iTest Hi-Rel: The semiconductor time-to-market accelerator for aerospace, defense, and space programs — in affiliation with iTest Inc.
Engineering Reliability for Mission-Critical Systems
About Us
We are a specialized engineering company with independent Hi-Rel IP and deep know-how backed by the economies of scale, production-class ATE infrastructure, and 250+ years of combined team expertise that iTest Inc. brings to every engagement.
iTest Hi-Rel is a Fremont, California-based engineering company, in affiliation with iTest Inc., specializing in the rapid deployment of advanced semiconductor technologies for aerospace, defense, and space. We are engineers first a team built on decades of proprietary IP and application knowledge in high-reliability microelectronics, complex packaging, and mission-critical qualification.
We work with semiconductor developers and system integrators to ensure microelectronics perform reliably under extreme operating conditions, including radiation exposure, thermal stress, and high-frequency environments.
Our engineering capabilities span the complete deployment sequence: package design and substrate engineering, IC assembly and complex packaging, advanced electrical test and characterization, wafer-level test, qualification, radiation testing, and system-level test. Backed by the scale and breadth of iTest Inc.’s commercial test infrastructure, we translate proven commercial deployment experience from AI accelerators to high-performance networking silicon into the rigorous militarization and ruggedization pathways that defense and space programs demand.
The Commercial-to-Military Pathway. Engineered.
The most advanced silicon in the world is being developed for commercial markets AI, advanced networking, high-performance computing. Defense and space programs want it. But between commercial tape-out and mission deployment sits an engineering gap that cannot be closed by testing alone. It requires deep know-how in package design, substrate engineering, complex assembly, and the full qualification and radiation hardening pipeline.
iTest Hi-Rel closes that gap. Our engineering team brings the IP, the methodology, and the program execution discipline supported by iTest Inc.’s production-class ATE capability and commercial deployment track record to take advanced silicon through industrialization, ruggedization, and militarization and deliver it as trusted, qualified hardware. We don’t just test. We engineer the path to mission readiness.
Our Heritage
Our team’s heritage spans the most demanding programs in aerospace and defense CASSINI, MILSTAR, AEHF 1–6, and classified national security initiatives. We have engineered and qualified high-reliability Space and RADHard ASIC solutions supporting satellite communication infrastructure critical to national defense, guiding more than 48 ASIC devices from prototype through final flight qualification and delivery.
That same engineering depth now serves the next frontier: the rapid militarization and space qualification of commercial AI silicon, advanced RF devices, and complex heterogeneous packages. iTest Hi-Rel in affiliation with iTest Inc. applies what has been learned across decades of mission-critical and commercial programs to accelerate the deployment of today’s most advanced technologies into aerospace, defense, and space infrastructure.
