Extreme Soldering: You Can Do BGA

Presented at ToorCamp 2014, July 12, 2014, 3 p.m. (50 minutes).

Long ago, folks building circuit boards started out with UV lights, copper clad boards and resist pens. Now double sided PCBs are cheap and quick to order, with 4-layer boards very quickly approaching the same.

This opens up opportunities to use denser chip packages such as QFN and BGA (Ball grid array).

Dismissed by many as "too hard", "scary" or just simply too involved, designing boards with BGAs on them isn't as hard as you'd think. Various aspects of design, assembly, and rework will be covered. If you design boards but haven't used BGA parts yet and don't know what "dogbone" or "ballout" mean, you should gain something from this talk.


Presenters:

  • marshallh
    Marshall likes building hardware. Recently he designs and sells various products and tools mostly related to retro gaming hardware. An unapologetic Altera fanboy, he's currently writing FPGA IP cores for Mike Ossmann's latest projects.

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