Weird old packaging type. Can you identify this?

[JoeN]

It looks like tape and has a peel off top, but it doesn't bend and has no holes, so it can't be put on a spool or automatically indexed.  You could call it a one-wide tray with a peel off top, but that is a very liberal definition of tray the way it is meant these days.  It isn't a tube at all.  What is this packaging type called?

[retrolefty]

What is this packaging type called?

 A threefer?

[T3sl4co1l]

It doesn't look very rigid from here.  But, hard to say from a normal perspective.

Windowed bumper QFP, cool.  Old schtuff alright!

Ed: yup, CMOS EPROM style.  MAX5k series... which seems odd to me as MAX7k is, I think, finally going obsolete, and MAX3k is still going (being the 3.3V version). Or something like that.  Both latter types are EEPROM, not EPROM or Flash (well, unless the latter is, but, meh, I don't remember exactly).

On a related note, looks like they call it a tray. http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an071.pdf
Tim

[Richard Crowley]

Yes, there are generic and custom-size trays for unpackaged dice, as well as trays for different sizes of packaged parts. 



I presume that there is probably some maximum size for SMD parts to be able to put them on reels for auto pick-n-place.

[miguelvp]

Datasheet:

http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/m5000.pdf

Only reveals:

28 to 100 pins available in dual in-line package (DIP), J-lead chip carrier, pin-grid array (PGA), and quad flat pack (QFP packages)

and

MAX 5000 devices in 100-pin QFP packages are shipped in special plastic carriers to protect the QFP leads. Each carrier can be used with a prototype development socket and programming hardware available from Altera or third-party programming ma....

For detailed information and carrier dimensions, refer to the QFP Carrier & Development Socket Data Sheet and Application Note 71 (Guidelines for Handling J-Lead & QFP Devices)


Edit found app note:
ftp://ftp.altera.com/pub/lit_req/document/an/an071.pdf


So it indicates it's a tube part number E20-02080-00
Edit: nope wrong not tube, tray E20-03544-01? back to start for me

[free_electron]

This is packaging to hand out a few samples and ship them withou bending pins. They did that on early clcc qfp style packages.