Dross consists of tin oxide and lead oxide. These oxides are generated by the high heat associated with soldering....

Today, because of the uncertain future of solvent cleaning, solderpaste vendors are looking at significantly different formulations. ...

As pressure becomes greater to emit less pollutants, the companie at accept and implement an environmentally friendly strategy early on will find a path of least resistance in the future. ...

Most high volume production facilities rely on fast testing of the final soldered assembly. One of the most popular methods used is ...

Dolby* Digital is a high-quality audio compression format widely used in feature films and, more recently, on DVD1. PCs now offer DVD drives, and providing a Dolby Digital decoder in software allows decoding of Dolby Digital to become a baseline......

The MMX� technology is an extension to the Intel Architecture (IA) aimed at boosting the performance of multimedia applications. This technology is the most significant IA extension since the introduction of the Intel386� microprocessor. ...

Media (video, audio, graphics, communication) applications present a unique opportunity for performance boost via use of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) techniques. ...

A novel programmable element has been developed and evaluated for state of the art CMOS processes. This element is based on agglomeration of the Ti-silicide layer on top of poly fuses. ...

This paper will describe practical aspects of a redundancy implementation on a high-volume cache memory product....

This paper describes a model developed to calculate the number of redundant good die per wafer. ...