Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 13 09:17:47 EST 2008 | scottp
The causes of voids are extremely paste dependent. I did a literature search a couple years ago and the papers all disagreed with each other - one would say turn knob "A" to the right and the next would tell you to turn it to the left. I did my own
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 06 08:09:57 EDT 2008 | davef
We agree that the squigglie part of the section of the BGA ball looks like something other than 'hot tear.' We'd guess that it is an inclusion, but it could be a sectioning defect, as you say. We agree that the majority of occurances of hot tear are
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 30 10:29:48 EST 2009 | petep
We have a potential new customer who has special PCB requirements. I do not know a lot of details at this point, but have several questions. One of their assemblies has within it , a MID, Solid foil layer, completely isolating one side of the PCB f
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 10 15:15:17 EDT 2009 | indity
I have very little knowledge of pick and place machines or assembly, and was hoping someone could give me some advice of where to start looking. I do learn quickly so I am not afraid of challenges or learning through mistakes. I need to produce abou
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 09 07:21:02 EST 2009 | CL
Good Morning, I have seen many posts regarding BGA voiding being excessive and what can be done to better the condition. I have a customer that has an assembly that we have had a diufficult time with. We have spent a lot of time debugging the proces
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 13 08:27:43 EST 2009 | herman
Your customer is very unreasonable to demand void-free BGA SJs. Minor voiding is not a condition for rejection per IPC-A-610D, J-STD-001D, or even J-STD-001DS (Space addendum). Having said that, let me tell you that the voiding has little or nothing
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 19 15:45:21 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Thanks to all for your input. We did have a third party do an analysis on boards from the first shop. They were shipped directly from the board shop to eliminate the possibility that we could contaminate them. The third party (Forsite) did find Sili
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 13 07:20:10 EDT 2011 | scottp
It's more likely the warp is due to material issues. I've spent way more time than I'd care to admit running Thermoire with various profiles and there's pretty much nothing you can do to reduce warp via profile unless your current profile is truly a
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 04 07:58:50 EDT 2014 | philc
Many thanks for the (very) useful and honest answer. I had thought that £1000 was too little, but we don't have a local supplier, so have to rely on internet descriptions. There appears to be many machines out there described as "BGA replacement mach
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 05 09:15:36 EDT 2014 | rgduval
Hi, Edri, It's not uncommon for PCB fab houses to change pad sizes like that, due to design constraints....however, it always aggravates me when they do it without checking with me first. In my mind, that's the first sign of potential bad issues wi
