Company Overview – Over 8,000 products – High Performance Adapters and Sockets – Many Custom Designs – Engineering – Electrical and Mechanical – ISO 9001:2015 Registration Socket Technology Overview – Embedded gold plated wire elastomer (SG) – Stamped & Etched spring pins (SBT) – Embedded silver ball elastomer matrix (SM/SMP) – Compressible silver button in […]

High-performance, 0.35mm-0.5mm pitch net zero package footprint engineering test sockets for BGA style packaged devices Ironwood Electronics Grypper series test socket is the next best thing to not having a socket at all. The Grypper G40 as the superior test socket solution for low-to-high-ball-count BGA packages. Sized to match the package, the G40 Grypper test […]

High Performance Near Zero Footprint Sockets for 0.40 + pitch devices. New Y contact is less aggressive to device solder ball allowing multiple insertions of the same deviceLower insertion – positive retention with spring bias Lid. Technical Documents Grypper Y Specification Sheet Grypper Y RF Test Report Grypper Attach & Removal Grypper Insert & Removal […]

High-performance, 0.65 mm+ pitch net zero package footprint engineering test sockets for BGA style packaged devices over 200 ball count and for over 300 the G80 LIF to reduce insertion forces. Technical Documents Grypper G80 Specification Sheet Grypper G80 LIF Grypper G80 0.45 Ball 0.8 Pitch RF Characterization Summary Grypper G80 0.50 Ball 0.8 and […]

High Performance, Industry Standard Zero Footprint Sockets for 0.35 + pitch devices. Technical Documents Zero Footprint SMT Spring Pin Sockets Product Bulletin   Ironwood Electronics Zero footprint (ZFP) sockets is a device size or near device size footprint test socket incorporating industry standard high performance spring pins. Ironwood can design a socket to work with […]

Socket and Test your 19x19mm BGA device using extreme temperature socket Ironwood Electronics recently introduced a new Stamped spring pin socket addressing high performance requirements for testing BGA780 – CBT-BGA-7054. The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 31 gram actuation force per ball and cycle life of 125,000 insertions. The self inductance of the […]

Socket and Test your 13x13mm BGA device using extreme temperature socket Ironwood Electronics recently introduced a new Stamped spring pin socket addressing high performance requirements for testing BGA361 – CBT-BGA-7056. The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 31 gram actuation force per ball and cycle life of 125,000 insertions. The self inductance of the […]

Socket your QFN28 using Extreme Temperature Socket with Superior Electrical Performance Ironwood Electronics recently introduced a new QFN socket addressing high performance requirements for custom size devices – CBT-QFN-7071. The contactor is a stamped spring pin  with 14.5 gram actuation force per pin and cycle life of 100,000 insertions. The self inductance of the contactor is 0.98 nH, […]

Solutions for Controllers, Buffers and DDR’s BGA devices Ironwood Electronics has Grypper sockets for all your BGA components used on Memory cards – Contoller, Buffers and DDR’s. The Ironwood Grypper sockets are great for enabling fast east swap out of BGA device for development sorting and failure analysis. The Grypper socket allow you to simply […]