Austin, TX.- March 30, 2016- With the increased use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components requiring a higher level of upscreening and qualification, Criteria Labs and Nanolab Technologies are partnering to promote turn-key PEM upscreening services, with a focus on copper wire bonded devices. Built on decades of experience and world-class capabilities, the two companies complement each other seamlessly to perform this work for their mutual customers.

Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits (PEMs) continue to play a growing role in Aerospace and Defense applications, primarily due to availability and lower cost. More recently, the shift from gold wire bonded PEMs to copper wire bonded PEMs has created greater uncertainty for Aerospace and Defense Integrators, mostly due to mechanical reliability issues (cracked die, wire lift, delamination, and corrosion) and manufacturing process control. Integrators are now forced to increase their upscreening requirements and frequency to ensure devices can be used in non-commercial environments with confidence.

Criteria Labs Inc. is a Back-End Semiconductor Services company with experience in device upscreening, device qualification, characterization, and package assembly with offices in Austin, TX. Criteria Labs tests existing components for the purpose of upgrading them to higher reliability specifications and has extensive experience upscreening microcircuits, hybrids, resistors, capacitors, inductors, relays, crystals, discrete transistors and diodes to customers Source Control Drawing (SCD) specifications, and Criteria Labs performs testing to comply with military performance specifications prescribed in MIL-PRF (-27, -123, -19500, -38524, -38535, -39007, -49465, -55310, -55342 and -55365) and NASA, EEE-INST-002.

Nanolab Technologies Inc. is an Analytical Services company with experience in advanced electron microscopy and imaging, materials characterization, surface chemical analysis, electrical failure analysis and more. Nanolab Technologies has offices in Milpitas, CA and Dallas, TX. Nanolab Technologies provides these services to Semiconductor, Electronics, Defense, Advanced Packaging, and other High Tech industries. Specific technologies used in conjunction with device upscreening are laser ablation, x-ray imaging, scanning electron and energy dispersive microscopy, and de-capsulation and cross-sectioning.

About Criteria Labs
Criteria Labs Inc. is an RF Space and Semiconductor Services company with offices in Austin, TX and Penrose, CO. Criteria Labs can deliver eutectic die attachments, die to shim attachments, chip and wire assemblies, ceramic space qualified packaging, upscreening, RF device screening, reliability, and qualification testing solutions. Criteria Labs performs testing to comply with space and military performance specifications prescribed in MIL-PRF (-27, -123, -19500, -38524, -38535, -39007, -49465, -55310, -55342 and -55365) and NASA, EEE-INST-002.)

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Criteria Labs
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