New Virtual Practical Dummy Components Catalog Now Available

LOS ALAMITOS, CA - March 23, 2009 � The new Practical Components catalog is designed to help engineers quickly find the key products needed to qualify their technology, train and grow their businesses. This new catalog will be of special interest to anyone involved in PCB assembly, training, soldering and surface mount technology.

According to Practical President Kevin Laphen, �At http://www.PracticalComponents.com our new free virtual catalog is organized by package type/category with each product accompanied by drawings, description, part number with both lead-free and tin-lead availability and formulations and daisy chain patterns.

In an effort to make our catalog more green (carbon neutral), more widely and universally accessable and with more current and accurate content, we have created a new virtual catalog with a page flip format.

Practical believes in lessening the environmental impact of printing. While there will always be a need for printed publications, we want to cut out the unnecessary use of trees and energy to help reduce our carbon footprint. It is not difficult to appreciate the environmental benefits when we publish this way.�

Users will benefit by being able to:

• View online or offline.

• Save the complete catalog to disk.

• Send the complete catalog or as little as a single page to a colleague.

• Add personal sticky notes, add bookmarks and print.

In the catalog, critical product additions include new body sizes of the Amkor� PoP (package on package) as well as the added ability to make triple PoP stacks. New FusionQuad� components are on board with test boards for them as well as the PoP package.

Practical also has added a new selection of Pac Tech Flip Chips and test kits, and an array of other new test boards and training kits. Ready-to-run CircuitCAM project files (CPFs), Gerber and X, Y, theta data also is available at no extra charge on the Web site for machine-ready boards plus other technical data, drawings and helpful design hints.

About Practical Components

Practical Components is a team of dedicated electronics industry professionals offering value pricing, on-time deliver, and superior service to customers. The Practical Components team is ready to provide project assistance in the areas of technical component knowledge, drawings, component land patterns and PCB practice kits.

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