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Sensor Products Inc. introduces Pressurex Zero, a tactile sensor film that indicates pressure. The flexible film is used in a number of applications, including circuit board laminates and heat sinks.

It is available in thin plastic sheets of 4 mils or 8 mils and comes in eight pressure ranges from 7.2 PSI to 28 PSI. The film is placed between contacting and mating surfaces to obtain the contact surface pressure.

The film changes color according to the amount of pressure applied, and a measurement is obtained by matching the color against a correlation chart. Flexible enough to conform to various spaces, the film can measure pressures up to 43,200 PSI.

www.sensorprod.com

EMA Design Automation introduces TimingDesigner v9.1. The standard tool for interface timing design now has the ability to generate SDC timing constraints from timing diagrams. Users are able to visually define requirements and generate SDC to drive, place and route.

The SDC support also adds the ability to interface with FPGA and ASIC design flows. With focus on the Altera FPGA, graphical timing analysis features enable the development of SDC timing constraints for Altera devices. General productivity enhancements and updates are included.

www.ema-eda.com

Rogers Corporation introduces RO2808, a high-frequency laminate. The ceramic-filled PTFE material provides stability and high-frequency performance of LTCC. It has a dielectric constant of 7.6 and a low loss tangent of 0.002 or less. The laminate comes in various thicknesses up to 1 mil. RO2808 has a high moisture resistance, reliability and high-frequency performance.

www.rogerscorp.com

LPKF Protomat circuit board plotters for in-house production. The prototyping equipment makes several different boards including single-layer, multilayer, power and RF.

The plotters allow fabrication to stay in-house, thus reducing time-to-market for new designs. The equipment can produce, test, improve and produce boards up to several times a day, and it satisfies numerous applications, such as digital-, high power- and RF-circuits. Options include masking, stencil printing and pick-and-place.

LPKF Laser & Electronics, www.lpkf.com

Cinch Connectors introduces an AMC compression connector for standard ATCA platform blade. The mezzanine connector meets or exceeds the newest PICMG ATCA specifications.

The connector has one-piece stamped contacts that allow for seamless carrier board to mezzanine card paths. The captured individual contacts give a low insertion force and provide support for wide board planarities and multiple card insertions.

The compressed technology allows for simplified trace routing, as well as minimizing stub-effects and reflections. The contact uses a unique plating to lessen abrasions to the mezzanine card contacts as well.

www.cinch.com

Matrix Metrologies, Inc. introduces the Benchtop XRF. The XRF tools offer compliance testing and monitoring for circuit board and packaging electronics, as well as plating industries. The system performs nondestructive measurements of RoHS and WEEE prohibitive metals: lead, mercury, chromium, bromine and cadmium.

The system can also perform lead content quantification for military and aerospace demands that require 2% to 5% minimum lead content. Tool audit and measurement integrity management is offered through certified reference standards. Standard circuit and packaging applications can be measured, including Au/Ni/Cu and gold electro less nickel stacks.

XRF spectrometers are capable of being configured with gas-proportional, Si-PIN or silicon-drift type detectors and primary beam filtration for quick, non-destructive RoHS lead-free verification. Lead sensitivity and measurement confidence is provided at the 1000-ppm action level.

www.matrixmetrologies.com