EDN

LTE modems come in small LGA packages

This product is featured in EDN's Hot 100 products of 2015. See all 100 here. Swiss manufacturer u-blox offers LTE low-date-rate cellular modules supporting LTE Cat 1 for IoT and M2M designs in the ...
EDN

Actel introduces LGA packaging option for rad-tolerant FPGAs

SAN FRANCISCO — Actel Corp. said Thursday (July 7) that it has expanded its package selection to include a land grid array (LGA) option for its RTAX-S field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family.
Design-Reuse

Actel Introduces Land Grid Array Packaging Option for Radiation-Tolerant RTAX-S FPGA Family

Low-Profile Package Provides Enhanced Performance and Flexibility for Mission-Critical Military and Aerospace Designs MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire ...
Electronic Design

3 A Step-Down, Switch-Mode Regulator Squeezes Into Ultra-Thin LGA Package

Fig. 1. The LTM4623 is housed in a 1.82mm LGA package. Fig. 2. The package contains the switching controller, power FETs, magnetics and support components. Fig. 3. Simplified block diagram of the ...
Electronic Design

Managing Board Design For LGA Power Converters

As some of the newer dc-dc point-of-load (POL) converters are packaged into smaller and smaller surface-mount packages, thermal and electrical layout is becoming critical. One of the packages that ...
ZDNet

Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs

Yesterday, a report emerged claiming that Intel is planning to release its upcoming 14-nanometer Broadwell architecture processors as a ball grid array (BGA) rather than an land grid array (LGA) ...
eTeknix

Intel’s Haswell To Ship In Three BGA Packages

There has been much speculation in the industry about whether Intel will stop making LGA package processors in favour of BGA package processors. Well, this speculation may have some traction in the ...