Cascade Microtech's Grypper Selected as a 2008 Best Product.Gryphics' BGA (Ball Grid Array) A popular surface mount chip package that uses a grid of solder balls as its connectors. Available in plastic and ceramic varieties, BGA is noted for its compact size, high lead count and low inductance, which allows lower voltages to be used. Test Socket Wins Esteemed Award from Semiconductor International Magazine BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Cascade Microtech (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CSCD CSCD Community Supervision & Corrections Department (Harris County, Texas) CSCD Cascade & Columbia River Railroad CSCD CTAS Software Change Document CSCD Coupling-Strength-Control Defect ) today announced that its Grypper BGA test socket has been selected as a winner of Semiconductor International's 2008 Best Product Award. The awards were distributed at a special ceremony on July 16th during the SEMICON SEMICON Semiconductors Equipment and Material International Conference West conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The device-sized Grypper socket is ideal for mobile applications. This high performance, low cost, fine pitch socket tests 0.4mm and 0.5mm pitch devices where the PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. (printed circuit board) holes for external fasteners and additional hardware cannot be accommodated. The Editors' Choice Best Product Awards is an annual contest hosted by Semiconductor International to find and reward the products created by companies that deliver the level of excellence needed to succeed in the semiconductor industry today. "It is an honor to be recognized by industry leading editors for our product innovation," said Cascade Microtech CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Geoff Wild. "This award reinforces our product line strategy to deliver solutions that solve our customers' toughest test and measurement problems." About the Grypper BGA Test Socket Gryphics Product Group, a part of the Production Products Division of Cascade Microtech, introduced their new Grypper BGA test socket in January 2007. The socket utilizes Gryphics' advanced manufacturing and contact technologies to achieve a very fine pitch with low inductance and low insertion loss The amount of loss attributed to a particular device being used in (inserted into) the system. For example, a circuit added to filter out unwanted frequencies may reduce the output current by some amount. See injection loss. beyond 15 GHz. The unique contact design provides excellent mechanical and electrical performance, with oxide-penetrating actions to achieve stable contact resistance for varying solder compositions. This provides excellent signal fidelity for today's high Today's High The intra-day high trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the highest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is higher than the closing price. See also: Today's Low frequency applications such as advanced high-speed serial buses and wireless RF interfaces. The Grypper socket is uniquely suited for chips designed for mobile and consumer applications, where fine-pitch BGA devices can be socketed right on the actual production or evaluation RF circuit board without any additional PCB area overhead. About Semiconductor International Founded over 25 years ago, Semiconductor International is the leading technical publication covering the global semiconductor industry. SI has the largest circulation of qualified buyers in semiconductor fabs and foundries, features the industry's largest and most experienced full-time technical editorial staff, and carries more pages of editorial and advertising than any other industry publication. Information about SI can be found on the Web at www.semiconductor.net. About Cascade Microtech Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCD) is a worldwide leader in the precise electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures. For technology businesses and scientific institutions that need to evaluate small structures, Cascade Microtech delivers access to, and extraction of, electrical data from wafers, integrated circuits (ICs), IC packages, circuit boards and modules, MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. , biological structures, electro-optic devices and more. Cascade Microtech's leading-edge semiconductor production test products include unique probe cards and test sockets that reduce manufacturing costs of high-speed and high-density semiconductor chips. Information about Cascade Microtech can be found on the Web at www.cascademicrotech.com |
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