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SMT Express, Volume 2, Issue No. 2 - from SMTnet.com
Volume 2, Issue No. 2 Thursday, February 17, 2000
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Featured Articles

Packaging
Reliability Assessment of a Thin (Flex) BGA Using a Polyimide Tape Substrate
Trent Thompson, Armando Carrasco and Andrew Mawer, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, Austin, Texas
Wireless communication customers require thinner, smaller footprint packaging to allow for reductions in phone and paging product sizes. Currently, the thin MAP (Mold Array Process) BGA (Ball Grid Array) package is in production which converted from glob-top BGA to reduce the overall package profile from 1.60 to 1.30 mm. The limitations of the MAP BGA is substrate routing on finer geometries or more dense designs and meeting the overall package thickness requirement (1.10 mm max. before collapse). In addition, major issues were experienced with the manufacturing of the thin MAP BGA package due to substrate warpage. The fleXBGA™ package is a thin package that uses polyimide tape as a substrate to reduce the overall package profile to 1.10 mm. This paper will review results received from the evaluation of this new package as compared to the thin MAP BGA currently in production. This report discusses how the substrate processing issues were addressed in thin MAP BGA and on the flex BGA ...
Trends
Trends in Electronic Products and Placement Equipment
by Kevin Towle, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
The trend in electronic products is towards smaller, faster, lighter assemblies with ever-increasing levels of functionality. In order to meet these demands, the product must be designed with leading edge component technology and assembled with state of the art manufacturing equipment. Component technology development is driven by miniaturization and integration. The components are getting smaller while the functionality is increasing.

In the future, the circuit board and the components will converge. The discrete components will be integrated into the inner layer of the circuit board and silicon microcircuits or dies will be bonded directly to the substrate of the board. Electronic products that are the size of a lunch box will be reduced to a size that will fit into your pocket.


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What's Happening in the Industry
SMT Process Engineer Anaheim, CA
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer Redmond, WA
SMT Technician Oviedo, FL
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf to Keynote APEX
IPC -- Association Connecting Electronics Industries has announced that General H. Norman Schwarzkopf will deliver the keynote address for the IPC SMEMA Council Electronics Assembly Process Exhibition ...
U.S. Department of Commerce Selects NEPCON West 2001 for the International Buyer Program
Buzz Aldrin to Deliver Opening Keynote Address at NEPCON West 2000

Upcoming EventsCalendar of Events

NEPCON West 2000 Anaheim, California Feb. 27 - Mar. 2
Scan-Tech Asia 2000 Singapore Mar. 1-3
APEX 2000 Long Beach, CA Mar. 14-16

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