Designed for nanometer-scale silicon ICs, a new wire-bond chip-packaging process–called Pad on I/O–by chip manufacturer LSI Logic (Milpitas, CA) places bond pads directly on active copper/low-K ...
IC Interconnect said its Ni/Au (nickel/gold) pad resurfacing process for automotive and other wire bond applications produces bonds that are stable at high temperatures despite having a thinner gold ...
Assembly houses are fine-tuning their methodologies and processes for automotive ICs, optimizing everything from inspection and metrology to data management in order to prevent escapes and reduce the ...
Adding more layers in packages is making it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to inspect wire bonds that are deep within the different layers. Wire bonds may seem like old technology, but it ...