Texas Instruments (TI) has switched to a palladium lead finish to address European environmental concerns associated with lead disposal. There have been documented failures of the hygroscopic dust test attributed to palladium coated leads. TI is aware of the problem, but to my knowledge nothing has been done about it.
-----Original Message----- From: Kretsch, John Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:06 AM To: '[email protected]'; 'EMC PSTC'; 'TREG Newsgroup' Subject: Hygroscopic Dust Troubleshooting I thought I would try to contact the collective on this one... We have a shelf system that is failing GR-63 hygro dust with excessive bit errors (unit did pass Gaseous contaminants no problem). Air is filtered. Anyone have experiences that they would like to share (non-proprietary of course) about how to trouble-shoot and solve this problem? This was the only GR-63 test to have a failure. Regards, John K.
