The author wishes to recognize the following
individuals for providing assistance:
- Bailey Cordell, Rey Javier, Steve
Kummerl, and Frank Mortan of Texas Instruments' Packaging Technology
Solutions, Dallas, for technical inputs and analysis of results.
- Andy Zhang, William Gifford, and Paul
Hull of Texas Instruments' Dallas Reliability Test Lab, Dallas, for PCB
design and board-level reliability test execution.
- Robert Milotta, Alison Stutzmann, and
Paul Talbot of Texas Instruments' Dallas Design Analysis Operation,
Dallas, for package imaging and solder joint measurements.
- Peter Nguyen of Chip Targets Inc,
Dallas, for package imaging and solder joint measurements.