The Bourns Technology Center is home to several emerging high-tech companies in Riverside, California. It is dedicated to providing a strong partnership between resident companies and the community. The Bourns Technology Center is located at the entrance to one of the fastest developing industrial locations in Riverside- Hunter Industrial Park. The Bourns Technology Center is a place where companies can work effortlessly and prosper.

In 2012, the City of Riverside was recognized as one of the top seven Intelligent Communities of the Year by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). This recognition is awarded to communities who understand the vast challenges of the Broadband Economy and can prosper in the conditions. According to the Intelligent Community Forum, the Broadband Economy is the product of high-speed and low-cost communications and information technologies on both a global and local level. The Bourns Technology Center welcomes and encourages high-tech start-up and light manufacturing companies to make the Bourns Technology Center their new home.

The markets of portable communications, computing and video equipment are challenging the semiconductor industry to develop increasingly smaller electronic components. Today, designers of compact electronic systems are faced with board space constraints, thus driving the requirement for alternative packaging technologies. Functional integration and miniaturization is the key to success!
To aid this miniaturization campaign, a new generation of Chip Diodes from Bourns has emerged that offers the capability to provide a silicon diode with minimal packaging overhead. The small signal 0603, 1005 and 1206 Chip Diodes are lead free with Cu/Ni/Au plated terminations while the other packages (SMA, SMB, SMC, 1408, 1607, 2010, 2419, 8L NSOIC, 16L NSOIC, SOT23, SOT23-6, 16L WSOIC) use 100 % Tin terminations. All Bourns® diodes are compatible with lead free manufacturing processes, conforming to many industry and government regulations on lead free components.
Bourns® Chip Diodes conform to JEDEC standards, are easy to handle on standard pick and place equipment and their flat configuration minimizes rollaway.

Advantages

The Chip Diode product range provides distinct advantages over some of our competitors, such as:

Package Size: The Chip Diodes 0603, 1005, 1206, 1408, 2010 are leadless, allowing designers to make real estate savings on PCB layouts.
Environmental: All Bourns® diodes are RoHS compliant and units meet many worldwide industry and government regulations on lead free components.
Manufacturing Friendly: Chip Diodes allow the use of industry standard pick & place equipment. The Chip Diode package makes it easy to handle and the flat configuration minimizes rollaway in production operations.