Small contaminants inside of electronic packages that contain a cavity will move in a dynamic
environment and locate into a position, typical the bond wires, which could short out the part for a brief
time during usage. Such a failure is critical for high dynamic stress environments and can pose a
significant integrity problem in high reliability electronics applications. As early as 1960, government
space organizations, electronic component manufacturers and end users employed PIND testing as a
nondestructive test to determine the integrity of electronic components.
For the past thirty years, the PIND test with its series of mechanical shocks and vibrations has been
employed by component manufacturers to screen electronic components. A significant trend in the
modern manufacture of these components is to build larger and larger packages resulting in changing
requirements for the venerable PIND test equipment.