Hi, I have found the Paricon material great for R&D bench testing because this material works to high frequency like Scott Morrow mentioned for performance that is very similar to the final solder mounted part on a PCB footprint. The other huge advantage is that if you have a part that pulls significant current, the stacked column of silver plated balls can handle high current levels ( something close to 1 amp I believe) which means that if one powers up the device with out getting things perfectly aligned and only a single column instead of multiple columns are making the connection it does not melt the interconnect. I have used the verticle interconnect material based on fine wires and melted them making the material unuseable. The biggest issue with the Paricon material is in keeping it clean and keeping the mating surfaces planar since the thinner the Paricon interposer the closer one will get to the solder mounted performance. Good luck with the testing, Heidi -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of david stern Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:07 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] interconnection technology=20 Hi I was looking for interconnection technology for an application working at 5GHz to 10GHZ and and found the following link=20 http://www.paricon-tech.com/Pariposer%20Overview%202-11-04.pdf Did somebody used this technology at 5GHz or above? =20 How it effects SI issues? Thanks in advance David =20 [ =20 ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.net List archives are viewable at: =20 //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 =20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.net 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