Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 01 15:19:54 EDT 2010 | dilogic
We've got prototype 6-layer PCB's and I suspect that mfg. swapped some internal layers. Would it be possible to use some form of x-ray inspection to verify that? Any ideas?
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 05 17:47:21 EDT 2010 | boardhouse
Hi Deni, X-ray will not be able to see through Power and Grn planes. Your only way to find out is: 1) ask your board supplier to supply stack up used. 2) surface grind layer by layer to validate if it is correct stack up. What is making you think
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 10:44:28 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Dumb question maybe but does the board have a layer count window? Usually each layer has it's number visible in copper somewhere on the board and the shop will leave the solder mask clear of this window. If the layers were stacked incorrectly it woul
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 15 08:38:23 EDT 2003 | pjc
Don't have any specific links to papers and articles. Try searching on the IPC.org (plus APEX show http://www.goapex.org) and SMTA.org web sites. Any papers and articles on the process from equipment mfg.'s should be taken with a grain of salt. Sold
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 08 02:04:53 EDT 2010 | dilogic
Having no real experience with x-ray inspection, this answer helped a lot. What I actually want is to check top 3 layers and it should be pretty straightforward, as the second layer from the top should be almost empty and the third one should be a gr
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 06 14:45:52 EDT 2010 | stepheniii
You would be suprised what you can see with even a simple Xray machine. The engineers upstairs wanted to see if the xray could confirm there was an open via on a thin dense board with several layers. I thought (but didn't say) no way. But with carefu
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 14 16:30:02 EST 2001 | CAL
Reading x-rays is an art. All balls should be symmetrical in size and shape. Please provide more information on your question. Why just opens? If the Balls are not consistently the same in size or shape there is a problem. Larger balls could be from
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 16 14:37:25 EDT 2000 | Roberto Navarro
Hi, I work for Nortel and here rework BGA'S we use DRS22 rework station and CRT 2000 X-ray inspection. The main problem is put again the BGA on the PCB because you need reboling the PCB and you could damage the soldermask. Talking about Air-vac is ve
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 15 02:33:37 EDT 1999 | jeff ferry
| Anyone know a independent PCB inspection of BGA (X-Ray). We have several test boards that need BGA inspection. | One more source. Circuit Technology Center. Both X-ray services on Nicolet X-ray systemm and BGA rework on Air-Vac and OK Internation
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 08 09:37:20 EDT 1999 | Rob C
Anyone know a independent PCB inspection of BGA (X-Ray). We have several test boards that need BGA inspection.
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