Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 22 16:49:44 EST 2008 | pms
Steve, Trying to keep wave solder from coming up the via' from the bottom and adhering to the via's and via's pads during wave. We use WS flux thru-out the whole process. I have been concerned about possible flux intrapment in the via's. That's a g
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 09:33:09 EST 2000 | Kurt Waskow
Interested in information regarding PCB soldermask tenting over vias within a BGA layout. Is this a common practice to reduce the occurrence of shorts, are there any reliability concerns? Thanks!
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 08:33:53 EST 2000 | Tony Di Mauro
Kurt, When I was working in a captive manufacturing house we had been to migrate toward tenting all vias under the BGA to eliminate not only shorts but insufficient (Starved) joints. Tony
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 27 19:37:32 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Wolfgang is correct. Copper plating thickness of the via barrel walls is a key question you need to answer to troubleshoot this. Tenting is a red herring.
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 09:33:09 EST 2000 | Kurt Waskow
Interested in information regarding PCB soldermask tenting over vias within a BGA layout. Is this a common practice to reduce the occurrence of shorts, are there any reliability concerns? Thanks!
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 08:33:53 EST 2000 | Tony Di Mauro
Kurt, When I was working in a captive manufacturing house we had been to migrate toward tenting all vias under the BGA to eliminate not only shorts but insufficient (Starved) joints. Tony
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 07 00:28:59 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| Q #1) Is it more reliable to have the mask tent over the vias or risk getting vias half filled with solder? These are vias with an .020" hole and .040" or .050" pad. John, It depends......mainly on the via size. Tenting works on smaller vias. Tent
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 14 21:29:29 EDT 2001 | mugen
Hi, Just to clarify the terms, traditional : aka : Ramp-Soak-Spike (RSS) profiling method tent : aka : Ramp-To-Spike (RTS) profiling method By search engines (eg. Yahoo), you can find more example profiles for your ref.
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 27 16:37:16 EDT 2004 | babe
Well I would think that the heat slug would work to a point. Obviously made to dissipate heat from the component. That said it wouldn't hurt to cover that also with aluminum foil. Your not wrapping a present, your simply tenting the component. IR wil
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 22:43:24 EDT 2004 | davef
Just to help convince those on the fence that we don't know dip: 2221A, 4.5.1 tells you the vias have to be tented on both sides.
