Most Hackaday readers will be a pretty dab hand with a soldering iron. We can assemble surface-mount boards, SOICs and TSSOPs are a doddle, 0402s we take in our stride, and we laugh in the face of ...

[Colin] uses some spare boards to lock the target board down to his bench and then uses a custom stencil and solder paste to prep the board. Once he has the solder paste on, he places the components ...

BGA soldering is very reliable if done using the correct procedure, so we introduce GA Soldering on PCB board, BGA Inspection and BGA Rework. According to different packaging materials, BGA components ...

Constructed with a high-temperature RoHS-compliant glass-reinforced material, a BGA-to-BGA adapter resolves soldering issues that arise when devices with RoHS-compliant BGA solder balls are mated with ...

This is somewhat Mac related, but I think it's more of a chip issue (esp on factory-assembled boards), so I figured I'd post here. Basically, I'm having repeated failures of an ATI 4850 graphics card ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spirit Electronics, a value-added microelectronics distributor, is rolling out additional capacity for its automated BGA reballing service. Spirit’s high-efficiency ...

Can unleaded BGA solder balls potentially grow tin whiskers as tin plated leads do? Annealing seems to be the standard approach for pure tin plated lead devices, but what about BGAs? Are unleaded BGA ...

Shenmao Technology has expanded its production capacity of ball-grid array (BGA) solder spheres, its main product line, by 70% to meet orders from new clients, according to the company. Save my User ...