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Military jet flying through clouds Aerospace, Space & Defense

34-layer Class 3 board

100% of 93 boards passed final inspection and test

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  1. Military jet flying through clouds 01
    Aerospace, Space & Defense

    A 34-layer, 3,515-component board built and inspected to IPC Class 3

    93 production boards combining 0201 passives, BGAs, mixed SAC/SnPb metallurgy and Class 3 through-hole fill on a thick stackup. 100% passed final inspection and test.

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  2. Technician in a cleanroom suit operating semiconductor equipment under yellow light 02
    Semiconductor Equipment

    Zynq control board for a semiconductor laser generator: catching a bad consigned lot before it reached the fab

    Repeat production of a 16-layer Zynq-7000 control board for wafer fab equipment. Flying probe caught a bad lot of customer-supplied Ethernet PHYs that visual inspection and AOI can't see.

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  3. Close-up of a silicon wafer with iridescent microchip dies 03
    Semiconductor Equipment

    Heavy-copper EMI filter and soft-start board for a 30–60 kW plasma generator

    6 oz copper on a board thicker than 0.100 in, with large through-hole filter parts, ion chromatography cleanliness and anti-corona coating for high-voltage service. 100+ units in repeat production.

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  4. Large satellite dish antenna under a blue sky 04
    Aerospace, Space & Defense

    28-layer mixed RF and digital antenna command-and-control board: 300,000 Class 3 placements in 3 weeks

    100 defense boards with blind and buried vias, controlled impedance, SMA launches and RF shield cans, about 3,000 components each, built to IPC Class 3 under ITAR controls and delivered 3 weeks from full kit.

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  5. Passenger train in motion at dusk, light trails along the track 05
    Autonomous Vehicles & Transportation

    Designed and built by BSU: potted passenger restraint sensor modules for transport systems

    A safety-critical sensor module that tells a monorail's control system a passenger restraint is latched. BSU designed the PCB, the cable assembly and the potting, and functionally tests every module.

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