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BGA

Ball Grid Array. Leadless array packaging technology in which solder balls are mounted to the underside of the&nbsp...

BGA

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Bellows Contact

A connector contact which is a flat sprint folded to provide a uniform spring rate over the full tolerance ran...

Bellows Contact

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Bed-of-Nails

A method of PCB testing involving a fixture containing a field of spring-loaded pins that are co-ordinated with&nbs...

Bed-of-Nails

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BBT

Bare Board Test.

BBT

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Basic Wettability

The ease with which a metal or metal alloy can be wetted by molten solder.

Basic Wettability

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Base Solderability

The ease with which a metal or metal alloy surface can be wetted by molten solder under minimum realistic&nbsp...

Base Solderability

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Base Material

The insulating material (either rigid or flexible ) as well as the copper foils bonded on one or both sid...

Base Material

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Base Material Thickness

The thickness of the base material, excluding metal foil or material deposited on the surface.

Base Material Thickness

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Base Laminate

The substrate material upon which the conductive wiring pattern may be formed.

Base Laminate

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Base Copper

The original, thin copper foil present on one or both sides of a copper clad laminate. During PCB manufacture,...

Base Copper

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Barrel

The cylinder formed by plating through a drilled hole.

Barrel

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Bare Board

A PCB having all lines, pads and layers intact but without components installed. An unassembled PCB.

Bare Board

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Backpanel (Backplane)

see ”Mother Board”

Backpanel (Backplane)

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Backdriving

An in-circuit test procedure for digital circuitry.

Backdriving

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B&B

Blind and Buried via holes.

B&B

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B-stage Material

Laminate impregnated with a resin and cured to an intermediate stage (B-stage resin ). Normally designated as prepr...

B-stage Material

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Azeotrope

Two or more polar and non-polar solvents that behave when mixed as a single solvent to remove polar and n...

Azeotrope

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Axial Lead

A lead extending out the end and along the axis of a resistor, capacitor or other axial part rather than&...

Axial Lead

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AWG

American Wire Gauge. A method of specifying wire diameter; the higher the number, the smaller the diameter.

AWG

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Automatic Test Equipment

Hardware that automatically analyses functional or static parameters to evaluate performance degradation. It also performs fa...

Automatic Test Equipment