Abstract:
A chip package has multiple chips that may be arranged side-by-side or in a staggered, stair step arrangement. The contacts of the chips are connected to interconnect pads carried on the chips themselves or on a redistribution substrate. The interconnect pads desirably are arranged in a relatively narrow interconnect zone, such that the interconnect pads can be readily wire-bonded or otherwise connected to a package substrate.
Abstract:
A first area of a first surface of an encapsulated component can be thinned, the component including: a semiconductor chip having an active surface opposite the first surface, and an encapsulant extending outwardly from edges of the semiconductor chip. An entire area of the active surface may be aligned with the first area. After the abrading, a second area of the encapsulated component beyond the first area may have a thickness greater than a thickness of the first area. The second area can be configured to fully support the abraded encapsulated component in a state of the encapsulated component being manipulated by handling equipment.
Abstract:
A microelectronic assembly can include a microelectronic package connected with a circuit panel. The package has a microelectronic element having a front face facing away from a substrate of the package, and electrically connected with the substrate through conductive structure extending above the front face. First terminals provided in first and second parallel grids or in first and second individual columns can be configured to carry address information usable to determine an addressable memory location from among all the available addressable memory locations of the memory storage array. The first terminals in the first grid can have signal assignments which are a mirror image of the signal assignments of the first terminals in the second grid.
Abstract:
Techniques and arrangements for performing exposure operations on a wafer utilizing both a stepper apparatus and an aligner apparatus. The exposure operations are performed with respect to large composite base dies, e.g., interposers, defined within the wafer, where the interposers will become a part of microelectronic devices by coupling with active dies or microchips. The composite base dies may be coupled to the active dies via “native interconnects” utilizing direct bonding techniques. The stepper apparatus may be used to perform exposure operations on active regions of the composite base dies to provide a fine pitch for the native interconnects, while the aligner apparatus may be used to perform exposure operations on inactive regions of the composite base dies to provide a coarse pitch for interfaces with passive regions of the composite base dies.
Abstract:
Techniques for manufacturing memory devices, such as 3-dimensional NAND (3D-NAND) memory devices, may include splitting gate planes (e.g., the planes that include the word lines) into strips, thereby splitting the memory cells and increasing a density of memory cells for a respective memory device. The techniques described herein are applicable to various types of 3D-NAND or other memory devices.
Abstract:
A three-dimensional stacking technique performed in a wafer-to-wafer fashion reducing the machine movement in production. The wafers are processed with metallic traces and stacked before dicing into separate die stacks. The traces of each layer of the stacks are interconnected via electroless plating.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method relating generally to electronics are disclosed. In one such an apparatus, a film assembly has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. A dielectric film of the film assembly has a structured profile along the upper surface or the lower surface for having alternating ridges and grooves in a corrugated section in an at rest state of the film assembly. Conductive traces of the film assembly conform to the upper surface or the lower surface in or on the dielectric film in the corrugated section.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed herein for creating over and under interconnects. Using techniques described herein, over and under interconnects are created on an IC. Instead of creating signaling interconnects and power/ground interconnects on a same side of a chip assembly, the signaling interconnects can be placed on an opposing side of the chip assembly as compared to the power interconnects.
Abstract:
Capacitive coupling of integrated circuit die components and other conductive areas is provided. Each component to be coupled has a surface that includes at least one conductive area, such as a metal pad or plate. An ultrathin layer of dielectric is formed on at least one surface to be coupled. When the two components, e.g., one from each die, are permanently contacted together, the ultrathin layer of dielectric remains between the two surfaces, forming a capacitor or capacitive interface between the conductive areas of each respective component. The ultrathin layer of dielectric may be composed of multiple layers of various dielectrics, but in one implementation, the overall thickness is less than approximately 50 nanometers. The capacitance per unit area of the capacitive interface formed depends on the particular dielectric constants κ of the dielectric materials employed in the ultrathin layer and their respective thicknesses. Electrical and grounding connections can be made at the edge of the coupled stack.
Abstract:
Methods of forming flipped radio frequency (RF) filter components are provided. An example method for miniaturizing conventional planar RF filters comprises: determining radio frequency (RF) filtering characteristics of a conventional planar microstrip RF filter or a conventional stripline RF filter, determining distributed RF filter elements for emulating the RF filtering characteristics of the conventional planar microstrip RF filter or the conventional stripline RF filter, creating each distributed RF filter element on a substrate, laminating a stack of the distributed RF filter elements into a single solid RF filter module; and mounting the single solid RF filter module on a horizontal substrate to vertically dispose the distributed RF filter elements of the stack. The methods create laminated stacks of distributed RF filter elements that provide a dramatic reduction in size over the horizontal planar RF filters that they replace. Deposited conductive traces of an example flipped RF filter stack provide various stub configurations of an RF filter and emulate various distributed filter elements and their configuration geometries.