Welcome to the first issue of Ridgetop Group's eNewsletter, the Ridgetop View. Ridgetop takes its “Engineering Innovation” motto very seriously and we have demonstrated this through our growing base of customers worldwide.

As many of you know, Ridgetop maintains two divisions, Semiconductor and Prognostics, to meet the fault-tolerance needs of our customers. From radiation-hardened ADCs...

The Problem: Solder Joint Faults in FPGAs

Solder joint faults can be described with a single word - pernicious. Solder joints connect the BGA package, containing an FPGA processor, to the PCB. Without early detection, electrical anomalies caused by solder joint faults can result in the catastrophic failure of mission-critical equipment.

July 31, 2008
Ridgetop Group, Inc. , a Tucson-based advanced technology firm, announced that the Navy’s Space and Warfare (SPAWAR) Command Center in San Diego, has awarded the company a $1.2 Million Contract to provide advanced prognostic and diagnostic tools applicable to shipboard Information Technology (IT) Networks.

June 11, 2008
Ridgetop Group has been awarded a SeaPort™ Enhanced (SeaPort-e) Purchase Contract, which adds Ridgetop to a list of pre-approved contractors for professional support services for the U.S. Navy.