The RoHS Reference Center, from Electronic Design, is designed to provide electronic design engineers with lead free information they need to specify or
purchase lead free electronic components in compliance with the Restrictions on Hazardous Substances directive - commonly known as the lead-free directive. The substances
covered by the RoHS Directive are scientifically well researched and evaluated
and have been subject to different measures both at community and at national level. Member States shall ensure that, from 1 July 2006, new electrical and electronic
equipment put on the market does not contain lead ("lead free"), mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).
WHAT'S NEW
Your Next Environmental Design Challenge? Eco-Design
Much of the industry is still focused on becoming RoHS-compliant by July 1, 2006, but it's not just the government that is calling for environmentally conscious products. How companies are stepping up their Eco-Design programs to conform to the new regulations and meet the growing demand for greener goods.
Archived Web Seminar: RoHS/WEEE -- The Manager's Role, Part II
Is the industry ready to comply with the RoHS and WEEE directives? Several surveys suggest it is not. While there's still a great deal of work to be done on the technical side, corporate-level and engineering managers are still wrestling with cost, communications, and supply-chain issues that come with meeting the RoHS requirements. Join us for our second Web seminar that looks at the manager's role in the transition to RoHS compliance. We will identify and explore the decisions that must be made by industry managers. View today!
The European Union (EU) is about to restrict the use of environmentally hazardous materials in electronic components and systems.
Under the EU's Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, literally hundreds of thousands of products currently produced and marketed
by industry companies could become obsolete, forcing semiconductor and other electronics manufacturers to determine what products they will have
to re-design to remove certain toxic materials. Companies not in compliance would not be able to sell their products into EU countries.
Example Question: Can you identify at least three of the six substances specified in the RoHS directive from this list of materials (check three)?
How much do you know about the EU's RoHS? One way to find out is to take Electronic Design's pop quiz on this extremely important development for the
global electronics industry.
Electronic Design's Guide To New International Environmental Laws
New Hazardous Materials Directives Coming Out Of Europe, Japan, And China Will Have A Major Impact On The Global Electronics Industry.
Is The Industry Prepared? What Are The Issues? Minefield Or Opportunity? How Is The Industry Responding?
The 25 counties of the European Union, including its 10 new Eastern European member countries, as well as Japan, and China, are about to
restrict the use of environmentally hazardous materials in electronic components and systems.
This will have a huge impact on the industry --- all chip and equipment manufacturers and distributors doing business internationally
must comply with these new directives.
ELECTRONIC DESIGN ARTICLES
Setting A New Standard For Through-Silicon Via Reliability
for 168 hrs; followed immediately by lead-free solder reflow: step heat/cool 25°C to 280°C to 25°C... excursions, each representative of a lead-free solder reflow cycle.
After attachment to the PCB... and process innovations have lead to copper tracks and low-k dielectrics, while novel circuit..., the die are packaged in the wafer while still in wafer form and the wafer is then singulated to free Gilles Humpston,Bents Kidron,Moshe KrimanOct 19, 2009Similar pages
Stubble Trouble—Beating Back Those Tin Whiskers
by adding lead to tin solder. In those days, the alloy was a mix of approximately 30% lead to 60% tin. Now, because of the RoHSlead-free dictates, whiskers are casting reliability shadows over many.... Legacy-related arguments contend that lead-free solder could shorten product life, resulting... the introduction of the EU’s RoHS regulations, they have surfaced to the top of the agenda in many electronic... equipment were exempted from RoHS. Okay, so how can they be eliminated? We know that compressive stress
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The Devil Is In The Details—Bulkhead Wiring Penetration Considerations
and long lead times. It’s important to shop around for a solution that not only meets your project’s design needs, but also satisfies your cost and delivery expectations.
LEAD-FREE SOLDERING OVENS
With the introduction of the RoHS standards, electronics manufacturers need to have ovens capable...; Overestimate the ease of finding the right feedthrough solution; Underestimate the lead time....
The challenge can be in the quantity of the leads required to get through a small space, because the larger
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Cool Ceramics Help Simplify LED Heat Dissipation
. Usually, the surrounding air is either free or forced convection. The less aesthetic the material... Substances (RoHS). Completely inert, they are the last part of a system to give out.
The simplified
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High-Density IC Packaging Looks At The Third Dimension
Patterning, and 100% Pb-free Packaging,” K. Mistry et al, IEDM 2006.
3. ITRS Roadmap 2007... metallization.
As the physical dimensions of a conductor approach the mean free path of its charge... progressions from 65- to 32-nm nodes from NEC. The dimensions are approaching mean free path dimensions, so
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Improvements in IC mold compounds and Die Attach materials have enabled improved Moisture Sensitivity Level (MSL)
classifications at higher temperatures. As an example, a 48 pin HPQFP that had been MSL classified at 5a (24 hour floor
life) for 235 Degree C reflow has now successfully passed MSL3 (168 hours floor life) for 260 Degree reflow...
Materials and Controls have been identified to improve the MSL performance of PowerPAD packages from ~ MSL5a @ 235 C
to ~ MSL3 @ 260 C for TI's S_PQFP-G packages (48 pin PHP& 64 pin PAP). This performance level now meets the customer's
requirement, and is achieved using Lead(Pb)-Free, NiPdAu leadframes. This MSL rating includes thermal path testing...
Texas Instruments (TI) has recently taken proactive steps to introduce its package options as "Green," including its
Quad Flat No-lead (QFN) packages. The QFN packages are near-chip-scale plastic encapsulated packages that use
conventional copper lead frame technology, without peripherally protruding leads, within their construction...
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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has announced the release of a new surface-mount aluminum capacitor series designed to provide capacitance values up to 680 µF and reliability at high temperatures up to 125° C. The new 140 CRH RoHS-compliant SMD alu ...
Datakey Electronics, Inc., a manufacturer of rugged, re-programmable memory Keys and Tokens, has announced that all of their standard catalog products are available in RoHS-compliant models. RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) is a Europea ...
Lantronix, Inc. announced the addition of 802.11b/g wireless capabilities to its popular WiPort embedded 802.11 networking module. This new WiPort is the first embedded RoHS-compliant device server to provide serial-to-wireless, or, Ethernet-to- ...
Is The Industry Prepared?
