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IC Socket Footprint – Why is it important?

An IC socket can be defined as an electromechanical device, which provides a removable interface between the IC package and the system circuit board with minimal effect on signal integrity. A ...
New Electronics

Users can socket their BGA IC's with socket whose footprint same as IC footprint

BGA socket adapter provide an inexpensive and reliable interconnect for attaching BGA chips to target board. These adapters have less than half of the insertion force of competitive adapters, shorter ...
Electronic Design

0.8-mm-Pitch Flash-Memory Socket Adapter Has Same Footprint As IC

Users will be able to socket 48-pin EN29LV800C flash-memory BGA ICs with a socket that has the same footprint as an IC. Users will be able to socket 48-pin EN29LV800C flash-memory BGA ICs with a ...
Electronic Design

September Tech Focus: Maximizing connections

Serving the role of connecting a device and its tester, test sockets—also known as package probes—play a crucial interconnect role in integrated circuits (IC), and therefore the greater field of ...
Electronics Weekly

Test socket with less cross-talk for 350μm pitch ICs

Smiths Interconnect has created an IC test socket for high-speed testing of 350μm minimum pitch devices. Smiths Interconnect has created an IC test socket for high-speed testing of 350μm minimum pitch ...