StratEdge Introduces Redesigned Website

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San Diego, Calif.—StratEdge Corporation, designer and producer of packages for high-speed semiconductors, announces the unveiling of its new Website at http://www.stratedge.com. The new site features complete product information for StratEdge's line of microwave and millimeterwave packages that operate from DC to 50+ GHz, stripline filters, and assembly and test services. StratEdge packages are currently used in all applications requiring clean microwave RF performance including aerospace, telecommunications, VSAT and other satellite communications, and optoelectronics.

The new site is a powerful tool for researching, locating and specifying StratEdge products. Datasheets, design guides, application notes and photos are available for all packages and accessories, including lids and test fixtures. Charts and details of the mechanical, electrical, ASTM-F alloy and glass properties of the materials used in the packages can also be accessed. Links to recently published StratEdge articles, such as "Glass Walled Packages for High Frequency Applications" and "High-speed Digital Packaging" are provided.

These commercial packages can meet heavy electrical and thermal requirements by protecting the broadband and power MMIC amplifiers used for local multipoint distribution service (LMDS), point-to-point and point-to-multipoint applications. The SMX family is a ceramic surface-mount package for Ku-band applications that operate from DC to 16 GHz. StratEdge's digital high-speed SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) packages are used for OC-48 and OC-192 solutions, as well as research and development on the next-generation OC-768.

The hermetic SMT family of products, with performance up to 18 GHz, was introduced in 1994 to provide a low-cost alternative to conventional ceramic packages and glass-to-metal seal hybrid circuit containers for high-reliability applications. Metal packages have metal walls with either glass or ceramic seals. They can be hermetically sealed, and operate from DC to 12 GHz.

The Website explains how StratEdge uses several unique processes to build its ceramic packages that depart radically from other ceramic package manufacturers, but provide substantial improvements in electrical performance of the final product. StratEdge uses hardened, or post-fired, ceramic that does not shrink, resulting in complete dimensional stability and precise mechanical tolerances. StratEdge then mates these ceramics with its patented electrical transition designs to manufacture semiconductor packages with exceptionally low electrical losses.