Integrated Circuit, Hybrid, and Multichip Module Package Design Guidelines: A Focus on Reliability

Circuit designers, packaging engineers, printed board fabricators, and procurement personnel will find this book's microelectronic package design-for-reliability guidelines and approaches essential for achieving their life-cycle, cost-effectiveness, and on-time delivery goals.

Its uniquely organized, time-phased approach to design, development, qualification, manufacture, and in-service management shows you step-by-step how to:

• Define realistic system requirements in terms of mission profile, operating life, performance expectations, size, weight, and cost
• Define the system usage environment so that all operating, shipping, and storage conditions, including electrical, thermal, radiation, and mechanical loads, are assessed using realistic data
• Identify potential failure modes, sites, mechanisms, and architecture-stress interactions--PLUS appropriate measures you can take to reduce, eliminate, or accommodate expected failures
• Characterize materials and processes by the key controllable factors, such as types and levels of defects, variations in material properties and dimensions, and the manufacturing and assembly processes involved
• Use experiment, step-stress, and accelerated methods to ensure optimum design before production begins

Detailed design guidelines for substrate...wire and wire, tape automated, and flip-chip bonding...element attachment and case, lead, lead and lid seals--incorporating dimensional and geometric configurations of package elements, manufacturing and assembly conditions, materials selection, and loading conditions--round out this guide's comprehensive coverage. Detailed guidelines for substrate...wire and wire, tape automated, and flip-chip bonding...element attachment and case, lead, lead and lid seals--incorporating dimensional and geometric configurations of package elements, manufacturing and assembly conditions, materials selection, and loading conditions--round out this guide's comprehensive coverage.

DR. MICHAEL G. PECHT is a tenured faculty member with a joint appointment in Systems Research and Mechanical Engineering, and the Director of the CALCE Electronic Packaging Research Center at the University of Maryland. He has an MS in electrical engineering and an MS and PhD in engineering mechanics from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Professional Engineer and an IEEE Fellow. He serves on the board of advisors for various companies and was a West-inghouse Professor. He is the chief editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and a section editor for the Society of Automotive Engineering.