Portable Consumer Electronics: Packaging, Materials, and Reliability

This work offers an overview of industry practices for assembling portable electronic products and analyzing reliability and failure. Readers should understand fundamentals of physics, chemistry, and engineering. Coverage includes packaging challenges, printing wiring board technology and assembly, and packaging of component and interconnect technologies. After giving background on reliability statistics, the book discusses reliability of electronic assemblies, failures, and prevention, and concludes with a look at future trends in portable electronic products. Appendices provide standards and specifications, acronyms and abbreviations, and a list of recommended books. B&w photos, images, and illustrations are also included. The book will be useful for engineers, product development managers, technologists, and designers involved in the electronics industry. Canumalla is affiliated with Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. Viswanadham is recently retired from Nokia Research Center. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)