NextFlex Lauds American Semiconductor as Game Changers in Flexible Hybrid Electronics Through Delivery of Flexible Smart Asset Monitor and Tracking Tag
San Jose, July 18, 2018
American Semiconductor, Inc., the global leader in physically flexible integrated circuits and Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE), has been honored by comments from NextFlex’s Director of Technology, Jason Marsh. “American Semiconductor’s leadership on the NextFlex-funded project – Flexible Smart Asset Monitor and Tracking Tag – along with partner Boise State University, recently resulted in delivery of completed demonstrators that prove that this game-changing flexible technology has advanced substantially. This new smart sensor tag utilizes long range RFID, can monitor temperature in real-time, includes an on-board battery, and due to its flexible form factor, it can repeatedly bend to 10mm in a radius bend test,” said Jason Marsh, NextFlex Director of Technology. “This is a great demonstration of print process applications for the packaging industry, particularly for pharma cold-chain. American Semiconductor’s talented team of engineers are advancing flexible hybrid electronics, and this smart asset tag illustrates how flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) can add value to supply chain management systems that reduce waste and improve quality time to market.”
SoP-TM™, the industry’s first wafer level CSP fully protected process has been released for customer use. The unique process features polyimide encasement on all 6 sides of the die. New product developments utilizing ultra-thin and/or flexible electronics have suffered for lack of the test chips needed to develop next generation advanced manufacturing processes. Thin, bare silicon is not sufficient for this requirement.
Full function ICs are difficult to easily test and can be expensive to use for process development. Many new applications need chip scale packaged (CSP) ICs with full chip encapsulation for protection against damage and environmental exposure. American Semiconductor has released a new line-up of SoP-TM™ (6 side protected) CSP Test Chips that are designed for use in adoption of the new packaging technology.
These ultra-thin test chips include a variety of on-chip interconnects that enable quick and efficient testing of new assembly process capability. See the new Test Chips here.
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