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Discover how traceability strengthens supply chain resilience, minimizes risks, cuts costs, and boosts efficiency.
Learn how Rochester helps preserve legacy systems and addresses the aerospace industry's component obsolescence challenges.
Despite increasing industry acknowledgment that date code restrictions lack an empirical basis, some users of semiconductor components and contract manufacturers still enforce limitations on older products. This study builds on previous research and evaluates SMT components' solderability and board assembly performance after long-term storage.
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Why purchase from fully authorized sources
The alternative to standard COTS devices is authorized product enhancement and manufacturing.
Semiconductor ASICs and standard products are subjected to manufacturing obsolescence, and as such there is a need to create a form, fit, and functionally equivalent device.
The “Rochester Engineering Driven Test Approach” assures that the proper test coverage is implemented for all IC components tested at our corporate test facility, regardless of product functionality, process and technology, or market segment application.
For items that have been in long-term storage, quality and reliability are key concerns. To determine the quality of aged components in real-world applications, Rochester performed an analysis of solderability by using an industry-standard board mount with solder paste and reflow manufacturing process.
Long-term storage represents a viable solution to maintaining a continuous supply of semiconductor components in long-lifecycle applications but how does long-term storage affect performance? Rochester tested components, spanning a variety of package styles, stored for periods of up to 17 years.
Only the Rochester Electronics Semiconductor Lifecycle Solution can provide an absolute guarantee that a replacement semiconductor device will function exactly as the original.
An examination of the anticipated radiation tolerance of CMOS ICs that are replicated by Rochester Electronics relative to the tolerance of the original component.
The closer a design archive is to a successful archive, the longer semiconductor components may live on in systems without forcing re-qualification, extremely difficult redesign, and/or difficult design product replication
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