and blocking voltages to 10kV. Features simple rugged probe card interface compatible with Paschen-relationship high-pressure probing, automatic prober control, database management, and crosspoint matrix connections for bipolar, JFET, MOSFET, and high-frequency capacitance measurements.
• Reliability Test Systems Fast wafer level reliability testing systems with failure-mechanism-specific test structures and algorithms. Covers oxide, interconnect, gate soak, and transistor evaluations for both package-level reliability (PLR) and slow WLR stress, including 10kV/50A stress capabilities for power and wide band gap device reliability assessment.
• RDS 2.0 / WIN 2.0 Parametric Test Software Data-driven parametric test software platform using SQL Server database architecture, replacing legacy ASP/Internet Explorer components with Windows 10-compatible application. Enables programming-free test plan creation through standardized test types and graphical displays, with full backward compatibility to legacy Reedholm systems and up to 3.9x throughput improvement.
• RI-Series Parametric Test Systems Complete DC parametric test systems including RI-40 (compact modular), RI-70 (higher capacity), RI-2kV (high voltage 2kV blocking), and RI-EGpro (production-oriented with integrated prober control). Each system includes card cage, instruments, switching matrices, and prober control capabilities.
• Service and Calibration Agreements Comprehensive support service agreements with four tiers (advanced exchange, expedite, standard, and loaner repair) covering DMM-16, VFIF-16, PAM-16/N, CMM, CPM-N and SCM modules. Includes 10% discount on module purchases during active agreement and reduced repair rates for contract customers.
• Custom Engineering Services Custom engineering for instrumentation, test routines, data manipulation, user interfaces, and new/exotic test system development. Applications support offered at $150/hour (contract) to $250/hour (non-contract); development at $200/hour (contract) to $250/hour (non-contract); training classes at $5,000 to $7,500 inclusive of expenses.
• Recertified Test Equipment Factory refurbished instruments, modules, and accessories sold through Reedholm's online store. Refurbished items warranted for 90 days, new modules warranted for one year, providing a lower-cost entry point for fabs expanding test capacity.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3.9x faster average throughput compared to legacy systems (range 2x to 7x)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Texas State University - Piner Research GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2018Formal collaboration effective July 2018 to develop reliability methods and standards for production test of WBG devices (wide band gap) including GaN, SiC, GaN on Si, and other WBG materials. Reedholm installed one of its 10kV/50A WBG Parametric Test Systems at the Piner Research Group facility for process control, die sort measurements, and reliability stress test requirements (HTOL, HTRB, HTGB) for WBG research.
• STAr TechnologiescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 October 2017Joint marketing and support agreement signed October 2017 to offer customers turn-key solutions comprised of test system, prober/handler, and load board/probe card with characterized performance. Combined offerings under Reedholm brand for PCM, wafer level die sort, packaged part testing, and reliability. Regional split: STAr handles Pacific Rim markets while Reedholm maintains North American responsibility. Both parties collaborate on European and other markets.
• SURAGUS GmbHcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSURAGUS GmbH (Dresden, Germany, founded 2010) develops eddy current testing technology for semiconductor, photovoltaic, and advanced materials industries. E Test Reps serves as SURAGUS sales and service partner for in-tool eddy-current metrology in North America. Partnership includes technical scoping, integration support, and after-sales service.
• SemiProbecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSemiProbe (Burlington, Vermont, founded 2006) provides PS4L adaptive probe systems for semiconductor testing. E Test Reps represents SemiProbe products including vacuum probing systems, double-sided probing, and modular probe stations for North American markets.
• DR YIELDcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDR YIELD (Austria) provides YieldWatchDog yield management software for semiconductor manufacturing data analytics. E Test Reps represents DR YIELD products for North American semiconductor manufacturers, providing demonstration, data integration, customization, and license support.
• GE ResearchminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGE Research offers reliability testing services for power semiconductor devices including SiC MOSFET reliability testing. E Test Reps represents GE Research reliability test services for North American customers requiring high temperature, high voltage testing, and failure analysis.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Onto Innovation: Provides inspection, metrology, and test solutions for semiconductor manufacturers including process control tools. Overlaps with Reedholm in fab process control monitoring, with deeper penetration in optical inspection and software analytics.
• Advantest: Dominant ATE supplier focused on memory and logic SoC test, but increasingly active in power and analog parametric test. Competes less directly than Keysight/Keithley in core DC parametric, but overlaps in WBG power device test at scale.
• Cohu: Broad semiconductor test equipment supplier serving analog, mixed-signal, and power device end-markets. Competes with Reedholm in parametric and final test for power semiconductor customers, but with a much broader test handler portfolio.
• Keysight Technologies: Largest incumbent in DC parametric test with the B1500A Semiconductor Device Analyzer. Directly competes with Reedholm on the same fab customer base for process control monitoring and WBG device testing, but at vastly greater scale and with a much broader test & measurement portfolio.
• Tektronix: Parent of Keithley and a broad test & measurement incumbent. Competes with Reedholm across the parametric and WBG test workflow through the Keithley 4200-SCS and complementary oscilloscope/instrument products used in fab characterization.
• NI (formerly National Instruments, now Emerson): Supplies modular instrumentation and PXI-based semiconductor test platforms that compete with Reedholm in parametric and production test. NI has a broad test & measurement portfolio and significant enterprise sales reach.
• Keithley (Tektronix): Maker of the 4200-SCS parametric analyzer, the other dominant incumbent alongside Keysight. Competes head-to-head with Reedholm in fab parametric test and WBG/Silicon carbide characterization, with deep installed base relationships and global service infrastructure.

Direct peers

• FormFactor: Supplies parametric test probers and integrated solutions to fabs worldwide. Overlaps with Reedholm in the wafer-level test workflow, particularly for WBG and power device customers, though FormFactor is more prober-centric while Reedholm is tester-centric.
• SemiProbe: Burlington, Vermont-based supplier of PS4L adaptive probe systems used in wafer-level parametric testing. A channel partner of Reedholm via E Test Reps, but also offers competing integrated probe-and-test solutions for WBG and power device customers.
• STAr Technologies: Hsinchu, Taiwan-based competitor and channel partner. Offers competing WBG and parametric test probe stations and probe cards under the Magic and Virgo/Aries product lines, while also serving as Reedholm's Pacific Rim channel — creating both competitive and partner dynamics in the same geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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