Could this be true only of 63-37 or would lead-free SAC alloys also be
potentially guilty of causing soft errors?
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Subject: Help. Is this true??
Evidently regular solder has decaying Uranium in it, or somehow generates alpha
particles, which are being blamed for upsets. Some chips are moving to a
special “low alpha” solder internally to avoid this problem on bump-grid-arrays
in flipchip parts.
Mahendra Gandhi
SME - PWB Technologies
Aerospace Engineering
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