25-02-2020 | AVX | Subs & Systems
AVX has launched an updated version of its SpiCAT online simulation tool, which facilitates the quick, easy, and accurate parametric characterisation of a comprehensive range of multilayer ceramic, polymer, tantalum, and niobium oxide surface-mount capacitors, plus multilayer varistors. The interactive tool groups multiple product series by common application features to ease, simplify, and hasten the capacitor selection process and enables design engineers to evaluate the electrical characteristics for individual part numbers concerning temperature and frequency to assure optimal application-specific selections. The latest update offers four new high-reliability, X7R-dielectric MLCC product series created for employment in demanding automotive, defence, and space applications.
The company's surface-mount, BME MLCCs employ leading-edge technology in MLCC construction and processing to provide high-reliability performance with excellent capacitance voltage abilities in comparison to conventional PME technologies. Qualified to rigorous industry standards incorporating ESCC 3009, ESCC 3009/034, ESCC 3009/041, NASA S311-P838, and MIL-PRF-32535, these high-reliability X7R MLCCs support critical, board-level size and weight decreases in SWaP-sensitive applications including satellites and launch vehicles.
“AVX strives to provide both the best possible component solutions for an extensive array of high-tech electronics applications, as well as the most effective customer support spanning component selection through design-in and even eventual maintenance and replacement. The latest update of our user-friendly SpiCAT simulation software, which featured the addition of several high-reliability X7R MLCC product lines, is just the latest example of these continued efforts,” said Neil Smyth, product marketing director, AVX. “Our newly updated SpiCAT software will better support customers’ design processes by providing quick, easy, and accurate parametric characterisation for an even more extensive range of surface-mount MLCC, tantalum, polymer, and niobium oxide capacitors and multilayer varistors.”
