Electronics Forum | Fri May 31 18:00:55 EDT 2013 | hegemon
With regards to first picture.(Large themal vias) I would attempt to measure the area of the ground pad, less the area of the "drain" holes or Thermal Vias. From that result I would reduce the aperture to account for about 50% coverage of that remai
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 30 11:36:31 EDT 2014 | emeto
About the pads shape - you can do rectangular or oblong. For stencil design oblong is better for small pads(0.2mm) because it will give better release, so having this thought in mind you should probably design oblong shape and then print make paste a
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 13:19:14 EDT 2019 | davef
There is no industry standard for BTC stand-off height. "IPC-7093A Design and Assembly Process Implementation for Bottom Termination SMT (BTC) Components" just finished "Final Draft for Industry Review" in December 2018. It mentions stand-off height
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 07 08:31:57 EDT 2011 | bootstrap
I am building a rugged digital video camera product that essentially is just a sandwitch of 3 parts: #1: front piece is machined aluminum with C-mount thread #2: middle piece is 1/16" printed circuit board #3: back piece is machined aluminum The
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 25 21:50:10 EST 2002 | davef
Some of this was copped from Fred. There are numerous package types that now fall under the rubric of land grid array [LGA]. Land grid devices [ie, Bumped Chip Carrier� [BCC], LGA, Quad Flat-pack No-lead [QFN], MicroLeadFrame�, etc] are essentially
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 03 23:59:44 EDT 2018 | gaintstar
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Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 03 23:58:23 EDT 2018 | gaintstar
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