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This video shares how to find blacktopped counterfeit electronic components by using the mechanical scrape test and acetone. The quality technicians at AERI have all earned their IDEA-ICE-3000 professional inspector certificates, ensuring that they know how to inspect semiconductors purchased from the open market. AERI offers 3 different levels of counterfeit electronic component testing, some of which include decapsulation, x-ray, XRF, and much more.
If you are looking for hard to find or obsolete IC’s please contact one of our search experts at www.aeri.com. We are here to keep your production lines moving.
Robb Hammond is the founder and CEO of AERI, an independent electronic component distributor operating since 1994. He is a founding member and former committee chair of SAE AS6081, the counterfeit-avoidance standard for independent distributors adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a recognized authority on counterfeit detection.
