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Keysight turns semiconductor teaching labs into workflow training

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Keysight turns semiconductor teaching labs into workflow training

Semiconductor education is shifting toward lab-ready workflows and measurement discipline. Keysight’s new university packages bring device test, on-wafer analysis, and photonic IC measurement into structured teaching labs.

IN Brief:

  • Keysight has launched three university lab packages covering foundational device measurement, on-wafer parametric test, and photonic IC characterisation.
  • The packages are built around professional-grade tools and guided lab modules intended to mirror real semiconductor R&D workflows.
  • As semiconductor investment broadens, universities are under pressure to produce graduates who can work with production-relevant measurement methods from the start.

Keysight Technologies has launched three semiconductor teaching lab solutions for universities, pushing a more industry-shaped model of engineering education at a time when semiconductor talent pipelines are under heavier scrutiny.

The new packages cover three distinct levels of learning. Basic Design and Measurement introduces students to structured device measurement and RF design, using tools such as a B2902C precision SMU, Digital Learning Suite software, and ADS. Parametric Test and On-Wafer Measurement steps further into foundry-style practice with a probe station, a B1500A Parameter Analyzer, three DUT units, and seven guided labs covering tasks such as C-V analysis, threshold extraction, low-current characterisation, and pulsed measurements.

The third package, Photonics IC Measurement, extends the same approach into photonic device testing and optical coupling, reflecting the growing overlap between semiconductor process education and integrated photonics development. That is a useful signal in itself: the company is not treating photonics as a niche add-on, but as part of the same lab-to-industry pathway as electrical test and wafer-level characterisation.

The common thread is less about classroom hardware than repeatable workflow training. Universities have been good at teaching semiconductor theory for decades; the more difficult problem has been exposing students to the measurement discipline, software environment, and lab sequencing that define real device development. Keysight has grouped those elements into a more turnkey format, with further portfolio detail available here.

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