Accelerate AMD EPYC™ and Ryzen™ Embedded processors’ power-delivery validation with platform-specific interposers, Pactiv-R test systems and expert Test-as-a-Service support.
Go to the AMD TIP (Technical Information Portal) and download the ProGrAnalog drawing and STEP model for your platform. Check your board’s keep-outs and component heights around the processor, so the interposer, M-M connector and Pactiv-R head fit.
Send ProGrAnalog a purchase order for the test, any BGA interposers, and the reflow if we do it. For TaaS, ProGrAnalog supplies the socketed interposers (SP7) and the M-M connector.
Prepare and ship the board
Your board takes one of these three routes, depending on the package and who does the reflow.
A · Socketed · SP7
No reflow needed
You ship the board to our lab.
The interposer seats in the socket — no soldering. ProGrAnalog supplies it.
OR
B · BGA · FL1, FP8, FP11
ProGrAnalog reflows
You ship the board to our lab.
We reflow the interposer onto it.
OR
C · BGA · FL1, FP8, FP11
You reflow
Buy the interposer in advance.
Reflow it onto your board during your standard manufacturing build.
Ship the board to our lab.
Ship to: ProGrAnalog, Portland, Oregon — from any region.
Test and report
Your board is tested on Pactiv-R, in its own chassis. You receive the AMD format report and the board is returned.
The report is written during the session: pass or fail for every rail, dynamic and static analysis, and the load line. You submit it to AMD. How the test works
Can the test wait until mid-January 2027?
Where it is tested
How it is ordered
No — test now
ProGrAnalog, Portland, Oregon (boards ship from any region)
The test and any BGA interposers ordered from ProGrAnalog
Yes — from mid-January 2027
Chroma or Forenext lab in Taiwan or Mainland China
The test from ProGrAnalog; BGA interposers from ProGrAnalog, or from Chroma or Forenext once they stock them
Europe
ProGrAnalog Europe (Netherlands / UK — location TBC)
The test from ProGrAnalog
Boards from Europe ship to Portland until a European facility opens.
How the test works
What happens at the lab, from interposer to report.
1 Fit the interposer
BGA packages (FL1, FP8, FP11): the interposer is reflowed onto the board in place of the processor. LGA sockets (SP7): the interposer seats in the socket, no soldering.
2 Connect Pactiv-R
The Pactiv-R head mates to the interposer through the M-M connector. The interposer’s ID memory tells the head which processor it is.
3 Run the test
The board runs in its own chassis. Pactiv-R applies static and transient loads to each supply rail at the processor pins, with remote sense on every rail.
4 Generate the report
The system writes the AMD format report during the session: pass or fail for every rail, dynamic and static analysis, load line. The customer submits it to AMD.
Summary and test settings
Dynamic analysis
Static analysis
Advancing AMD x86 Embedded power testing with Pactiv-R
A complete platform support path covering high-performance socketed processors, BGA package access and outsourced power-delivery testing.
Platform-specific interposers and Test-as-a-Service on Pactiv-R, designed to quickly evaluate, characterize and validate power-delivery schemes for AMD EPYC™ and Ryzen™ Embedded processors.