So if there's no maximum am I right in assuming an actual pitch of 2mm 
would be acceptable :-)?

In  my view there's no excuse for poorly toleranced drawings, either 
ones with excessively slack tolerances or with missing information. The 
manufacturer should hae Cpk data ofr their pitch measurements which will 
allow them to quote a realistic tolerance.

Regards,





Stadem, Richard D. wrote:
> While doing the laser ball attachment on other BGAs, the company that did it noted that there was up to a +- 3 mil deviation in the pitch in earlier revisions of various BGA substrate drawings, so we asked for a tighter spec for the center-to-center distance from the BGA substrate fabricators because the laser is very precise and it is faster when the machine does not have to autocorrect frequently. So instead of a standard 1mm [.040"] with no tolerance (as an example), it became 1mm [.040"] minimum to ensure no two pads were less than that from each other, center-to-center. It should not affect your stencil file, in fact it should help ensure your stencil artwork will be properly aligned by ensuring less of a stackup variation in the artwork, the pad locations on the BGA substrate, and the pad locations on the PWB substrate. This was carried over to other BGA fabricators as well. If you check other BGA drawings you will note the same wording. This is then flowed down to the PWB design requirements, provided the CID diligently notes the artwork requirements when specifying the BGA artwork on his/her PWB.
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> In working with some newer Intel BGA datasheets we
> Dear Technetters:
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> In working with some newer Intel BGA datasheets we are noting tht the pitch is indicated as a minimum dimension. For instance on a current job the spec indicates "Min 1mm". Has anyone else seen this trend? Explanations?
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> How are you acoomodating your stencil files?
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>  Bob Wettermann
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