To accommodate surface mount technology, SMT, a completely new set of components was needed. New SMT outlines were required, and often the same components, e.g. ICs were sold in both traditional leaded packages and SMT packages.
The most well known financial leverage ratio is the debt-to-equity ratio. It is expressed as: Total debt / Total Equity. For example, if a company has $10M in debt and $20M in equity, it has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50 = ($10M/$20M).
Calculating the debt-to-equity ratio is simply a matter of taking the amount of money a company uses to finance its operations and dividing that by the total available capital. For example, a business that has accumulated $50 million in debt and has $150 million in assets has $200 million in available capital.