Hi Phil: The users' enviornment should be similar among the products using this ASIC. But even if these failure boards were subject to extremes temperatures, why would only 1 out of 272 balls experiences the cracking phenomenon? At this point I also cannot say that it is related to the process because only 0.02 % or less of the units failed in the field, and the these units are not from the same lot. Thanks for replying to my email Rudolph Yu ------Original Message------ From: Phil Crepeau <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: March 28, 2001 5:17:10 PM GMT Subject: Re: [TN] BGA crack- major headache hi, have you checked to see if this particular product is exposed to temperature extremes that your other products using this bga do not see? phil -----Original Message----- From: Rudolph Yu [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:48 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] BGA crack- major headache Here are the facts: PBGA-272 balls FR4 with HASL finishes 8 layers The failure point always happens at the same I/O which is the 2nd last ball of the top outmost row of the package. It is not located near the edge of the board or any breakaway point. Failure mode Micro fracture found near the intermetallic layer between the BGA package and the solder ball attached to it. Around 0.001% of the products we built failed in the field because of this. None of these were caught during the ICT or Functional test. The same ASIC is also used on several other Products and have never seen an issue like this. Somehow this failure mode with this ASIC only occurs in one particular product /design. The ASIC / fab lot-related , ICT pin interference, stress by the breakaway tab, and stencil cleanliness assumptions had already ruled out after a controlled lot was built few weeks back. All boards passed the tests. But now some boards started failing in the field. Why the crack always happen to one single location(ball) with the same product we built?? We have run out all the possibilities that we can think of. I hope all the experts in TechNet can share their opinions on this. Customer kept asking for the root cause analysis. Right now we just cannot came up with a reasonable one. Thanks Rudolph Yu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------