ENSURING QUALITY AND RELIABILITY IN SMT DESIGNS.

Manufacturing and test engineers at Integrated Measurement Systems have solved manufacturability and testability problems that often plague surface-mount design. The IMS surface-mount boards were completed in six months. The IMS product philosophy stresses high reliability. Test engineers were included in the project team from its inception to ensure that the surface-mount boards could be fully tested. The boards are manufacturable and testable. The surface-mount boards are used in programmable driver and receiver pods for IMS' Logic Master integrated VLSI verification system. The Logic Master is used to verify and debug prototype application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Quality and reliability of surface-mount assemblies are determined by proper pad design, component density, test node accessibility and material selection.