Sunday, November 21, 2010 8:08 AM
Package-on-Package Benefits for Compact Medical Design
By John Koon and Michael Rodriquez
The compact design of medical devices has many benefits including the availability of patient home care devices such as portable blood pressure and other vital-sign monitoring devices. Electronic component sizes are becoming smaller and smaller and the latest packaging technology, Package-on-Package, enables miniature designs that will allow designers and developers to add more technological features to products within the same limited space. PoP will thus play an important role in component reliability and compact design for medical devices in the years to come.
Electronic component sizes are becoming smaller and smaller. With the help of automatic Surface Mount Technology (SMT) equipment, components as small as 0.2 mm x 0.4 mm (spec. 01005) can be assembled on a printed circuit board. Additionally, multi-layer PCBs enable components to be mounted on both sides. The latest packaging technology, Package-on-Package (PoP), takes compact design to another level. Using PoP enables miniature designs that will allow designers and developers to ad more...
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