industry electronics founded 1976 headquarters norwood ma usa products automatic test equipment number of employees 436 website www.ltx.com ltx is a semiconductor automatic test equipment ate vendor founded in 1976 and headquartered in norwood ma greater boston area . the focus of the company is the design and development of ate for the semiconductor marketplace but it distinguished itself in the early days as a provider of functional and parametric testers for discrete component rf products . today ltx offers test platforms capable of testing mixed signal analog & digital devices . history edit this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2007 learn how and when to remove this template message ltx was founded by graham miller roger blethen et al. all of the founders left nearby competitor teradyne . although never verified corporate lore holds that the name ltx was an abbreviation for the clarion call of its founders leave teradyne by christmas xmas or possibly left teradyne at christmas . others believe that ltx stands for linear test excellence linear test experts or is simply an abbreviation of the word electronics . on june 22 2008 ltx signed a merger agreement with one of its principal competitors credence systems corporation . ltx ceo and president david tacelli became ceo of merged company . 1 on august 29 2008 ltx and credence systems corporation completed a merger to form ltx credence corporation . 2 external links edit company homepage references edit credence and ltx sign merger agreement ltx and credence complete merger to form ltx credence this technology article about a corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ltx & oldid 673612772 categories equipment semiconductor companiestechnological company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2007all articles needing additional referencesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 july 2015 at 10 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view