Abstract:
A semiconductor module achieving higher density of the semiconductor module itself as well as of being disposed in an area-efficient manner relative to another electronic component, such as a mother board and the like. The semiconductor module includes a mounting substrate having, on an underside, a solder ball for connecting to an interconnection of a mother board and semiconductor packages mounted in multiple layers on the top side of the mounting substrate and connected to electrodes on the mounting substrate.
Abstract:
A multichip assembly includes semiconductor devices or semiconductor device components with outer connectors on peripheral edges thereof. The outer connectors are formed by creating via holes along boundary lines between adjacent, unsevered semiconductor devices, or semiconductor device components, then plating or filling the holes with conductive material. When adjacent semiconductor devices or semiconductor device components are severed from one another, the conductive material in each via between the semiconductor devices is bisected. The semiconductor devices and components of the multichip assembly may have different sizes, as well as arrays of outer connectors with differing diameters and pitches. Either or both ends of each outer connector may be electrically connected to another aligned outer connector or contact area of another semiconductor device or component. Assembly in this manner provides a low-profile stacked assembly.
Abstract:
A system for delivering power to a processor enables a DC-to-DC converter substrate to be secured to the processor carrier in the Z-axis direction. The ability to assemble the converter to the processor in this way facilitates assembly compared to systems in which the converter is plugged in to the processor carrier in the direction substantially parallel to the surface of the motherboard.
Abstract:
Each of junctions formed between a semiconductor device and a substrate comprises metal balls of Cu, etc., and compounds of Sn and the metal balls, and the metal balls are bonded together by the compounds.
Abstract:
A board adapter for electrically connecting an electrical card connector to a mother board, comprises 68 signal holes, 100 conductive pads, a plurality of signal traces, a first grounding means, a transforming unit and a second grounding contact. The first grounding contact surrounds the signal holes and is electrically connected with a corresponding grounding contact of the electrical connector, for providing the signal holes and the electrical connector with grounding protection. The second grounding contact is alternately juxtaposed with every two of the signal traces for providing grounding protection. The conductive pads are electrically connected with either the signal traces or the grounding contacts. The transforming unit includes two power traces to separately bear two different strength voltage induced currents. When either of the traces bears a corresponding voltage induced current, the other trace can be transformed into a grounding trace to protect the bearing trace.
Abstract:
A low-profile computer assembly having a universal footprint on a riser card for mounting peripheral card connectors on the riser card is provided. The peripheral card connectors can be of the edge-card type and can be mounted in pairs, back-to-back, with each connector of the pair extending uniaxially and perpendicularly from opposing sides of a riser card. The two opposing universal footprints on which such a pair of peripheral card connectors are mounted can support a first peripheral card connector having a first bus form factor for a first peripheral bus conforming to a first bus protocol specification and a second, paired peripheral card connector having a second, different bus form factor for a second peripheral bus conforming to a second, different bus protocol specification.
Abstract:
The size precision of a surface mountable electronic part is improved and a production thereof is simplified. The surface mountable electronic part is constructed such that a circuit substrate is housed in a shield case of which an end side is open, and the shield case is a resin case having a shield film. A connection pattern is formed on the inner surface of the case, with one end of the connection pattern being disposed so as to correspond to an external connection land of the circuit substrate, and with the other end of the connection pattern extending to the open end of the case.
Abstract:
A bus device, such as a memory board, is provided with a mother board and a daughter board mount at a predetermined distance above the surface of the mother board. The daughter board has integrated circuit components, such a memory chips, mounted on both of its sides. Means are provided for connecting the wires on the daughter board with those of the mother board and for connecting the wires on the mother board with the conductors of a system bus. In the preferred embodiment of the invention the distance at which the daughter board is mounted above the surface of the mother board is less than twice the maximum thickness of the electronic components mounted on the side of the memory board facing the mother board. The portion of the mother board under these components contains no electronic components itself. Instead, that portion of the mother board contains at least one ventilation opening to ventilate the components on the side of the daughter board that faces the mother board. The preferred embodiment allows two layers of chips to be mounted in a computer slot in which the maximum permissible extent to which components may stick out from the back of a bus device is too small to allow chips to be mounted on the back of the mother board.
Abstract:
A circuit board assembly (1), comprising a first circuit board (10) and a second circuit board (20) which are electrically connected with each other, and a monolithic substrate (30) configured for supporting a power component and comprising a first contact surface (31) that is fixedly connected to and forms a thermal contact with the second circuit board (20), the circuit board assembly being characterized in that, the substrate (30) further comprises a second contact surface (32) that is fixedly connected to the first circuit board (10) and forms a thermal contact with the first circuit board (10) so that the substrate functions as an extension of the first circuit board to support the second circuit board. A radio unit comprising a circuit board assembly (1) is also disclosed.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit (IC) device may include a first substrate having an inductor ground plane in a conductive layer of the first substrate. The integrated circuit may also include a first inductor in a passive device layer of a second substrate that is supported by the first substrate. A shape of the inductor ground plane may substantially correspond to a silhouette of the first inductor.