Surface mount technology
With PCB design engineers increasingly pursuing demands for smaller, lighter and more economical designs, surface-mount technology has revolutionized the industry. Utilizing components for several operations increases functionality and reduces costs by allowing smaller components to be placed automatically, at high speed.
The advance in design of FPGAs, memory chips and processor modules, while being expensive, has reduced the component count for many given circuit designs and has revolutionized the volume and ease with which PCBs can be populated.
With such a high density and volume of components mounted on any given PCB, real estate is at a premium. However, more and more production and test engineers appreciate the inclusion of individual test-points, placed strategically, to allow for circuit testing, analysis and fault finding.
Oxley has long been recognized as an innovative manufacturer of precision connector components and the Surface-Mount Oxley (SMOX) Test-Point is the latest addition to a wide range of interconnection products. Available taped and reeled and with a compatible mating socket, the SMOX connection system lends itself to a wide range of production and research and development applications.
