Syfer Secures Stamp Of Approval For Extended Capacitor Range

3rd January 2008

ES Admin

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Equipment manufacturers seeking quality-assured surface mount capacitors for high reliability and safety critical applications, now have an extended range to choose from, thanks to leading UK-based manufacturer, Syfer. The company offers the most extensive line-up of devices available with the internationally renowned IECQ-CECC release approval.

Syfer has been working closely with BSI and IECQ to produce urgently needed updates to the CECC 32101-801 qualification. Significant advances in surface mount capacitor technology have rendered the 1988 approval too restrictive, such that popular new devices could not be qualified. Using the IEC ‘Fast Track’ Rules of Procedure, a new IECQ-CECC Component Specification and Assessment Specification, called QC32100, have been created.

Incorporating the key elements of the existing release approval, the new specification has extended coverage to include smaller chip sizes, voltage ratings of 16, 25, 500 and 1kVdc, and increased capacitance ranges in C0G and X7R dielectrics. The result is that procurement departments can now source a far wider range of IECQ-CECC approved surface mount capacitors than previously.

“The outdated 1988 standard had become restrictive, covering an increasingly reduced range of the components that are being designed in today,” commented Howard Ingleson, Syfer’s Managing Director. “Yet demand for quality assured components has never been higher,” he added. Syfer has noted that some competitors have ceased offering quality approved

devices because the costs associated with the process audits and component tests were too high to justify over a narrow range.

The extended range of quality assured surface mount capacitors now available from Syfer are expected to appeal particularly to equipment manufacturers in the military, avionics, space and automotive industries.

Syfer is reassuring customers that under the new QC32100 process, there is no change to components previously qualified under the old system, in terms of design, manufacturing, test or inspection processes.

Examples of Syfer parts now, for the first time, offered with IECQ-CECC approval, include the miniature 0603 surface mount capacitors with capacitance ranges from 1.5nF in 16V to 100pF in 250V for C0G dielectrics, and 100nF in 16V to 5.6nF in 250V for X7R. Existing ranges, in 0805 to 2225 footprints, have been extended to cover 16 and 25V dc and 500 and 1kV dc voltage ratings, while maximum capacitance ranges now qualified under IECQ-CECC approval have been extended.

All termination types now offered by Syfer, including tin, tin/lead and Syfer’s FlexiCapTM, are also IECQ-CECC approved.