Vishay Siliconix products for the hi-rel environment reflect a long-term commitment to military and aerospace customers.

Meeting the changing application requirements of the defense market is a tradition at Siliconix, one which we renew on an ongoing basis with new products and new manufacturing technologies.

Key Market Segments
Certified Facilities for Military Standard
Worldwide Manufacturing, Assembly, Packaging, and Test Capabilities
Vishay Siliconix Quality and Product Reliability Programs
Tradition of Commitment

Vishay Siliconix Serves Four Key Market Segments with our Array of Hi-Rel Products

The emphasis on hi-rel products continues today with new products such as our power IC compliant devices designed to meet changing application requirements. Vishay Siliconix has invested heavily during the past few years to maintain the edge in analog ICs, power ICs, and discrete products.

Our high-quality assembly and test facilities for hi-rel products are backed up with similar assembly and test functions at off-shore or on-shore facilites for QPL or non-QPL requirements.

From manufacturing locations in the United States, China, Taiwan, and the Philippines, we deliver the highest quality products conforming to the demanding JM35810 and Mil-S-19500 specifications and complying with Standard Military Products (SMD) and Mil-STD-883. We maintain two DESC certified fabrication lines in Santa Clara, California, for both our six- and four-inch wafer lines. We also maintain and manufacture a large library of active customer source control drawings (SCD) that are unique to specific requirements and applications. The commitment to quality embodied here reflects our company objective to be the supplier of choice in the markets we pursue, achieving a leading position, worldwide, in all of our product lines.

ISO 9001 - Santa Clara, California

 MIL-M-38510 and MIL-1-38535 Assembly and Test Level B Eutectic Die Attach
 MIL-S-19500 Assembly and Test Level B Eutectic & Soft Solder Die Attach
 Certified Lockheed Monitored Class "S" Line
 Can Adapt to ESA and CECC Process and Screening requirements
 Perform specialized device testing for Commercial & Hi-Rel Products
 Aluminum wire Bond capability from 1.25 mil to 20 mil
 Hermetic Seal Methods: Solder Seal, Cerdip & Glass Seal, Resistance Welding (Metal Cans), and Seam Seal
 Packaging Capabilities: Cerdip 14, 16, 28, Flatpack 14, 16, Sidebraze 14, 16, 20, 28, LCC 20, 28, TO-100, TO-206 (TO-18); TO-205 (TO-39) AF/AD, TO-210 (TO-66), TO-213 (TO-61) AA, TO-254, TO-257, Power Modules

ISO 9002 - Philippines

 Certified for QML MIL-I-38535 and /883 Assembly and Environmental Screening; Cerdip 8, 14, 16 18, 28, Sidebraze 14, 16, 18, 20, 28, TO-100
 DESC Certified to MIL-S-19500 App. E for JFET and MOSFET; Assembly and Environmental Screening; TO-206 (TO-18); TO-205 (TO-39)
 Siliconix/TSI: Certified for MIL-I-39535 and /883 Test and Group A and B Testing; Perform Test and Mark on all discretes from PSI; certified for Hi-Rel (Non-JAN) MIL JFET; Testing/Group A

ISO9002 - Taiwan

 DESC certified to MIL-S-19500 App. E for MOSFET; TO-205 (TO-39); TO-61, (TO-210); TO-66 (TO-213)

Korea

 Certified for /883 Assembly & Environmental Screening; Cerquad 44

Vishay Siliconix Quality Programs

All Vishay Siliconix products are backed by the Vishay Siliconix Quality Policy: to achieve total customer satisfaction through everything we do, and to make the quality of our products and services our number the priority. Continuous improvement at Vishay Siliconix incorporates a rigorous series of courses for employees worldwide in CI/SPC tools. Other processes used by Vishay Siliconix to ensure quality and reliability are

 periodic reliability testing to monitor product reliability
 audits and monitors to verify conformance to requirements
 supplier quality review to measure subcontractors and raw materials
 qualifications/change control to maintain quality in new products and through major process changes
 AOQ/PPM to measure product quality at shipment

Vishay Siliconix Product Reliablity Programs

Product reliability at Vishay Siliconix is assured by two primary programs: the Reliability Qualification Program and the Product Reliability Monitor Program.

Qualification Program Purpose

Qualification is a means for verifying that changes in circuit design, fabrication process, package materials or type, or assembly method or location result in product that meet specified reliability requirements. In addition, the qualification process is a source of much information on the major characteristic of a new product or process technology.

Stresses Employed

The stresses, tests, and evaluations required for change are specified in a matrix table contained in a controlled qualification specification. The stresses employed in a qualification will depend on the nature of the change and the device and package type to be qualified. In general, the following stresses and evaluations are part of this matrix:

Vishay Siliconix has supplied a distinguished line of hi-rel products since the company's founding in 1962. Despite the dramatic changes in the world defense market over the past few years, Vishay Siliconix retains its commitment to the continued release of new hi-rel products and packages, and above all to our-rel customers. The spirit of dedication which Vishay Siliconix has brought to defense programs lives on in our commitment to providing products for today's increasingly sophisticated defense technologies.