The Conundrum: The way to get the piece cost down on a test socket designed to work with a specific device package is to make a set of molds specific to the application. Unfortunately, a set of molds is expensive. If you’re going to make thousands of sockets, you can justify this cost. But for many situations, only a few sockets are needed.
Aries Electronics Inc. manufactures a broad range of custom and standard interconnection and packaging products for electronics, including Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) test sockets for DIP, PGA, PLCC and SOIC devices; the Correct-A-ChipT product line of "intelligent connectors"; and an extensive array of high frequency test and burn in sockets.
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