Ironwood Electronics On-Line Catalog

BGA PROBING SYSTEMS

Ironwood leads the industry in BGA probing systems. Most of our BGA probing systems are modular. We have developed probing adapters for 0.75mm pitch BGA packages. Some of our BGA probing adaptors incorporate our own high performance GHz BGA sockets.

Go to the Component Descriptions section.
Go to the Part Selection Instructions section.
Go to the part selection tables for BGA Probe Boards.
Go to the part selection tables for Surface Mount Feet.
Go to the part selection tables for ZIF sockets (chip carriers).
Go to the part selection tables for BGA land socket chip carriers.

CSP BGA Probing Systems

.75mm BGA Probing Adapter (click for pic)

Pictured to the right is one of our ground breaking 0.75mm pitch BGA probing adapters. This adapter incorporates one of our own GHzBGA sockets.

Modular BGA Probing Systems

BGA Modular Probing System (click for pic)

Most of our BGA probing systems are modular and are called "carrier adapters". Typically, a carrier adaptor system uses a BGA emulator base adaptor, a probe board, and a choice of socket interfaces ranging from an SMT "land socket" to an industry standard ZIF socket.

BGA Modular Probing System

The drawing to the right indicates some of the possibile configurations of our modular BGA probing system. The pluggable connections are gold plated throughout.

The individual components must be ordered separately.
The following part information is available below:

BGA Probe Boards.
Surface Mount Feet
ZIF sockets (chip carriers)
BGA land sockets (chip carriers)

A suggested part selection process:

Use Appendix A to determine the Ironwood package code that matches your BGA device.
Using the Search Menu feature of the on-line catalog, search by "Package" , entering "BGA", pitch, and pin count.
In the resulting table, find the probe board (PB) part that has the package code determined in Step 1.
The probe board (PB) part entry lists all of the parts compatible for this package.
Individually select the desired components (including the probe board) and add to the Shopping Cart.
When ready, "Check Out"

Component Descriptions

Surface Mount Feet (SM): Our BGA surface mount "feet" are easily soldered to the target system and present a pluggable interface to the other parts in the modular BGA probing system. Select here for a complete description of our surface mount package emulation capbilities.

Probe Boards (PB): The headers, or test points, on our probe boards come in three spacings, which is indicated by a letter (A, B, or C) in the part number.

The typical probe board presents an upper interface that accepts an industry standard ZIF socket or one of our compatible land sockets.

The bottom interface on the typical probe board plugs into a compatible surface mount foot part.

ZIF Sockets (SK): We use industry standard BGA ZIF sockets, in open top (OT), open top with lever (OTL), or clam shell (CS) variations.

BGA Land Sockets (LS): Our BGA land sockets provide surface mount lands for an IC device. The bottom interface is a female pluggable interface that can plug into compatible surface mount feet or probe boards. Select here for a complete description BGA land sockets.