Peter, assuming that you are manufacturing with via in pad, then I think you are misallocating your space. Check with your board fab and assembly houses, but what you propose doesn't sound like it will result in very good yields. Steve. At 06:12 PM 6/16/2005 +0800, Pang Ning wrote: >Dear Expert, >I encountered a problem about BGA pad size in PCB. The actual ball size is >0.6mm, and ball pitch is 1.0mm. We plan to route two 5mil traces between >two adjacent pads, and reserve over 5mil spacing for trace/trace, >trace/pad(or via). But in this way the BGA pad size in PCB will be only 14mil. > >I'm wondering if 14mil BGA pad is too small for mass production. Is there >any paper that demonstrates the guideline for BGA ball size vs. minimum >pad size in PCB? Can anyone provide me the linkage for the paper? Thanks >in advance! > >Best Regards, >Peter Pang >------------------------------------------------------------------ >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 FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > >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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ 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