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HTV and HTV Conservation become part of TÜV NORD GROUP and its semiconductor subsidiary ALTER TECHNOLOGY.

New Business Unit: Digital & Semiconductor

ALTER TECHNOLOGY and TÜVIT form the BU Digital & Semiconductor of TÜV NORD GROUP.

HTV and HTV Conservation location Bensheim / Germany

Owing to predictive and continuous expansion of the HTV group of companies, unique synergies pertaining to almost every area of electronics have been developed and realized in recent years.

From a single source, HTV provides comprehensive services regarding all aspects of electronic components ranging from component programming including the development of the corresponding programming algorithms, packaging, data sheet and functional testing as well as flaw and failure analyses up to long-term conservation and tape & reel service.

The highest level of quality, decades of market experience as well as special customer proximity and flexibility offer the best solutions for every specific customer requirement.

The high degree of ingenuity of our more than 150 employees leads to the continuous extension of our portfolio by new extraordinary processes and methods with unique selling points across all sectors.

HTV Halbleiter-Test & Vertriebs-GmbH

Test and programming of electronic components

Products and Services:

• Testing electronic components and assemblies (even in serial quantities):
  • Electrical testing according to data sheet
  • Selection of specific parameters
  • Testing of optical parameters (such as LEDs or displays)
  • Mechanical testing, e.g. pull and shear test
  • Environmental testing and qualification
  • Customer-specific test program development (e.g., selection)
  • Failure analysis
    
    
• Programming services:
  • Programming of e.g. microcontrollers, flash memories, memory cards, NAND flashes, serial numbers and wafers
  • In-house adapter and algorithm development

The HTV Halbleiter-Test & Vertriebs-GmbH is your on-call specialist for testing and programming of electronic components since 30 years and counting.

A huge, state of the art machine park consisting of numerous fully automated test systems by various manufacturers and a large number of self-developed test systems make it possible to gather high-precision measurements from even the most complex integrated circuits at a capacity of several hundred thousand components per day. Almost every component can be tested comprehensively, even at different ambient temperatures.

Possessing a programming capacity of more than 750,000 pieces/day and – if required – a delivery time of only a few hours (even for large quantities), the HTV Halbleiter-Test & Vertriebs-GmbH provides programming of electronic components on highly modern, fully automatic programming systems as well as their customer-specific marking and packing at the highest level for their customers.

HTV Conservation GmbH

Comprehensive analytical services and unique long-term conservation of electronic components

Products and Services:

• Analyses at the HTV Institute for material analysis, an overview:
  • Controlling quality and analyzing failures along the entire production cycle
  • Analyzing goods of rather uncertain origins, as well as the failures of processes, printed circuit boards and individual components
  • Identifying materials
  • Ascertaining component manipulation and evaluating originality/counterfeit screening
  • Ascertaining the current aging situation and processability
  • Predicting shelf life and storability
  • Evaluating bare boards and assemblies according to IPC-A-600 and IPC-A-610
  • Qualifying assemblies and components
    
    
• Globally unique long-term conservation and storage:
  • HTV-TAB® process for the long-term conservation and storage of electronic components such as parts, assemblies, displays as well as wafers and DIEs in high security buildings for up to 50 years
  • Cyclical energization of components and assemblies to maintain their functionality (such as displays or capacitors)
  • Storage of electronic components and assemblies in nitrogen dry packs as an alternative for short term storage

Comprehensive examinations to ensure quality and analyze failures

One single component of poor quality or a badly soldered joint can impair the function and quality of an entire electronic assembly.

To ensure flawless functionality and quality, the comprehensive analysis of electronic components, especially of those of rather dubious origins, is of essential importance. With the help of a variety of specific procedures and methods, electronic components and assemblies can be selectively and reliably examined in the HTV Institute for material analysis with a high test depth. Weak points and possible failures can be identified in time. As part of a predictive company policy, the risk of major production issues, contractual penalties for late delivery and possible recourse claims can be minimized. Errors that have already occurred can be quickly and comprehensively identified, localized and subjected to a precise analysis at HTV Conservation GmbH.

Globally unique Long-Term Storage

Due to the constantly increasing number of discontinued products and the resulting lack of availability of electronic components for mass production and repair of various end products, the storage of important components is of more and more significance.

However, the conventional storage of buffer components in nitrogen dry packs or corrosion prevention foils offers a solution of up to 2 years – at best – since, among other things, incipient ageing processes, such as diffusion, influence  the processability and functionality of electronic components and assemblies after only 1-2 years.

Using the unique HTV-TAB® process (“Thermisch-absorbtive Begasung”, meaning a thermal-absorptive gas treatment) developed by the HTV Conservation GmbH, the decisive physical-chemical aging processes of electronic components can be brought to a near halt by a special conserving as well as pollutant-eliminating atmosphere and specific individual temperature reduction. This allows a long-term storage for up to 50 years.

The quality, processability and functionality of the electronic components are ensured for several decades, and the discontinuation of spare parts loses its sting.