New Product Introduction/Qualification

Extensive qualification processes for new products. Every new product goes through stringent JEDEC and MIL-STD stress and accelerated-life tests. Every product is subjected to destructive stress tests to add to our understanding of each product’s capabilities and operating limitations.

Ongoing Monitoring

In addition to product qualifications, Mini-Circuits commits to regular monitors of our products to ensure that our
high standards in quality and reliability are maintained and achieved over the product lifetime.

Our Reliability Database captures and tracks the reliability performance of our manufacturing lots over time.
This database provides a complete record of each product’s reliability history.

Example:
Moisture Sensitivity Level 1 (MSL 1) rating in accordance with IPC/JEDECSTD-020C.

The following shows C-Mode Scanning Acoustic Microscope (C-SAM) photos of a device before and after moisture sensitivity level 1 (MSL 1) tests

Before MSL-1 level testing : top view

After MSL-1 level testing : top view

Before MSL-1 level testing : bottom view

After MSL-1 level testing : bottom vie

The table below shows delamination determination after MSL 1 pre-conditioning tests. Monitoring results have shown no delamination detected over the past 5 years.

Additional tests and evaluations conducted by Mini-Circuits

MMIC Amplifier Junction Temperature
Measurement and Monitoring Program

Temperature has a direct impact on the operating performance and reliability of semiconductor devices. Devices that operate
at high junction temperatures for a long period of time can sustain permanent damage and shorten lifetimes.

At Mini-Circuits, MMIC amplifier junction temperature measurement and monitoring is performed on every production wafer
lot to ensure our customers receive products with the highest quality, reliability and performance.

Benefits:
Reliability Monitoring is used to evaluate product reliability performance throughout a product’s lifetime. Comprehensive qualifications are performed for process and materials changes during the product’s lifetime. A Reliability Database tracks
the reliability performance over time and archives all qualification data. This database provides a complete record of each product’s reliability history.

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