Datest Announces Quick-Turn Troubleshooting with X-ray Inspection System from Nordson DAGE

Datest, a leading provider of advanced, efficient and mission-critical in-circuit
testing, test engineering, and X-ray inspection solutions, has successfully
installed a XD7600NT500 Ruby X-ray Inspection System with X-Plane™
technology from Nordson DAGE.

Datest will use the XD7600NT500 Ruby X-ray system for internal
troubleshooting and failure analysis activities. Additionally, the system will be
available to Datest customers in need of fast, accurate resolution of unique or
"one-off" problems. Head-in-pillow (HiP) defects, package-on-package (PoP)
defects and micro-cracks, among other issues, will be addressed. As part of the
new acquisition, Datest plans to implement a quick-turn troubleshooting
service for OEM and CM engineers.

The implementation of the XD7600NT500 Ruby X-ray improves Datest’s
troubleshooting, failure analysis and bonepile rehabilitation efforts. The X-
Plane™ technology speeds up the detection of defects that previously were
undetectable with conventional X-ray technology without damaging the board.
Additionally, the X-Plane™ software enables the user to obtain a nondestructive,
virtual cross-section of the area of interest.

Datest’s President Rob Boguski commented about the new service: "We are
elated to introduce the DAGE X-ray service at Datest. We believe it fills a
significant void in the marketplace for in-depth, rapid response failure analysis.
Now we can offer our customers the benefit of a choice between full-blown X-
ray inspection using Agilent 5DX and Goepel Opticon technology or highly-
focused, detail-oriented, digital tomographic fault diagnostics using the power
and precision of the DAGE Ruby X-ray system with X-Plane™ technology."

With the revolutionary X-Plane™ option, the superior image quality that
Nordson DAGE X-ray systems always provide now can be extended into
separating individual layers at a level of excellence that the traditional
laminography technique cannot achieve. X-Plane™ uses a proprietary, patent
applied for, tomosynthesis (or CT technique) to create 2-D X-ray slices in any
plane of a printed circuit board assembly without the need to cut or destroy the
board. For more information about Nordson DAGE’s X-Plane™ option or
XD7600NT500 Ruby X-ray Inspection System, visit www.nordsondage.com.