-
- News
- Books
Featured Books
- smt007 Magazine
Latest Issues
Current IssueComing to Terms With AI
In this issue, we examine the profound effect artificial intelligence and machine learning are having on manufacturing and business processes. We follow technology, innovation, and money as automation becomes the new key indicator of growth in our industry.
Box Build
One trend is to add box build and final assembly to your product offering. In this issue, we explore the opportunities and risks of adding system assembly to your service portfolio.
IPC APEX EXPO 2024 Pre-show
This month’s issue devotes its pages to a comprehensive preview of the IPC APEX EXPO 2024 event. Whether your role is technical or business, if you're new-to-the-industry or seasoned veteran, you'll find value throughout this program.
- Articles
- Columns
Search Console
- Links
- Events
||| MENU - smt007 Magazine
Multitest Expands Contactor Portfolio for WLP / WLCSP Testing
January 13, 2016 | MultitestEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
Multitest’s Mercury 030 probe meets the increasing demand for cost-efficient high performance WLP / WLCSP contacting solutions. The Mercury 030 is designed to address the electrical requirements of today's test challenges, without sacrificing mechanical performance in an automated test environment. The Mercury 030 is a WLCSP fine pitch probe made using a Multitest proprietary process that produces a long life, high strength probe with gold plating. For high reliability, stability, and very low contact resistance contacting, the Mercury 030 has two flat surfaces moving in surface-to-surface contact.
While electrical and cost benefits are turning WLP and WLCSP into the “go-to” packaging of choice, traditional wafer probe technology can prevent customers from testing the device in a WLP package to published specification. The low RLC parasitics of the Mercury 030 make it a preferred contacting solution for customers who want to fully test wafer level packaged devices in the DC, functional, and AC parametric domains.
The Mercury 030 probe geometry and components provide high bandpass (8 GHz @-1 dB insertion loss) and low resistance (160 mΩ). The Mercury 030 ensures required probing coplanarity matching the vertical heights of the customers’ WLCSP balls and/or lands. With a 0.33 mm window of compliance and low insertion force, the Mercury 030 is well qualified for both singulated and multisite WLP and WLCSP contacting and/or probing.
During customer field tests, the Mercury 030 demonstrated long run times between cleaning with an average probe replacement life of 300K -500K device contacts.
Particularly valued in a high volume environment, the Mercury 030 is easy to setup and to maintain.
Bert Brost, Product Manager at Xcerra’s Interface Product Group explains: “Although the Mercury 030 can cost less than traditional probe technology, its ease of use, ease of maintenance, and high performance attributes directly address customer test requirements. With this new contacting solution we are supporting our customers’ efforts to reduce costs and improve throughput. The Mercury 030 is the result of Multitest spring probe development experience, integrating proven technology that is of greater value to the customer than products offered by the competition.”
About Multitest
Multitest (headquartered in Rosenheim, Germany) is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductor material handling equipment and interfaces for the testing and calibration of semiconductors and sensors. Multitest markets a broad portfolio of innovative and performance driven test handlers and contactors. Multitest has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, providing solutions to the automotive, consumer, communication, and sensor markets. Multitest is a company of Xcerra™ Corporation, which provides capital equipment, interface products, and services to the semiconductor, industrial, and electronics manufacturing industries. Xcerra Corporation offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and technologies, and a global network of strategically deployed applications and support resources.
Suggested Items
Real Time with… IPC APEX EXPO 2024: Circuit Board Testing Strategies and the Impact of AI
05/08/2024 |Editor Marcy LaRont speaks with Bert Horner, president of The Test Connection, about the importance of strategic planning and design-for-test (DFT). Bert touches on some common mistakes that occur when DFT is not adequately considered early on. The discussion outlines an overarching industry need for a culture shift toward increasingly higher levels of integration and collaboration. Bert mentions that AI now has an influence on testing, as everywhere else, and announces his forthcoming book.
Real Time with… IPC APEX EXPO 2024: Understanding Objective Evidence in Manufacturing Processes
05/07/2024 | Real Time with...IPC APEX EXPOGraham Naisbitt explains the importance of objective evidence in manufacturing processes, debunking the common misconception that the ROSE test is a cleanliness test. He also discusses the introduction of Rev J, a requirement for measuring ionic contamination on circuit assemblies, and the challenges in accurately measuring contamination. Alternative methods like ion chromatography and the need for updating standards like the ROSE test are mentioned.
U.S. Air Force Secretary Kendall Flies in AI-Piloted X-62A VISTA
05/06/2024 | Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin Skunk Works joined the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and other government and industry partners in hosting U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall to fly in the X-62A Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft (VISTA), a one-of-a-kind aircraft modified to test artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy capabilities.
Real Time with… IPC APEX EXPO 2024: Software Solutions for Circuit Board Challenges
05/03/2024 | Real Time with...IPC APEX EXPONolan Johnson speaks with Will Webb from Aster Technologies about their software solutions for design teams, manufacturing, test engineers, and process engineers. Aster's software addresses the increasing complexities of circuit boards and the need for alternative testing methods.
Manta Ray UUV Prototype Completes In-Water Testing
05/02/2024 | DARPAThe Manta Ray prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) built by performer Northrop Grumman completed full-scale, in-water testing off the coast of Southern California in February and March 2024.