
Speedprint Announces Sales and Support for the Carolinas and Virginia iTECH provides technology solutions for electronics PCB assembly. Company Owner and Co-Founder Larry Coole has more than 10 years of experience in the industry and is an active member of the Carolinas SMT Chapter and said, “I am excited to be working with Speedprint and to be able to offer a high-quality printing machine loaded with features at prices that my customer base can appreciate. Poll Finds Solder Finish, BGA Components and Reflow Soldering Most Challenging for Industry Engineers More than 350 engineers who attended last week’s IPC webinar, Soldering and Assembly Defects, were polled on their biggest headaches with printed boards, PCB components and PCB assembly process failures. Meet ACD at the SMTA Houston Expo and Tech Forum in Texas ACD, a leading supplier to the electronics industry, will highlight its test capabilities at the upcoming SMTA Houston Expo and Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, February 9, 2012, from 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at the Stafford Centre, in Stafford, TX. As part of the company’s comprehensive service offering, ACD provides flying probe, boundary scan and functional test capabilities.
Fujitsu Semiconductor Expands Use of Calibre for Advanced IC Physical Verification and Design for Manufacturing Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited has expanded its use of the Calibre® platform, incorporating the latest Calibre physical verification and design for manufacturing (DFM) capabilities in its design enabling flow for all Fujitsu Semiconductor projects, including its most advanced analog and digital designs. OK International Selects Representative for Ohio and Western Pennsylvania BarTron Inc. is a sales firm that has been supporting the electronics and hi-tech Industries in the Great Lakes region since 1990. Kris Evans brings more than a decade of experience in the PCB/electronics assembly industry.

Tanaka Precious Metals Develops World's First Ruthenium Material Able to Form a Film Up to Six Times the Normal Depth for DRAM Capacitor Electrodes Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (*1) (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) announced that it had succeeded in the joint development of ruthenium material able to form a film up to six times the normal depth for capacitor electrodes used in semiconductor memory DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) with Professor Seiji Ogo of the Graduate School of Engineering Department of Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University. New Boundary Scan hardware from GOEPEL electronic compatible with MAC Panel SCOUT GOEPEL electronic introduced PXI 1149/DAK, a mass interconnect interface within the frame of the technologically leading JTAG/Boundary Scan hardware platform SCANFLEX®. The new option for the SFX/PXI1149/Cx controller are compatible with SCOUT, the mass interconnect system from MAC Panel. Using this option, the customer can now easily combine JTAG/Boundary Scan with the PXI connectivity solution from MAC Panel. Practical Components Adds Test Board for 0.3 mm Pitch Dummy CVBGA Test Vehicle Practical Components introduces a test board for its dummy (mechanical sample) version of Amkor’s cutting-edge 0.3 mm pitch CVBGA. Amkor’s new semiconductor device is a wafer-scale package in a miniature package, which is suitable for installation in surface mount technology (SMT). Amkor’s ChipArray® range of packages consists of laminate-based ball grid array (BGA) packages that are compatible with established SMT mounting processes. New Electrically Conductive, Silver Filled Adhesive/Sealant is USP Class VI Approved Developed for rigorous bonding and sealing in demanding manufacturing applications, Master Bond EP3HTSMED epoxy system features a rapid cure schedule and a tensile shear strength exceeding 1,000 psi. It is 100% reactive and fully meets USP Class VI requirements for medical applications.
Ascentech LLC/GEN3 Systems Ltd Will Intro First Large-format Ionic Cleanliness Tester at IPC/Apex 2012 Ascentech LLC, the North American distributor for GEN3 Systems Ltd., will introduce and exhibit Gen3’s the new CM – Series Large-Format Ionic Cleanliness Test System, the first of its kind, at IPC/APEX 2012 in San Diego, California, February 28 – March 1, 2012, in Booth #617. |