Book excerpt: A guide to flip chip technologies, for professionals in flip chip and MCM research and development, and for engineers and technical managers choosing design and manufacturing processes for electronic packaging and interconnect systems. Discusses economic, design, material, quality, and reliability issues of flip chip technologies, and details aspects of classical solder-bumped flip chip interconnect technologies; the next generations of flip chip technologies; and known-good-die testing for multiple module applications. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR