Altera's Environmentally Friendly FPGA & CPLD Solutions
 Altera offers lead-free packages for many of its FPGAs, CPLDs, and configuration devices, including the Stratix®, Stratix GX, Stratix II, Stratix II GX, Cyclone™, APEX™, ACEX®, FLEX®, Mercury™, MAX®, MAX II, HardCopy® and HardCopy II device families. These lead-free devices are fully compliant with the restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS) directive controlling the content of hazardous substances in electronic equipment in Europe taking affect July 1, 2006.
Product Leadership
Altera is a preeminent developer of environmentally friendly programmable logic solutions and has been shipping lead-free production devices since 2002. These devices range from Altera’s 8-pin small-outline integrated circuit (SOIC) packages to the 1,508-ball flip-chip FineLine BGA® packages. Today, Altera maintains one of the most extensive lead-free product offerings in the industry.
Technical papers presented at the October, 2003 IPC Lead-Free Conference in Germany and the February, 2004 APEX Conference in Los Angeles showcase Altera’s extensive engineering expertise and ability to help customers migrate more easily to lead-free technology.
Additional Information
The environment compliance data for Altera’s lead-free devices is available in the Material Declaration Data for Altera's Lead-Free Devices (PDF). The Challenges in Manufacturing Reliable Lead Free Components (PDF) conference paper is available for you to download, as are Altera's Lead (Pb)-Free Packaging Qualification Report (PDF) and Reflow Soldering Guidelines for Lead-Free Packages (PDF). Or, you can visit Altera’s lead-free products page for the latest information available.
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