K2000 is tooling for circular blade depanelizers. Has an XY table to hold panels in place as they are being singulated. One variation, built with a two-position tooling plate, is designed for singulating SIMM cards. Allows 5 Simm cards with carrier strips to be fixed in place on tooling pins (2 per card). After removal of the first holding strip, the entire set is moved into position for cutting the other carrier strip. Standard modular tooling guides the operator to align panels onto the linear blade. This allows skip scored panels to be placed and held while the circular blade travels across the score line.

FKN Systek, www.Fknsystek.com

GigaSync high-speed printed circuit laminate/prepreg material reportedly eliminates skew issues in high-speed designs that use differential pairs to create a balanced transmission system able to carry differential signals across a printed circuit board. Reduces weave-induced skew on high-speed designs from 25Gb/s up to 100Gb/s as tested on a Signal Integrity test vehicle. Offers thermal performance. Comes with reverse-treated foil and VLP-2, low profile copper with 2µm surface roughness copper foil.

Isola Group, www.isola-group.com

MR252/MR252-M model is part of the Micro Prober family of high-speed open and short circuit testers for flexible and rigid circuit boards. Reportedly reduces test takt time; cuts footprint by about 30%. Sets upper limit to the size of target circuit boards. MR252-M can do two processes in parallel – continuity/insulation tests and marking of test results on the target boards – by putting on a separate stage a mechanism that marks test results on the circuit board. High-speed test capable of 500,000 to one million contacts per month. High-precision positioning with an accuracy of 5 µm plus or minus. Recognizes images captured with a CCD camera built in each testing head mounted on a moving arm; corrects positioning of the testing jig on X, Y and theta (tilt) axes. Test circuit unit is capable of four-terminal sensing.

Yamaha Fine Technologies Co, http://www.yamaha.co.jp/finetech/english/

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