Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - Features

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada -- C-MAC MicroTechnology’s North American hybrid circuit manufacturing facility, C-MAC Microcircuits, ULC, has achieved ISO 13485 Certification for medical devices.

ISO 13485 is a medical device quality systems standard that supplements ISO 9001. Some of the additional requirements relate to design controls, process controls (including environmental controls), special processes, traceability, record retention and regulatory actions, which are more critical for the medical device industry.

"C-MAC activity in the medical market clearly required the ISO 13485 certification. The certification of a quality management system specifically for medical devices proves advantageous, and in many cases essential, for C-MAC to continue to grow our business in the global market," said John Tran, North America sales manager, C-MAC MicroSystems Solutions Division.

C-MAC Microcircuits produces a wide range of functional modules for use in the telecommunication, industrial, medical, military and automotive systems. The technology encompasses multiplayer thick-film interconnect substrates, surface-mount hybrid circuits along with direct-attach flip-chip and chip & wire assemblies.

SAN JOSE -- Flextronics, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, last night reported first-quarter net sales of $3.9 billion, up $17 million over last year.

For the quarter ended June 30, Flextronics' pro-forma net income rose 27% to $99.6 million. GAAP net income slid $15.6 million to $58.7 million year-over-year.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC -- AVX Corp. reported net sales of $319.8 million for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, down 7% year-on-year but up 4.5% sequentially. Net income was $10.2 million, down 55% year-on-year.

John Gilbertson, president and chief executive, said, "The sales increases in the last two quarters indicate that end market growth is continuing, and this is a positive sign for AVX and the industry."

Sequentially, profit from operations improved to $10.1 million. Profit from operations was $30.7 million last year.

Cash and short and long-term investments in securities increased $5.4 million to $725.9 million during the quarter.

Redmond, WA -- Datalight and Data I/O Corp. announced a joint technology effort aimed to ease the task of bringing NAND Flash products to market.

As market demand for increased memory in electronic products has surged, designers of new products increasingly use NAND Flash memories in new designs to capture a cost advantage. The challenge is that NAND memories require bad-blocks to be detected and managed while writing to the device. The joint effort hopes to enable NAND flash users to leverage performance capabilities, shortening the development cycle and ensuring accurate handling of bad blocks.

Datalight specializes in system software to help OEMs add value to embedded devices. Data I/O is a provider of manual and automated device programming systems for programmable flash technologies.

Mansfield, TX – Mouser Electronics will be the first catalog distributor to market Oki Semiconductor’s advanced integrated circuits to the industry.

Oki manufactures a line of ICs for the telecommunications, automotive, computer, medical and consumer markets. Its portfolio of products includes microcontroller, ASIC, memory, speech synthesis and RF devices.

Mouser’s customer base of over 100,000 business accounts focuses primarily on the design-in and prototyping stage of the design cycle and are comprised of a range of companies, universities and engineering consultants who recommend, specify and purchase board level components for product designs.