Patent ID: 8664541

Claim:
A modified 0402 footprint for a printed circuit board (‘PCB’) comprising: at least two padstacks each having a minimum area consistent with the 0402 standard; and each padstack, having two modified corners and two unmodified corners, each modified corner modified such that the padstack's footprint can be placed beneath a ball grid array (‘BGA’), the BGA having approximately a 1 millimeter pitch, and such that the padstack may be placed at least at a minimum distance away from a closest via in the PCB, wherein each padstack has a trace to a via not directly under a padstack in the PCB and each padstack has no via within the padstack; wherein each padstack is placed in an offset position underneath a ball that resides on the opposite side of the PCB as the padstacks such that the ball is closer to the unmodified corners of the padstack than the modified corners of the padstack.