Ironwood Electronics offers High Performance Sockets and Adapters for all SMT packages including BGA, QFP, QFN/MLF, PLCC, SOIC including adapters for test, SMD socket adapters, and prototype. The 10+ GHz bandwidth sockets accommodate pitches to 0.3mm and are industries smallest handling up to 60 watts and optionally 500,000 insertions.

Ironwood's GHz BGA & QFN sockets are ideal for prototyping and testing almost any BGA device application. These ZIF sockets provide excellent signal integrity yet remain cost effective. We use innovative interconnect technology that delivers low signal loss (1dB at 6.5 GHz or 10GHz) and can support BGA or QFN pitches down to 0.3mm. Our sockets require far less PCB space than traditional mechanical-type sockets.

Ironwood's patented designs utilize a unique, wire-filled elastomer to provide electrical connections to the BGA chip.

The Giga-snaP™ 0.8, 1.0, and 1.27mm pitch BGA Surface Mount Feet Adapter line of products provide an inexpensive and reliable method for socketing 1mm BGA chips. The product line consists of patent pending female sockets with machined pins epoxy over-molded into an assembly that matches a particular BGA pattern. The epoxy over-molded female BGA socket is soldered to a PCB using standard soldering methods. A corresponding male pin BGA adapter, to which the user attaches their BGA chip, is plugged into the female socket on the board. The chip is interconnected, and the system is ready to go. The SMT adapters have the same solder ball types as the chip's they are emulating.

These patent pending QFN SMT Feet provide a reliable method for interconnecting to QFN pads. These high performance adapters have the same pad configuration as the QFN IC being emulated and a female socket array to which various adapters can be plugged. The adapter is soldered to the SMT pads using the same methods as soldering a QFN package. The pins on top of the adapter are gold plated, female-machined pins offering a very reliable interconnection to the QFN pads to the female pins.