Exatron offers a dedicated MSOP (Mini Small Outline Package) device handlers. These devices are unique in the industry due to their small size and near-square dimensions. These features, along with the proportionally more serious problem associated with mold flash in devices this size, presented Exatron with very serious challenges in building a handler.

The answer is a hybrid of standard gravity feed handling with features of pick-and-place mechanisms. The Exatron MSOP handler incorporates a single servo-motor driven pick up head to take devices from an input magazine (designed to be loaded off line), present them to a test site, and then return them to the top of an "output tray." The system has only one axis of linear movement (not counting the Z-axis plunge to board test site) and the devices never have to cross a gap or threshold between tubes.

The unique singulation method employed to both singulate and precise devices in the input magazine facilitates picking up and placing down the devices. In addition, precisely machined pick up heads help to assure proper device placement.

The MSOP handler shares electrical interfaces with all other Exatron Model 5000 handlers, and it is designed to dock to a wide variety of large and small test heads.

At this point, there are no options available for the MSOP handler with the exception of additional magazines to be loaded off-line and customized test sites.