Drop Test for Electroless Nickel Electroless Palladium Immersion Gold (ENEPIG) Surface Treatment Application That is Suitable to a Low-Cost, Fine Pitch and Easy Fabrication

Author(s):  
Junehyeon Ahn ◽  
Hongkwon Kim ◽  
Kangho Byun ◽  
Youngmin Lee ◽  
Donghoon Jang ◽  
...  

For an application of fine pitch Ball Grid Array (BGA) or Land Grid Array (LGA) packages, ENEPIG is a promising surface finish technology of low cost, fine pitch and easy fabrication. In this paper, we study the drop test, one of the most important items of hand held device reliability test, of ENEPIG surface finished packages. This paper focuses on the drop test performance of a bond between the main board and three kinds of packages. Those packages are designed with a daisy chain for a detection of open/short during the drop test. The main board has a bar type outline and is suitable for an In-Situ data acquisition. Drop tester is composed of a drop test unit, a high speed resistance meter and a data acquisition system (PC). JEDEC Condition B (1,500G and 0.5milliseconds duration time and half-sine pulse) in JESD22-B111 Table 1 or in JESD22-B104-C Table 1 is applied as a test condition. After the drop test, the joint geometry and the intermetallic compound (IMC) of failure samples are analyzed through the cross section method. The result shows no breaks at the solder joint of package side. All breaks, however, are originated from the solder joints of main board side. It is a significant outcome of this work to show no performance difference between ENEPIG and Electrolytic Ni/Au.

Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Laso Bayas ◽  
Linda See ◽  
Hedwig Bartl ◽  
Tobias Sturn ◽  
Mathias Karner ◽  
...  

There are many new land use and land cover (LULC) products emerging yet there is still a lack of in-situ data for training, validation, and change detection purposes. The LUCAS (Land Use Cover Area frame Sample) survey is one of the few authoritative in-situ field campaigns, which takes place every three years in European Union member countries. More recently, a study has considered whether citizen science and crowdsourcing could complement LUCAS survey data, e.g., through the FotoQuest Austria mobile app and crowdsourcing campaign. Although the data obtained from the campaign were promising when compared with authoritative LUCAS survey data, there were classes that were not well classified by the citizens, and the photographs submitted through the app were not always of sufficient quality. For this reason, in the latest FotoQuest Go Europe 2018 campaign, several improvements were made to the app to facilitate interaction with the citizens contributing and to improve their accuracy in LULC identification. In addition to extending the locations from Austria to Europe, a change detection component (comparing land cover in 2018 to the 2015 LUCAS photographs) was added, as well as an improved LC decision tree and a near real-time quality assurance system to provide feedback on the distance to the target location, the LULC classes chosen and the quality of the photographs. Another modification was the implementation of a monetary incentive scheme in which users received between 1 to 3 Euros for each successfully completed quest of sufficient quality. The purpose of this paper is to present these new features and to compare the results obtained by the citizens with authoritative LUCAS data from 2018 in terms of LULC and change in LC. We also compared the results between the FotoQuest campaigns in 2015 and 2018 and found a significant improvement in 2018, i.e., a much higher match of LC between FotoQuest Go Europe and LUCAS. Finally, we present the results from a user survey to discuss challenges encountered during the campaign and what further improvements could be made in the future, including better in-app navigation and offline maps, making FotoQuest a model for enabling the collection of large amounts of land cover data at a low cost.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 000379-000385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Sawyer ◽  
Yuya Suzuki ◽  
Zihan Wu ◽  
Hao Lu ◽  
Venky Sundaram ◽  
...  

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and characterization of a two-metal layer RDL structure at 40 um pitch on thin glass interposers. Such an RDL structure is targeted at 2.5D glass interposer packages to achieve up to 1 TB/s die-to-die bandwidth and off-interposer data rates greater than 400 Gb/s, driven by consumer demand of online services for mobile devices. Advanced packaging architectures including 2.5D and 3D interposers require fine line lithography beyond the capabilities of current organic package substrates. Although silicon interposers fabricated using back-end-of-line processes can achieve these RDL wiring densities, they suffer from high electrical loss and high cost. Organic interposers with high wiring densities have also been demonstrated recently using a single sided thin film process. This paper goes beyond silicon and organic interposers in demonstrating fine pitch RDL on glass interposers fabricated by low cost, double sided, and panel-scalable processes. The high modulus and smooth surface of glass helps to achieve lithographic pitch close to that of silicon. Furthermore, the low loss tangent of glass helps in reducing dielectric losses, thus improving high-speed signal propagation. A semi-additive process flow and projection excimer laser ablation was used to fabricate two-metal layer RDL structures and bare glass RDL layers. A minimum of 3 um lithography and 20 um mico-via pitch was achieved. High-frequency characterization of these RDL structures demonstrated single-ended insertion losses of −0.097 dB/mm at f = 1 GHz and differential insertion losses of −0.05 dB/mm at f = 14 GHz.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro Moreno ◽  
Alejandro González ◽  
José Luis Olazagoitia ◽  
Jordi Vinolas

