I use AD accels in the exact same package at work, the hardest part of
soldering them is heating the package itself. The solder pads run up
the side, so soldering it with a soldering iron is very doable. It
just takes a beefy temp controlled iron to heat the case.  I use a
weller SP80 iron with up to 80W and its still slow at first.

I prefer to tin the pads on the board with plain solder (no need for
paste) sit the chip on top of the board, add a bunch of flux and heat
the whole thing on a hot plate to pre-heat it, and use a hot air
pencil to flow the solder.  I would imagine you could do something
similar without hot air, and just the hot plate, just watch the temp
carefully.

If hot air isnt available, a hot plate and soldering iron will work.
Tin one pad, and use that to hold the chip in place as you solder the
rest of the leads.

Without a hot plate, you'll just have to put a blob of solder on the
iron and wait for the chip to heat up before it solders nicely.

Good luck,
-Jonathan

> I'm considering a small-run (probably 100 units per year) device which
> will include one LCC package (an accelerometer from Analog Devices, it
> comes in an 8pin Ceramic Leadless Chip Carrier (LCC).
> If I were just building one of these, I'd play around with it by hand
> and get it soldered but it wouldn't be pretty. Can anyone tell me how
> they would go about assembling, say, 25 of these? Is it worth trying
> to do it yourself (with paste and a hot air pencil I'd guess or even a
> toaster oven) or can one get an assembly house to do it for a price
> which is not exorbitant? (In this case, it would probably kill the
> project if soldering the LCC cost more than $10 a piece for a 25 unit
> run).
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