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The defense electronics market encompasses a significant range of environments — touching every corner of the globe and the atmosphere’s edge — from fixed installations with conditioned air environments, to mobile deployment in extreme temperature environments.
This paper describes Mercury’s approach to building products for enhanced durability under extreme environmental conditions, including repeated temperature cycling over wide temperature ranges. Learn ruggedization design practices, risk mitigations, and Mercury's best-in-class set of design rules and manufacturing process called modified off-the-shelf (MOTS).
Read this white paper to learn:
- Mercury's MOTS service that deliver products built and manufactured to provide extreme durability
- Best practices: MOTS mechanical attachment and solder joint integrity
- Best practices: Component underfill for thermal cycling
- Best practices: Gold Embrittlement challenges and soldering
- Best practices: Tin whisker mitigation to minimize use of lead without degrading system performance
- DFN/QFN Packages challenges
- Management of vented packages
- Levels of MOTS+ ruggedization
