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News Release from: Schmartboard | Subject: Schmartboard BGA boards
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2006
Boards answer BGA prototyping problems
Schmartboard's long-awaited line of BGA boards will become available in May.
Schmartboard, the developer of a new technology that has significantly simplified the creation of electronic circuits for hobbyists and electronic engineers, has announced that its long-awaited line of BGA boards will become available in May This is the latest addition to the Schmartboard-ez line that makes hand soldering surface mount components fast and easy
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Few options are currently available to someone that needs to prototype a circuit with a BGA.
Users can either create a custom PCB, or they can use prototyping boards that will require a socket for the BGA, which can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
The Schmartboard BGA boards, when used within the Schmartboard-ez prototyping system, are a fast, easy and inexpensive alternative for this problem.
Schmartboard will make the first BGA boards available on 3rd May 2006 at the Electronic Distribution Show and Conference (EDS) in Las Vegas.
Live demos will be held on Booth 4705.
Each board has the flexibility to handle the smallest BGA up to 400 balls.
These 10 layer boards are lead free and will support 0.8, 1.0 and 1.27mm pitches.
The BGA boards, which will have a suggested retail price of $44.99, are the latest in this new family of prototyping boards that make hand soldering surface mount components easy.
Other chips packages that are currently supported by this technology are SO, QFP, PLCC, chip scale and discrete components.
The BGA boards will be physically connectable to existing Schmartboards using the SchmartBridge.
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