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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>fab house in EU?</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/3591/fab-house-in-eu</link><description>Dear all, 
 we&amp;#39;re at the pre-production stage, I would like to ask here in the forum the suggestion and/or your experience with fabs in Europe. 
 What we are looking for? 
 
 a fab for fast turnover prototypes 
 a production fab as well 
 
 especially</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 13</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:32:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/3591/fab-house-in-eu" /><item><title>RE: fab house in EU?</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/13027?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:32:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:b9431620-bade-4e65-a8f3-64a4e98a842b</guid><dc:creator>Oleh</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Janek,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thank you  for your share! I&amp;#39;ll check them, thanks!
Oleh&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: fab house in EU?</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/13026?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:58:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:b4c73d8c-7f71-41f4-a334-94054baec237</guid><dc:creator>Janek Mann</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve used &lt;a href="http://www.subassemblyservices.co.uk"&gt;Sub Assembly Services&lt;/a&gt; in the UK a number of times with excellent quality &amp;amp; service. Pricing is good for the UK but might be higher than in Italy (just guessing).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s not too strange to not be able to prototype BGA, as you need special equipment for placing them for prototypes (Or you&amp;#39;d have to eat the cost of setting up the pick&amp;amp;place machine) and preferably an X-Ray machine to test whether they made good connection.
For production you would set up a proper test setup and use a pick&amp;amp;place machine (And you can &amp;quot;dial in&amp;quot; the production process to get a good yield).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>