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 ...

NEOTech, a leading provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), design engineering, and supply chain solutions in the high-tech industrial, medical device, and aerospace/defense markets, is ...

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 ...

The growing amount of electronics within modern vehicles has made the inspection process for wire bonds increasingly challenging, as active devices shrink and bonds are arranged in complex ways.

NEOTech, a leading provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), design engineering, and supply chain solutions in the high-tech industrial, medical device, and aerospace/defense markets, ...

A recently developed software tool automatically checks for design-rule violations as locations are designated for wire bonds between die and package lead frames. Known as the Post-Layout Bond Tool, ...