Simtek offers lead-free nvSRAM packaging.Simtek Simtek (Simulation Technology) was an F1 car constructor and racing team, founded in 1989 by Max Mosley and Nick Wirth as a Formula One technical consultancy firm. It originally was involved in many areas of Formula One, including wind tunnel construction and chassis building for Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory ), a developer of next-generation nonvolatile memory See non-volatile memory. products, announced recently its lead-free package offerings. Simtek now supplies lead-free packages for its entire family of nonvolatile Static RAM A fast memory technology that requires power to hold its content. Static RAM (SRAM, S-RAM) is used for high-speed registers, caches and relatively small memory banks such as a frame buffer on a display adapter. (nvSRAM) products, complying with the growing worldwide need for an environment-friendly alternative to lead-based packages. "Simtek can support system manufacturers with a complete family of lead-free epoxy epoxy Any of a class of thermosetting polymers, polyethers built up from monomers with an ether group that takes the form of a three-membered epoxide ring. The familiar two-part epoxy adhesives consist of a resin with epoxide rings at the ends of its molecules and a curing packages," said Simtek's Director of Quality Assurance, Brian Stephens. "This requirement is growing rapidly in Japan and Europe, and we expect demand to spread world-wide over the next couple of years." Simtek currently offers surface-mount and through-hole lead-free packages for its 4 Kbit through 256 Kbit nvSRAM products. The Company is also prepared to offer lead-free packages for its new 1 Mbit product family including traditional 32 pin packages and the new, smaller 48 pin surface mount package that supports additional, innovative functionality designed into the 1 Mbit architecture. |
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