Very nice,
Until you consider that ENIG infringes the design rules for at least one of
the top 3 global CM's due to the issues associated with it.
If you want the number of their chief technologist who has to look at enigma
failures week in week out I will happily supply details off line.
I personally have built hundreds of thousands of assemblies on ENIG as well
as Immersion AG.
As for the rest, HASL is generally failure related to a complete lack of
understanding of tin thickness and intermetallic growth rate, OSP failures
generally are related to not understanding the degradation of that finish
with multiple reflow cycling, and personally I would never use immersion tin
without some type of diffusion barrier between it and the copper if nay time
in storage was to be considered.
The ENIG when it fails can be catastrophic............and in most cases can
be pointed back to the process at the fab house rather than what happened to
it during the assembly process, unlike most of the other finish defects, and
has to my knowledge resulted in multi million dollar lawsuits between
companies in the bay area due to failures.
If it doesn't fail - it is fine, but the joint shear strength is less than
the equivalent HASL or immersion AG finish due to the Tin nickel/nickel
copper crystalline structure, so taking into consideration the higher
temperatures of lead free I would be vary careful using it for area array
packages using this soldering technology.
For the record have been using immersion silver since 1996 as I produced the
first beta site production runs using alpha level, so perhaps my views have
a little more history.
Call me opinionated - I'll take it.
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hodge [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:44 AM
To: TechNet E-Mail Forum; John Burke
Subject: Re: <Misc>Re: [TN] RoHs board surface recommendations.
John, come on now. Anything can happen at any time. I have seen some
reservations from the IS users as to silver migration possibilities and
shelf life/handling issues --you might say they have not seen them --"yet".
I have had more problems with HASL, OSP and IT than I have with ENIG. ENIG
has longer data history than IS, so both shoes have already dropped so to
speak. Three years without problems, is an eternity in this business,
especially when we are expected to build custom products in 24 hours.
At 11:00 AM 08/11/2005, you wrote:
>with it............YET..........
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Edwin Louis
>Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:48 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [TN] RoHs board surface recommendations.
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>
>We have been using ENIG now for about three years and have had no bad
>experiences with it. NASA for one does not allow the use of silver .
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner Engelmaier
>Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:57 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [TN] RoHs board surface recommendations.
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>Hi Steve,
>I do not know about "bad-mouth ENIG"--I am a reliability consultant, and
>have
>had plenty of calls because of ENIG related failures, but not a one about
>iAg. On the other hand, I do not know about their respective environmental
>implications.
>
>Regards,
>Werner Engelmaier
>Engelmaier Associates, L.C.
>Electronic Packaging, Interconnection and Reliability Consulting
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