Gigahertz socket adapter handles normal soldering

New from Ironwood Electronics, the LS-BGA-05 series is a low cost and reliable gigahertz socket adapter which needs mounting holes into conventional soldering options.

New from Ironwood Electronics, the LS-BGA-05 series is a low cost and reliable gigahertz socket adapter which needs mounting holes into conventional soldering options.

The adapter consists of machined phosphor bronze pins pressed into an FR4 wafer that has threaded inserts on four corners.

The adapter can be soldered to any through-hole pattern using conventional methods.

The Ironwood gigahertz socket can be mounted on to this adapter using the screws that mate into the threaded inserts.

The solder balls from IC package come in contact with the top end of the elastomer wire.

The bottom end of the elastomer wire contacts the metal pin in the adapter board.

The bottom side of the metal pin is connected to the target circuit board using through-hole soldering and thereby makes an electrical path for the signal.

If the target circuit board has an SMT pattern, an epoxy overmoulded Giga-Snap female socket receptacle is soldered to the target PCB using standard reflow soldering methods.

The LS-BGA-05 BGA adapter, to which the user attaches gigahertz socket with a BGA chip inside, is plugged into the female socket receptacle on the board, thereby the chip is interconnected and the system is ready to go.

The Giga-Snap female socket receptacles have the same solder ball types as the IC they are emulating.

The force to mate conventional adapters can exceed 8900N for a 2000-pin device.

The Giga-Snap BGA surface mount feet adapters require half the force (420N) for the 1936-pin device.

The sockets are available from Logic Technology.

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