This article presents a novel and reliable low-cost data acquisition solution for high frequency and real-time applications in vehicular dynamics. Data acquisition systems for highly dynamic systems based on low-cost platforms face different challenges such as a constrained data retrieval rate. Basic data reading functions in these platforms are inefficient and, when used, they limit electronics acquisition rate capabilities. This paper explains a new low-cost, modular and open platform to read different types of sensors at high speed rates. Conventional reading functions are avoided to speed up acquisition rate, but this negatively affects data reliability of the system. To solve this and exploit higher data managing rates, a number of custom secure layers are implemented to secure a reliable acquisition. This paper describes the new low-cost electronics developed for high rate acquisition applications and inspects its performance and robustness against the introduction of an increasing number of sensors connected to the board. In most cases, acquisition rates of the system are duplicated using this new solution.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Fiedler ◽  
M Taherishargh

Perlite–metal syntactic foam is a low-cost cellular metal intended for use in automotive impact protection. To test the viability of the material a 2.5 ton drop test was conducted. Impact mass and energy were selected to replicate the conditions of a frontal impact between a large passenger vehicle and a crash cushion. A hollow syntactic foam cylinder was manufactured to decelerate the drop weight in a controlled manner. Accelerometers and high-speed imaging were utilized to evaluate the performance of the energy absorbing element.


2015 ◽  
Vol 661 ◽  
pp. 121-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong Lin Lai ◽  
Wen Jung Chiang

The system in a package (SiP) including of a system on a chip (SoC) and a double-data-rate-three synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR3 SDRAM) were studied with respect to the high-speed characteristics. The SiP was the multi-chip-module thin-profile fine-pitch ball grid array (MCM TFBGA) package with four-layer substrate. The high-speed 1600-Mbps data rate DDR3 signals were used in the signal integrity (SI) analysis. The SiP with low-cost silver (Ag) wires displayed a 500.18-ps aperture width in the eye diagram, which was successfully achieved signal integrity (SI) performance requirement. This work demonstrated the SiP with the Ag wires was the great potential solution for the advanced high-speed product applications.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Bailey ◽  
Christian Moestl ◽  
Martin Reiss ◽  
Andreas Weiss ◽  
Ute Amerstorfer ◽  
...  

<p>STEREO-B and STEREO-A are both important proxies for potential solar wind monitors at the Sun-Earth L5 point. In this study, measurements from STEREO-B are used to determine how well the Dst index in particular can be predicted using data measured near the L5 point. This is useful for determining the geoeffectivity of storms resulting from high-speed solar wind streams. Observed solar wind speeds are first mapped to the near-Earth environment as if they had been measured at L1, and the Dst is predicted from the data using a solar wind-to-Dst model. We find that Dst predicted from L5 data performs better than a recurrence model assuming the solar wind conditions repeat every 27 days, although not as well as when predicted from L1 data. The newly developed approach is currently implemented in the PREDSTORM software package to provide a real-time Dst forecast using STEREO-A data.</p>


2016 ◽  
Vol 87 (8) ◽  
pp. 085101 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Becker ◽  
U. Popp ◽  
C. Greiner

2013 ◽  
Vol 332 ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Dorina Purcaru ◽  
Anca Purcaru

The interface presented in this paper performs a synchronized sampling of all eight common-mode or differential analog inputs with a high sampling rate. This is a low cost interface, entirely controlled by the PC104 CPU. The paper is focused on design and operation aspects of the synchronized analog-to-digital conversion module. This interface is recommended for high speed data acquisition systems and finds its utility in energetic systems, for monitoring the power quality and for recording different specific transient events. Some programmable electronic modules which perform analog and digital signal acquisition in energetic systems already contain a PC104 interface with synchronized sampling of analog inputs; some experimental results are also presented in this paper.


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