It looks like both the ADXRS150 and ADXRS300 are only using the outer pins. > A drop of cyanoacrylate and short wires to the outer pads works just > fine to bond them to the board. You actually get better bonding since > you have more chip area glued than pad area soldered. You get to the > inner pads with wirewrap wire, and then coat the 'loose' wires with > hot melt glue (so it's easy to remove with a hot air gun). > > That certainly is possible, however if the part has alot of pins > > that could get quite ugly. Obviously I would also not be a very > > "strong" type of connection, so I wouldn't recommend it in any > > application that has the possibility of vibration. TTYL > > You could also look at putting vias where the BGA pads would be. > Then you could wick solder up larger than normal via holes to get > contact. Flux on the bga pads is ESSENTIAL for this trick to work. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics