April 2008

New PoP Package Lineup

New!

Triple Stack Package on Package and 15mm Dummy PoP Packages

Triple Stack Package on Package

Practical Components® is the exclusive supplier of Amkor Technology Dummy Components. Amkor offers the industry's broadest array of package formats and sizes, from traditional, "off-the-shelf" leadframe configurations to leading-edge chip scale, flip chip and system-in-package solutions incorporating highly customized designs. This allows Amkor to be a single source for many of our customers' total IC packaging requirements.

Practical Components is the worlds leading supplier of Dummy Components (mechanical samples), Test Boards and Training Kits.

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Amkor® has announced its new middle package that makes a Triple Stack PoP package (PSvfBGA). After the success of the Amkor® double stack PoP we have added a Package (POP) 12x12mm, 0.65mm to pitch Stacked Daisy Chain – 3 Package Stacking.

The Practical Dummy Component version is identical to the live package without the expensive die inside. PoP provides OEMs and EMS providers with a platform to cost effectively expand options for logic & memory 3D integration with the following benefits:

Greatly expands device options by simplifying the business logistics of stacking
Integration controlled at the system level to best match stacked combinations with system requirements
JEDEC standards ensure broad component availability
Eliminates margin stacking and expands technology reuse
Helps manage the huge cost impacts associated with increasing demand for multi-media processing and memory
Logic device transitions to flip chip in the bottom package enables further PoP size and height reductions

New!

15mm PoP

Due to demand for a larger body size for the PSvfBGA, Practical now has availability of a 15mm Dummy PoP.

Call your representative for more information. 714-252-0010

Part Number	I/O Count	Pitch	Body Size
A-PoP160-.65mm-15mm-DC	160 (top)	.65mm	15mm
A-PSvfBGA604-.5mm-15mm-DC	604 (bottom)	.5mm	15mm

Practical Supplying Tin–Lead Components

Practical Components continues to lead in Lead-Free Dummy Components and still supplies many package types in Tin-Lead versions.

Tin-Lead is useful in many process evaluation applications including Lead-free Tin-Lead comparative studies.

Tin-Lead is available in SOIC, PLCC, MLF, BGA and most other packages.

Why Practical Dummy Components?

Using Dummies saves money!

In cases where only mechanical characteristics are required, dummy components can be used instead of live, functioning components. Since there is no expensive die inside the package, the cost for performing mechanical testing is significantly lower.

A Practical Dummy Component is the exact mechanical equivalent of a live component used only when the physical properties of the components are required.

Our components are not cheap and inferior FR4 mock-ups. Practical Dummy Components are the exact same components, made on the same manufacturing lines as their live counterparts, but manufactured without the expensive die inside.

These components can cost as much as 80 percent less than live components, making the ideal for:

Testing of solder processes
Machine setup
Lead-free conversion
Thermal profiling
Solder training
Machine evaluation
Acceptance testing
Re-certification
Prototype design
Demonstrations.
CPK Studies (Machine and process capability coefficient)