Hello, Can't keep my hands off the keyboard. I am not a assembly gal but I have heard that pallets are used to support them at the bottom to prevent them from falling regardless with or without heat sink. Regards, Wee Mei Harjeet Randhawa wrote: >Hi Jeff, > >No there r no heat sinks. But I doubt how will they prevent such big >device from falling/moving once getting RE-Reflowed. There is no place >to put even some glue below. > >Regards, >Harjeet. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Seeger [mailto:jseeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 >Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:15 PM >To: Harjeet Randhawa >Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: High IO 1mm Pitch FPGAs Top Bottom Board >Assembly > > >, > Harjeet, > > One major concern regards the weight of the FPGA package. > When the second side is assembled, the first side will be > reflowed too. If the package has a heatsink you may be in > for a rude awakening. By all means you need to have your > physical design group fully in touch with your fabrication, > assembly, and test resources. > > Best regards, >--=20 >=20 > Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc > Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879 > jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800 > offering pcb design, fabrication, and assembly services >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from si-list: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > >or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > >For help: >si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > >List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > >List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list >or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages >Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu