1st Edition

The Electronic Packaging Handbook

Edited By Glenn R. Blackwell Copyright 2000

    The packaging of electronic devices and systems represents a significant challenge for product designers and managers. Performance, efficiency, cost considerations, dealing with the newer IC packaging technologies, and EMI/RFI issues all come into play. Thermal considerations at both the device and the systems level are also necessary.

    The Electronic Packaging Handbook, a new volume in the Electrical Engineering Handbook Series, provides essential factual information on the design, manufacturing, and testing of electronic devices and systems.

    Co-published with the IEEE, this is an ideal resource for engineers and technicians involved in any aspect of design, production, testing or packaging of electronic products, regardless of whether they are commercial or industrial in nature. Topics addressed include design automation, new IC packaging technologies, materials, testing, and safety.

    Electronics packaging continues to include expanding and evolving topics and technologies, as the demand for smaller, faster, and lighter products continues without signs of abatement. These demands mean that individuals in each of the specialty areas involved in electronics packaging-such as electronic, mechanical, and thermal designers, and manufacturing and test engineers-are all interdependent on each others knowledge. The Electronic Packaging Handbook elucidates these specialty areas and helps individuals broaden their knowledge base in this ever-growing field.

    Fundamentals of the Design Process
    Surface Mount Technology
    Integrated Circuit Packages
    Direct Chip Attach
    Circuit Boards
    EMC and PCB Design
    Hybrid Assemblies
    Interconnects
    Design for Test
    Adhesive and Its Application
    Thermal Management
    Testing
    Inspection
    Package/Enclosure
    Electronics Package Reliability and Failure Analysis: A Micromechanics-Based Approach
    Product Safety and Third-Party Certification
    Appendix A: Definitions
    Index

    Biography

    Glenn R. Blackwell

    "…highly recommended…enough detail…provides essential factural information on the design, manufacturing, and testing of electronic devices and systems…this book is primarily for engineers and technicians involved in any aspect of design, production, testing, or packaging of electronic products…The book ties together well with references between chapters…well written and edited…each chapter includes a section of bibliographic references and suggested readings."
    --Dave Fish, Pandion Electronics, Inc., SMTnet.com