SemiGen News

  • SemiGen Opens RF Supply Center. Michelle Richards named as Director.

    SemiGen has announced the opening of our new RF Supply Center and will begin accepting orders for epoxies, bonding tools, gold wire and other supplies used in the manufacture and test of microwave modules and components on January 3rd, 2012. The center is fully stocked and located adjacent to the SemiGen manufacturing center. It will be ready to provide immediate delivery of epoxy paste and sheets, epoxy pre-forms, gold wire, bonding tools and supplies from all major suppliers. No minimum order is required, saving consumers from traditionally long lead times and higher minimum orders when they buy direct from manufacturers.

    The move is in direct response to customer requests for quick delivery of their most commonly used supplies in their own RF/Microwave assembly as well to supply kits on the SemiGen manufacturing floor for turnkey build-to-print services.

    Michelle Richards, formerly of Bonding Source, will join SemiGen as Director of the RF Supply Center. Michelle is a respected leader in her field and is an assembly and bonding supply expert. She will be instrumental in creating a fully available line of the most sought after products used every day in RF and microwave manufacturing.

    "Adding an RF Supply Center right into our facility completes the puzzle for our customers," said Jim Morgan, President of SemiGen. "Having key supplies and components on-hand for just-in-time delivery to their floor or ours avoids a common stumbling block in meeting deadlines."

    SemiGen also has plans to introduce classes in wirebonding and die attachment as a benefit to customers needing to augment their own staff. These classes will also provide SemiGen a continuous pool of talent for their assembly floor. Night training classes are expected to begin in June of 2012. A class schedule will be published in April 2012.

  • SemiGen Relocates, Expanding RF/Microwave Assembly and Test Capabilities

    SemiGen has announced that the company is moving to a new facility and expanding its RF/microwave assembly and test capabilities. To meet the demands of customer requirements and to accommodate SemiGen's recent acquisitions and new product line repair business, SemiGen has relocated from its former location in Londonderry, NH to 920 Candia Road in Manchester, NH. The new, 25,000 square foot space adds a second SMT line as well as a Class 10000 ESD Zero clean room for RF microwave assembly, and SemiGen's newest capital acquisition, an MRSI605 Automatic Eutectic Die Bonder.

    SemiGen's certified assemblers are experts in advanced thermo compression, ultrasonic, ball-bonding, and hand assembly techniques. Standard services include: die attachment (epoxy or solder), wire and ribbon bonding (gold and aluminum), coil winding and tacking, beam lead diode attachment, feedthru installation, board installation (epoxy, solder, screw down), hand soldering, surface mounting, and epoxy encapsulation. In addition to build-toprint services, SemiGen offers troubleshooting, repair, and re-certification of units that return from the field. SemiGen's facility is approved by several defense contractors and can up screen devices to comply with all military specifications and requirements.

    SemiGen also provides electrical and quality testing of RF/Microwave hybrids and components up through 40 GHz in an in-house test lab. They offer full tuning to customer requirements, inspection, and final ATP with Certificate of Compliance. Typical tuning methods include stub-tuning, impedance matching, capacitive, and inductive. SemiGen tests on a number of parameters, including isolation, insertion loss, gain, noise figure, VSWR, phase and phase tracking, IP3, switching speed, various power testing, lifetime, series resistance, DC electricals (VF, VB, CT, IR), bond-pull testing and die shear, and failure analysis of diodes.

  • SemiGen Acquires Element Manufacturing of Nashua, NH

    James P. Morgan, President of SemiGen, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Element Manufacturing of Nashua New Hampshire (www.elementmfg.com), a surface mount and thru hole contract manufacturer. Element will remain in its current 7000 square foot facility in Nashua until later this year after which SemiGen and Element will be consolidated into a new 25,000 square foot facility in Manchester, New Hampshire.

    "This acquisition gives us technical advantages in SMT and thru hole assembly that complement our core services and expand our manufacturing," said Morgan, "With this piece, SemiGen is moving in the direction of a one stop shop for commercial and military applications involving technical expertise and quality with advances in assembly and test offerings."

    Tammy Tisbert, CEO of Element, will join the SemiGen team as Director of SMT Assembly. "I started Element 4 years ago to build a premium service company that prided itself on fast turn and high quality," Tisbert said. "SemiGen gives Element the depth it lacks in the front end of the business and adds tremendous support to our overall ability to grow and service our customers."

  • SemiGen Now Offering Semiconductor Evaluations

    SemiGen is pleased to announce full service lot qualifications, design reviews and production feasibility reports on a variety of die and surface mount packaged semiconductor devices. These services have been specifically designed to assist semiconductor manufacturers and their customers when they need to quickly qualify new devices. Evaluation reports are derived by taking a manufacturer's golden unit and a test unit, and running side-by-side evaluations of all diodes, transistors, MMICs, FETs, and passive devices.

    For turnkey service, SemiGen also offers fast, accurate die pick and place from Si and GaAs wafers into waffle pack, gel pack, or film frames using Laurier and Royce automatic and semi automatic machines.

  • SemiGen Completes Integration of AMR, Inc.

    SemiGen has announced the complete integration of previously acquired Alternative Microwave Resources of Amherst New Hampshire, into our Londonderry facility. AMR was a privately held contract manufacturer specializing in hybrid assembly, engineering, and testing of RF and microwave modules up to 40 GHz. The company was also a troubleshooting and repair specialist of various units such as amplifiers, VCOs, limiters, and other military subsystems and modules that needed repair down to the component level.

    The integration of AMR complements our core assembly business while expanding our test and verification services.