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Rex,

Have seen BGAs with balls separating from the substrate side...

Have seen the balls sitting in the trays for the devices...

My guess is that the BGA substrate has a Ni-Au surface finish...

The PCB side adhesion problems will sometime show up on the BGA substrate side for similar reasons...
If the balls you removed have no solder wetting to the BGA substrate and they are very smooth and light gray, I think you have a BGA substrate problem

You can partially confirm this by having the pads of BGAs you removed cleaned and re-tinned then reballed and reinstalled in the PCAs...

This works in most cases except when you have a bad chip...

Paul


Paul Edwards
Surface Art Engineering


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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rex Waygood
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:36 AM
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Subject: [TN] BGA Balls - Found word(s) remove list in the Text body

We have built a batch of pcbs for a customer who supplied the pcbs. They are 2mm thick 6 layer with 0.2mm vias and ENIG finish. None work fully, they work intermittently at best.

The customer was suspicious that we had not reflowed the BGAs correctly.

Our under BGA temp on a similar pcb is 245C (We now have some samples to profile correctly)

The customer is suspicious due to the comment on page 753 http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc6221.pdf
<http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc6221.pdf>  where it states a min of 250C

Close x-ray evaluation of the BGAs showed tear dropping along tracks, uniform balls, everything looked tickety boo.

We offered to remove a BGA to see what was happening underneath.

2 corners showed a similar issue with the ball where it separated from the BGA rather than the pcb.

The removal technique was to use a PDR IR rework station, under board heating to bring topside pcb temp to 170C and then a lead free reflow profile to bring the device up to reflow, manual removal.

I didn't have dye for dye and pry so thought this might show if there was an ENIG problem.

I was surprised by the almost complete removal of ball at the device and lack of evidence of solder.

Was this just caused by my investigation processes?

Was the ball device interface broken which prevented it from melting the ball?

Any other clues?

Thanks

Rex



Hopefully Steve has received the images (sorry about the size!)


Rex Waygood
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