Philips' new-generation leadless packages for discrete semiconductors

Royal Philips Electronics is offering a wide range of discrete semiconductors in the new leadless SOD882 and SOT883 packages including MOSFETs, general purpose transistors, resistor equipped transistors, low VCEsat BISS transistors, wideband transistors, switching diodes, Zener diodes, Schottky-Barrier diodes, Varicap diodes, bandswitch diodes and PIN diodes.

Adding "discrete" functionality in a true mass production package the SOT88x family is targeted at applications such as LCD backlight related devices, dc/dc conversion, electro static discharge (ESD) protection devices and small-signal switching transistors.

Power dissipation and board space are critical factors in the design of many embedded systems today. With a small footprint, the new SOD882 and SOT883 packages offer good power dissipation capability comparable to the industry-standard SOT23. The power dissipation is based on the heat-transfer capabilities of the leadless layout. As a result, customers benefit from the latest in miniaturization without any compromise in the electrical specification.

All products in SOD882 and SOT883 are packed in thin paper tape combined with a product pitch of 2mm. This combination enables Philips to offer 10,000 products on a standard 180mm reel, while reducing the need to change the reels on a pick-and-place machine to less than three times that of other products (based on 3.000 SOT23 products on a 180mm reel).

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