The electronics industry is seeing ever strong demands for increasing functionality and smaller and thinner form factors in end products. At the same time, there are continuing demands for lower costs, and these demands are only expected to get stronger with time.
The technologies used for mounting devices (packages) are critical for responding to these demands and a wide range of techniques and processes have been studied and applied.
As an example, figure 1.1 shows the technologies required in typical solder mounting. This chapter presents an overview of solder mounting methods (and equipment) and processes.