In today's day of age, IC counterfeiting, falsification, or simply sales of known defective, hard to find IC's is drastically on the rise.
The Problem
With obsolete and hard to find IC's cost per units on the rise, 'shady' markets are growing ever more vigilant in marketing and selling defective or 'counterfeit' parts claiming to be genuine units. These devices can range from known defective units being sold as good units, reworked defective units (re-tinning, re-balling, etc), similar packages being re-marked and labeled as different units, to packages not even containing die.
Our Solution
Our team of engineers have decades of experience working with IC's, from concept to ground up development. This vast experience allows us to quickly and efficiently identify counterfeit material, in a quick, cost effective manner.
Our Services
We offer fully customizable counterfeit/validation services at extremely competitive rates.
- Visual inspection. Confirm device external characteristics to manufacturer specifications, including lead material, package dimensions, and package markings.
- Wire bond verification. Our team will verify lead to bond pad integrity, ensuring die layout matches device as well as verification of correct pin out structure to datasheet specifications.
- Device operation. Validation of specific functionality of devices in question, to confirm authenticity of device.
