One day [Andy] was cruising around eBay and spotted something interesting. Forty Virtex-E FPGAs for two quid each. These are the big boys of the FPGA world, with 512 user IO pins, almost 200,000 logic ...

Electronic devices continue to shrink in size with advancement in chip fabrication technology. Packaging technology has responded with improved formats to present these chips for assembly to PCBs.

This phrase, “ball soldering”, has been used to describe physical arrangements other than the one about to be described, but that's the phrase I'm going to use. However!! If the wires under discussion ...

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 ...

The physical characteristics of lead-free solder impose new defect types that test and inspection techniques must address. For example, lead-free solder's higher melting point and reduced wetting, ...

Are you just starting out with soldering and want to practice on a few cheap and easy projects? That’s exactly where I am in my microcontroller journey, and these are the simple projects I did first ...