Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 06 02:54:25 EST 2004 | tommy
1)Solder paste selection 2)Reflow profile.Focus on soaking and TAL. 3)Moisture control for BGA. 4)Maybe the BGA solder ball already with void. 5)PCB design.Any via on bga land? 6)Solder masking type. 7)Solder paste volume apply on land. 8)IPC class 3
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 07 15:11:35 EDT 2004 | Dreamsniper
It's been a while since BGA usage become widespread. Ton's of articles had been written with regards to design, processing, techniques, inspection etc...but it seems like there's still no hard ground for standards and IPC 7095 doesn't cover everythin
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 02 21:56:11 EST 2005 | davef
Based on X-ray imaging, IPC-7095 standard specifies three categories for void size for BGA solder joints. These categories are based on the percentage of joint cross sectional area occupied by the voided area. Class III Small: Void area is LT 9% Cla
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 02 08:16:14 EDT 2005 | pjc
From Ray P. Prasad's article in this month's SMT magazine about the new IPC-7095 revison: ".....IPC does not have pull tests in any of its standards, and some reliability experts would prefer to keep it that way, pull tests are commonly used by some
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 16:25:43 EDT 2005 | GS
IPC-7525 tells you how to make stencil apertures for BGA IPC-7095 tells you how much should be the paste volume in order to get a reliable BGA solder joint. How are your PCB finisced? (HASL, ENIG, OSP, etc?) In case of not HASL, it could be necessa
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 30 19:14:35 EDT 2005 | DasonC
The stencil is 5 mil thick and the aperture is 12 mil sq. We found open but can't detect by x-ray. The process which we are using is no clean TIN/LEAD. Just thinking the ball size variance from 0.35~0.45mm per IPC-7095, in worst case scenarios, th
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 09:23:05 EST 2006 | Bob R.
I never understood the statement "process indicator". The 7095 committee used that wording but didn't explain it. Other than really unusual cases such as champagne voiding, BGA voids are not a reliability issue. A half dozen studies have come to t
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 25 14:39:24 EDT 2006 | davef
1 When you peel the solder connection of a BGA, * If solder remains on the soldered surface [eg, component, substrate, etc], it's good. * If some solder remains and some base metal is present, it's marginal. * If no solder remains, it's NG. 2 Try I
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 16:45:31 EDT 2013 | dyoungquist
We have been using a Heller 1707EXL (7 zones + 1 cooldown zone) for lead free (ROHS) soldering since 2007 with good results. I wouldn't go any lower than 7 heat zones though. If I may brag a bit....The IPC-7095 revision C standard was released a fe
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 19:47:16 EDT 2004 | davef
use something other than HASL. "The rest of the world seems to be processing with no problems..." [Hello!!! Earth to Carol. This is a test.] Things you are considering could be more trouble than they�re worth. "1) Reduce via hole size" [If you re
