Re: Recommendation for prototype CM (BGA reflow, mainly)


"larwe" <zwsdotcom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am considering building a very small custom PowerPC-based (MPC8241)
> SBC for something. I need a recommendation for a proto house that can,
> at a reasonable price, reflow these BGA parts onto a PCB for me. I
> don't want anything else stuffed, just this one part, since I need to
> bring up the rest of the board piece by piece. I'd probably only want
> three boards made this way. I don't plan to have a custom stencil made
> for the first run PCB so it would need to be done with one of those
> one-time disposable BGA stencils.

Tin-foil, a heat-gun and a sacrificial apprentice :-p

> There would be a possibility of very limited production (<1k pieces)
> but I'm more interested in the protos.
>
> Any names people can point me to? I can find a million places in google
> but have no way of judging them.

I've used Invotech for low volume production runs and they were mostly OK
with BGA and are a lot better now (I think we were used as guinea pigs.) If
you talk about approx 1K volumes you might be able to wangle two or three
development boards for free to prove their processes.


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