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 | Wed Feb 13 12:44:05 EST 2008 | ck_the_flip
Larry, from my days of working for a Telecom. company, Bellcore standards (now Telcordia) was our BGA Void guideline. There was some verbiage in the guideline that accounted for allowable VOID VOLUME ...keep in mind, VOID AREA and volume are 2 diffe
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 15:36:54 EDT 2010 | pforister
Erli, Thanks for your feedback. The BGA hybrids were baked before production. I had a particular date code that we dis-continued using. This date code was consistently voiding near or above 25%. The other date codes still produced voiding on ave
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 30 09:50:18 EDT 2012 | rgduval
We believe that Dave's analysis above is mostly accurate. Run a board with no components, and check for voids. We'd also like a little more information, though, to clarify. What type of component is experiencing the voiding? You describe the void
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 14:53:24 EST 2001 | davef
Yanno what's interesting on that topic? A small number of voids make the solder connection of a BGA stronger than no voids. Moral of the story ... don't get too anal about voids. You should check the archives ;-) [har har har] we've discussed this
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 17 21:01:21 EST 2000 | Dave F
Dennis: On your BGAs: * Never seen voids any place other than the top ... lower density stuff rises. * Our spec on voids says: 1 Voids 1a Voids in soldered balls shall be less than 20% of the diameter of the solder ball. 1b No void shall sho
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 25 13:35:47 EDT 2012 | davef
Here's a paper that may help http://www.ipcoutlook.org/pdf/assembly_challenges_bottom_terminated_ipc.pdf Temperature Impact * Profile didn’t have a significant impact on voiding. * Voids slightly increased with higher temperature. Reflow Atmosp
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 21:46:56 EST 2000 | Dave F
Reg: This is copy / paste from draft version of IPC 7095 ( issued May 1999 ) ... 7.3 Assembly accept/reject criteria 7.3.1 Voids in solder joint a. Sources of Voids There can be voids in solder balls, or at the solder joints to the BGA, or at the so
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 08:19:52 EDT 2004 | arcandspark
The PCB's we are seeing the voids on are made of some material called Thermount, not FR4. The pads are very easily pulled off if any touch up or rework is done. The voids I am seeing are (hugh) 50% to 75% of the Solder Ball volume. The last new batch
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 17:47:05 EDT 2006 | davef
First, we expect voiding in imm silver to be similar to ENIG. We expect more voiding in OSP than other common solderability protection. Second, choosing a solder paste, which does not contain resins and activators that decompose at higher temperatu
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