January 2014

Dear Electronics Colleague:

2014 has started with a roar. The electronics industry came off an exciting CES featuring the new "hot spot"-your car as the innovations in electronics keep on coming. A group of scientists from my alma mater, the University of Illinois, used "Kickstarter" to crowd fund an innovative way of developing circuits, teaching STEM curriculum and hacking electronics hardware design.  This is a new way to breadboard and develop hardware. Check out the full link here. We will be providing some teaching using these tools some time this year after the first products are commercialized. Finally, we installed several new analytical tools that make sure that we can continue to serve you as geometries shrink and devices get more complicated. 

Wishing a Healthy and Successful New Year!  

Bob Wettermann

President, BEST Inc.

Follow me on  Twitter now at @bwetman 

New High 1um Spot Size X-Ray Installed at BEST 

BEST recently installed a new X-Ray system for x-ray inspection. This tools can "see" different PoP levels, microcracks in BGA balls, measure hole fill and automatically scan a board for fast AXI of your products.  

In the near future BEST will be hosting a mini tech symposium (so you can see the live x-ray images) on X-RAY inspection. Look for details. 

BEST Releases Kapton(TM) Stencils for DIY'rs,  Hobbyists 

BEST now provides high quality plastic film stencils for the DIY, home hobbyist and student markets.  Each stencil is part of kit which includes a high qulaity Kapton(TM) stencil, board holders and a squeegee.  Stencils can be orderd in 4,5 and 6 mil thicknesses.