CHIP CARRIER

A board of integrated circuits in surface mount package ready to be used

A 'chip carrier', also known as a 'chip container' or 'chip package', is the container microchips (integrated circuits) come in, which is then plugged into or soldered onto its respective circuit board, such as a CPU being plugged into a motherboard. Many modern examples use surface-mount technology and are designed to be installed by machines, with tolerances too small for convenient manipulation by humans.
Examples:

★ CPGA (Ceramic Pin Grid Array)

★ Dual in-line package

★ OPGA (Organic Pin Grid Array)

★ Flip-chip pin grid array

★ Pin grid array

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External links

See also



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★ Integrated circuit

External links



★ Guide to Integrated Circuit Chip Packages

★ Fairchild Semiconductor Index of Discrete Packages

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