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11 years ago

No solder paste was applied on Thermal Pad for AGND. What would this do?

We use the EP5382QI-T in our microprocessor board. In recent assembly lots of the printed circuit board we found that an aperture was missing in the solder paste stencil for the AGND Thermal Pad. ...
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11 years ago

Yes, I can attached a scope probe to another device to determine this potential start up issue. Hot will be a bit trickier, but we have a thermal chamber that I can soak the device at 80C and repeat the test. We will start down this troubleshooting road soon. I appreciate your input.

Respectfully,

Julian