Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 16 18:16:32 EDT 2005 | davef
Josh: You're correct it's tough to describe the layout of the BGA pads and traces. We wouldn't be too excited about seeing this board either. On one hand, for the obvious lack of care taken in doing the layout, this is a junk board and you shouldn
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 17 07:38:59 EDT 2005 | jdumont
Thanks for taking a look at the pics. I have made my thoughts on this type of design known to all. Im going to let this run through and have them put a note in the file for this board to reduce the trace size for the next time the board gets rev'd up
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 24 12:20:33 EDT 2004 | davef
The methods Terry mentioned are good, but our operators are too impatient. Here's how they do site prep, after removing the BGA: * Use a soldering iron to melt the solder at the base of the ball. * Flick the ball[s] from the pad[s] with the solderin
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 04 05:47:57 EST 2015 | rushpcbuk
In PCB design, a BGA (Ball Grid Array) package typically determines the number of layers that a Printed Circuit Board should have. However, the 4-layer board with a BGA package is commonly used than a 2-layer than an 8-layer PCB. On the other hand, t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 14 08:37:18 EDT 2005 | jdumont
Morning all, just took a look at a new board we just got in and the there are different pad areas under the same BGA. What happened is engineering uses wider trace sizes for some pads and those overlap when more than one go to the same pad. This caus
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 14 13:16:54 EDT 2007 | Shane
I have a customer that designed a fine pitch BGA into a board, and has put small vias in the middle of each pad on the PCB. Anyone have any ideas on how I can prevent the solder from the BGA from flowing through the vias and causing voids or no cont
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 18 08:03:58 EDT 2005 | davef
kenscj: Responding to your points of interest: * On the smoothness of BGA solder balls causing solder ball misalign, void, solder short after reflow: We expect the solder balls to be smooth and have no sharp irregularities. We can't recall attribut
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 23 16:37:22 EDT 2004 | Terry
Three methods, all work, all require generous use of flux. 1.) Use a heated, electrical desoldering tool with flux. Just be sure that you select a forgiving desoldering tip with a rounded tip end to it so that you do not scratch the pad. Advantage:
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 23 09:13:48 EDT 2007 | Peter W
Hello, those plated and solderable via in pads have two critical points: 1. We have discovered that _sometimes_ the plating seems not to be perfect, as extreme voiding is visible in tha bga solder ball 2. The detection of some defects by AXI is limi
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 16 17:15:51 EDT 2007 | davef
Ask the board fabricator to: * Fill the vias with resin. * Then metalize and copper plate the filled via along with the pad. * Then plate with solderability protection. This results in what appears to be a solid pad. For more, look here: http://www
