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Anonymous Poster	Solder Pads Minimum Size 10/18/2006 10:25 AM
	I'm working with my design team to manufacture a new microphone that will have a diameter of 4 mm. The smallest we had was 6 mm with a 1.4mm x 2mm area. Obviously there is a + and a -. The question is, without affecting manufacturability (soldering reliability) what is the minimum we can go without affecting soldering and reliability?
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Anonymous Poster	#1 Re: Solder Pads Minimum Size 10/19/2006 8:42 AM
	Hi If you go to wire bonding with Gold wire you can reduce your bonding pads down to 50 microns so I don't see any reason why you couldn't start making microphones smaller than 1 mm.
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