Has anyone tried just plugging without overplating? It is so little area that I can't imagine the lost soldering surface area will mean anything and it should be a lot cheaper and faster to plug than "vippo".
Wayne
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Kondner
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] QFN with solder slug
Julie,
What size vias are you filling and capping? You mention these are vias in pads, I would guess these are fairly small vias.
Do you have a picture of one of your QFN locations where you have used this process?
Thanks,
Bob K.
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julie Silk
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 1:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] QFN with solder slug
We use a lot of QFNs, and manufacture some for our own use. We have stopped using open vias -- no matter what the manufacturer says, the soldering is inconsistent and adding solder to compensate for wicking away can lead to the other issue of the ground pad lifting the part and causing opens. Overprinting the groundpad (or pinpads) can also lead to connection between ground pad and pin pad solder and siphoning of the pin pad solder into the groundpad joint, causing opens. We use the fill with epoxy and cap plate over method (which we call vippo, via in pad plated over). This adds to the cost of the board because there are additional drilling and plating steps, but we get consistent results, better quality and the heat transfer is better. We don't plate-shut , which I would guess is pretty specialized and expensive for thru vias. Dave's followup sounded more like vippo. We never use the cap one side method. We have reliability concerns with trapping acids in this blind hole. The issue with voids is another good one. Definitely fewer voids with the vippo method, but it can still be a problem. Optimization of the paste pattern and process help. We have not tried the design to vent via diagonal solder mask presenting in a paper at IPC2011. --Julie
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