Semiconductor Engineering

Comparison Of State-Of-The-Art Models For Socket Pin Defect Detection

This article is adapted from a presentation at TestConX, March 5-8, 2023, Mesa, AZ, by Vijayakumar Thangamariappan, Nidhi Agrawal, Jason Kim, Constantinos Xanthopoulos, Ira Leventhal, and Ken Butler, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Enhancing Test Socket Performance Through Application-Specific Validation And System-Level Per-Pin OQC

As semiconductor devices continue to advance, the demand for reliable, high-performance test sockets has never been greater. Yet, traditional socket design validation methods—such as per-pin ...
EDN

Spring Pin Sockets

The Spring Pin Socket line allows very high endurance and wide temperature range testing of BGA and QFN IC's on the same footprint as our other technology sockets for the same IC. This allows ...
Electronic Design

Stamped spring pin socket for 0.8mm pitch Infineon’s LFBGA

Ironwood Electronics recently introduced a new socket addressing high performance requirements for burn-in and test applications—SBT-BGA-6553. The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 31 gram ...