Inspection method of BGA Ball Using 5-step Ring Illumination

Jong Hyeong Kim, Chanh D.Tr Nguyen

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Abstract

Fast inspection of solder ball bumps in ball grid array (BGA) is an important issue in the flip chip bonding technology. Particularly, semiconductor industry has required faster and more accurate inspection of micron-size solder bumps in flip chip bonding, as the density of balls increase dramatically. In this paper, we describe an inspection approach of BGA balls by using 5-step ring illumination device and normalized cross-correlation (NCC) method. The images of BGA ball by the illumination device show unique and distinguishable characteristic contours by their 3-D shapes, which are called as "iso-slope contours". Template images of reference ball samples can be produced artificially by the hybrid reflectance model and 3D data of balls. NCC values between test and template samples are very robust and reliable under well-structured condition. The 200 samples on real wafer are tested and show good practical feasibility of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1115-1121
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
Volume21
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2015

Keywords

  • 5-step ring illumination
  • BGA balls
  • Hybrid reflectance model
  • Iso-slope contour
  • Specular reflection

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