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Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Jim Brown of GreenSource Fabrication joins to discuss microvia reliability issues that so many people struggle with. GreenSource has been making great strides in this direction so listen now to learn how they’ve handled microvia reliability.
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Show Highlights
- Introduction to Jim Brown and GreenSource Fabrication
- A Brief History of GreenSource—becoming an open market supplier of PCBs in two phases
- ”Make it as automated as possible”—How GreenSource eliminates yield issues
- ”A well known issue”—exploring anomalies arising from stacked microvias
- Challenges presented by laser-drilling vias
- Virtual Meeting with ICP on July 15th and 16th
- Accelerated testing and the most reliable way of determining microvia reliability
- IST vs OM tester, which is preferred and what do they do
- Why GreenSource committed to OM testing
- Where to learn more about Jim Brown and GreenSource
- Outro and goodbyes
Resources:
- Jim Brown on LinkedIn
- Greensource Fabrication Website
- June OnTrack Newsletter
- The IPC Warning About Microvia Reliability for High Performance Products an article by Happy Holden
- IPC Microvia Reliability Summit Webinar on July 15-16, 2020
- Microvia Reliability in Ultra-High Density Interconnect Designs