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News Release from: Ardent Concepts | Subject: Redundant Contact technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 June 2004
Novel contacts exceed expectations
Ardent Concepts founder and President Gordon Vinther has revealed that the cycle life of Redundant Contact technology has advanced far beyond initial expectations.
Ardent Concepts founder and President Gordon Vinther has revealed that the cycle life of Redundant Contact technology has advanced far beyond initial expectations "When we first developed the Redundant Contact, our objective was to deliver the highest speed contactors in the industry"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ardent Concepts has begun shipping high-performance LGA contactor solutions based on its novel Redundant Contact technology.
"Our known RF capabilities are now matched by equally impressive durability and life of the contactor system".
"With our simple refurbish kits and highly robust new 0.5mm contacts, over 1 million touchdowns are easily achieved with little or no machine downtime".
"In addition, we can demonstrate a very impressive cost-per-touchdown, further reducing the cost of test".
High speed contactor systems are available from Ardent with 4-6 week lead times.
The company provides two sockets, an assembly fixture, and replacement contacts with each 1 million cycle system.
Custom designs are available, and solutions are available as drop in replacements on existing footprints.
Since inception, Ardent Concepts has focused on the emerging package technologies dominating the wireless device space.
With insertion loss of less than -1dB at 24GHz, the Redundant Contact is ideally suited for testing of RF parts for consumer electronics, LAN/WAN, and other wireless (Wi-Fi) applications.
Contactors are available for QFN, LGA and most other package types.
Ardent Concepts also offers Kelvin solutions for 0.5mm QFNs.
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