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 | 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 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
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 30 09:26:04 EDT 2002 | itempea
Russ, first step would be to get IPC-7095 on BGAs. A few notes: There can be voids in solder balls, or at the solder joints to the BGA, or at the solder joints to the PCB. Various sources or reasons can be responsible for these voids. Voids can be
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 23 07:51:45 EDT 2009 | scottp
Every paper I've seen published shows that BGA voids either have no effect or actually give a slight improvement. The one exception are voids with a root cause in bad incoming boards, such as champagne voiding where nearly the entire interface is go
Electronics Forum | Wed May 19 17:43:25 EDT 2010 | pforister
Hello, I'm having problems with voiding on an assembly that has a GPS hybrid with balls much like a BGA. This is a RoHS assembly using no-clean solder (Kester EM907). The voids are at or above 25%. I use an 8 zone oven where I peak in zone 7 and
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