General Radio Company (later, GenRad) was a broad-line manufacturer of electronic test equipment. In the 1950s it became a major player in the automatic test equipment (ATE) business, manufacturing a line of testers for assembled printed circuit boards. It also produced extensive lines of electrical component measuring equipment, sound and vibration measurement and RLC standards. Primarily because of its line of ATE equipment, the company was eventually acquired by Teradyne in 2001. In 1991, QuadTech, Inc. was founded as spinoff of GenRad's Instrumentation Division. Today, QuadTech is a leading provider of Hipot testers, LCR meters, Cable testers and Testing Automation Software.