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BQ24158: failure analysis

Part Number: BQ24158
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: BQ24155
Hello,
i have a customer who needs support with the BQ24158 and wrote the following:
"We have long saga with the BQ24158.
The yield of our product is very bad and after very long investigation we’ve conclude that the mail failures are related to BQ24158.
The issue is that those part are failed due to mechanical stress and torque of the screw driver which cause internal break or visual damage to the gentle part.
We saw that both independently torque and mechanical stress that may be applied cause this gentle device to fail.
We have mass of failure during the years and the analysis took time and different assembly process to find out the issue.
The device is located close to the screw and it can also be the reason.
I need the following support.
  1. Can Ti check this and have recommendations? Are they familiar with this issue?
  2. Do you have alternate part from same family that can fit with its driver. We have complicated FW design that lay on the different functions of the device, changing to other different driver device can lead us to long development time, QA and integrations. We need something that glue less but with robust pins (prefer not BGA at all).

I would like to remind you that we have 20-24 units on single charging station (product), failure of one unit fail all the charging station.
"
can you please help with his issues?

BQ24158

  • Hi Victor,

    I am not aware of a known issue related to this particular device's structural integrity.  All WCSP packaged ICs are somewhat fragile.  If FA is desired, then you or the customer can submit through the normal TI return process on the TI website.

    Regarding replacement device, the entire BQ2415xWCSP family uses the same die and package, with only different EEPROM options being turned on or off during production.  If they want to change packages, there is BQ24155 in QFN, which was the parent to the BQ24158, that would be more robust but it has a few differences in features and a few register bit differences.

    Regards,

    Jeff