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Amol,



Probably the only other choice you have is to grind off the package gradually and inspect the underfill coverage.



Regards,



Vladimir



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Date:         Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:30:22 

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Subject: Re: [TN] Acoustic Microscopy for Under fill Coverage





Guys, thank you for all the interest in the subject. Lots of good information indeed. Yes, I did talk to Sonoscan and they pretty much corroborated what most people here are saying in that there are too many interfering layers to effectively look at underfill coverage and any voids or dewetting to the board/component surface.



So let me ask this...HOW CAN I look at a underfilled BGA and determine how good/bad my process for underfilling them is? (I am setting up a new process for manually underfilling BGAs). I want to determine if the underfilling technique used is consistently producing good results across BGAs and if the board cleanliness level is sufficient to ensure complete wetting and spread underneath the BGA. I am working with test vehicle now, but the actual boards will be used in a shock application. Any established standards (formal or informal) out there? The bottom line is that I need to be able to show the customer that the process produces underfilled BGAs with minimal voiding and dewetting.



Werner, are the critical areas (i.e. the corners) the same for shock/vibe as for more gradual stresses on a BGA?



Thanks,

Amol



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Hi Werner -- there have been a number of examples in which a component 

construction interaction of a "partial underfill" has resulted in 

increased degradation of the solder joint integrity in comparison to a 

"complete underfill" case.



Dave







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 Hi Guys,

The premise of the original question was by inference that completeness of 

the underfill coverage is necessary.

Would not be an underfill 'ring' covering the first 5 or so 'SJ squares' 

accomplish what is desired?better reliability? That would make this 

discussion academic.

Werner





 





 



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C-SAM does do a beautiful work on flip-chip packages and of cause not in 

the 

transmission mode.



Regards,



Vladimir

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Date:         Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:30:36 

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Hi Bev - I have attempted to use Acoustic Microscopy for underfill 

coverage on BGAs and as other folks have detailed, the number of 

interfaces and structures cause significant signal reflection problems 

making analysis very difficult. Some specific focused interface 

examination efforts can be conducted but are still very difficult to 

analyze.



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John and others,

But wouldn't it be even worse trying to use transmission mode because of 

the nature if the circuit board underneath the component (copper 

barrier(s), glass fiber bundles and epoxy?



Nobody from Sonotek or Sonoscan on TechNet?

Bev



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Sent: Mon Sep 21 18:00:16 2009

Subject: RE: [TN] Acoustic Microscopy for Under fill Coverage





 Not a discontinuity as such just an interface, and you are right, the

signal reflections will be from every interface, so for a BGA (without a

lid) the interfaces will be as follows:



1    Liquid to top of package molding compound

2    Molding compound to silicon

3    Silicon to die attach

4    Die attach to substrate

5    4 or so interfaces in the substrate itself (copper to substrate

pre-preg)

6    Substrate to under fill (or NOT!)



Depending of the acoustic impedance between the Material travelling

from/Material travelling to, more or less ultrasound energy will be

reflected at each of the interfaces.



Of the layers above I believe that the strongest reflection will be from

level 6 above.



It is 30 years since I last played with non destruct testing using

ultrasonics, but I would bet from my experiences then that you would do 

far

better using through transmission for this scenar

io rather than reflected

signals due to Bev's comment, particularly due to the substrate interface

reflections masking the ones between the package and the under fill.





John Burke

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Since when can an acoustic signal punch through a BGA?  I know you can do 

if

for flip chips, but aren't there too many density discontinuities for CSPs

abd BGAs?

Bev



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Anybody know a good lab in the North East that does acoustic microscopy? I

need to verify under fill coverage under BGAs.



Thanks,

Amol











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