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LGA Low Inductance Capacitors

0204/0306/0805 Land Grid Arrays

Land Grid Array (LGA) capacitors are the latest family of low inductance MLCCs from AVX.

These new LGA products are the third low inductance family developed by AVX. The in-

novative LGA technology sets a new standard for low inductance MLCC performance.

Electronic Products awarded its 2006 Product of the Year Award to the LGA Decoupling

capacitor.

Our initial 2 terminal versions of LGA technology deliver the performance of an 8 terminal

IDC low inductance MLCC with a number of advantages including:

• Simplified layout of 2 large solder pads compared to 8 small pads for IDCs

• Opportunity to reduce PCB or substrate contribution to system ESL by using multi-

ple parallel vias in solder pads

• Advanced FCT manufacturing process used to create uniformly flat terminations on

the capacitor that resist “tombstoning”

• Better solder joint reliability

APPLICATIONS

Semiconductor Packages

• Microprocessors/CPUs

• Graphics Processors/GPUs

• Chipsets

• FPGAs

• ASICs

Board Level Device Decoupling

• Frequencies of 300 MHz or more

• ICs drawing 15W or more

• Low voltages

• High speed buses

0306 2 TERMINAL LGA COMPARISON WITH 0306 8 TERMINAL IDC

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