Centurion Specialty Chemicals has released Ristoff C-8, an alkaline solder mask stripper. According to the company, the product removes fully cured liquid photoimageable and UV screen printable solder masks from PCBs, leaving the surface ready to be reprocessed without the need for any secondary treatment like scrubbing or power washing.

Ristoff C-8 works on a variety of commonly used solder mask materials, including; Coates Imagecure Range, Probimer 77, Electra Carapace, Taiyo PSR Series, Tamura DSR Series and Lackwerke Peters Elpemer. 

C-8 is supplied as a concentrate, and is diluted with water before use.

www.centurionchemicals.com

FPGA Planner System from Cadence Design Systems Inc. is a scalable co-design solution for designing FPGAs onto PCB systems. The FPGA Planner System (for OrCAD and Allegro) was developed by Taray Inc. and is available to Cadence customers through an exclusive OEM licensing agreement.

According to Cadence, the FPGA System Planner shortens the time it takes to integrate FPGAs on a PCB, enhances FPGA performance through the optimal utilization of FPGA resources and can reduce PCB manufacturing costs through a reduction in the number of PCB layers required to route dense, complex, large pin-count FPGAs.


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