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We commonly receive requests to dismantle a socketed BGA and place the BGA component directly on the circuit board surface. We also receive requests to migrate a soldered component into a socket arrangement. The challenge with this rework is that, most often, the pads on the circuit board surface will need to be gold-plated. In this case, all 1000+ pads needed to be gold-plated ...
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I have a vintage computer board that is contaminated with what appears to be decomposed anti-static foam. The board has been in storage ...
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A new section, 10.0 Component Tinning Procedures, including fifteen new procedures, has been added to the popular online guidebook developed and written by Circuit Technology Center.
This free online guidebook now contains 115 step-by-step procedures focused on circuit board assembly, repair, rework, and modification, plus many procedures focused on electronic component tinning and reballing. Most procedures include illustrations, photographs, and videos and follow popular IPC standards ...
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Although soldering is one of the oldest known joining techniques, manual or hand soldering is still a process highly dependent upon individual operator skills. And while soldering and rework have become increasingly automated, we nevertheless operate in an imperfect world and defects...
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We are a step closer to a LEGO-like design for a stackable, reconfigurable artificial intelligence chip, comprising layers of sensing and processing elements ...
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"It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races."
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