Abstract:
A printed wiring board comprises a first plane having a split formed therein and at least one signal trace disposed on a second plane. The signal trace comprises an increased width in an area of the second plane corresponding to a location of the split.
Abstract:
The disclosed board fabrication techniques and design features enable the construction of a reliable, high-layer-count, and economical backplane for routers and the like that require a large number of signaling paths across the backplane at speeds of 2.5 Gbps or greater, as well as distribution of significant amounts of power to router components. The disclosed techniques and features allow relatively thick (e.g., three- or four-ounce copper) power distribution planes to be combined with large numbers of high-speed signaling layers in a common backplane. Using traditional techniques, such a construction would not be possible because of the number of layers required and the thickness of the power distribution layers. The disclosed embodiments use novel layer arrangements, material selection, processing techniques, and panel features to produce the desired high-speed layers and low-noise high-power distribution layers in a single mechanically stable board.
Abstract:
In a printed wiring board, capacitors have electrode layers that may be selectively trimmed to obtain high tolerances. The electrode layers can be formed from a plurality of elongated electrode portions, each of which can be selectively trimmed. The electrode layers can also be formed from interdigitated elongated electrode portions.
Abstract:
A structure of a circuit board for improving the performance of routing traces is described as eliminating the resonant effects from the inner layers in a circuit board. For eliminating the stray capacitor effect between the planes in the circuit board, the present invention uses a method for etching an area of a power plane and the area is corresponding to a routing plane. Consequently, the routing trace can make good electric potential reference of a ground plane. Due to the reduction of the stray capacitor, the structure for improving the performance of routing traces of the invention can avoid the resonance effect and parasitic resonance in the circuit board as produced in a high-frequency situation in order to promote the quality of the circuit board.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device is arranged such that a semiconductor chip having electrodes is flip chip mounted on printed substrate pads on a printed wiring substrate by a bump formed on each electrode. The semiconductor chip and the printed wiring substrate are fixed with a thermo-setting resin. A penetration hole is formed within an area where the printed substrate pad contacts each gold bump, and the gold bump has a joint section also on a side face of the penetration hole of the printed substrate pad. With this structure, the semiconductor device has a secure electrical connection between the bump and the metal pattern.
Abstract:
A multilayer electronic substrate is manufactured by employed: a first conductor layer arranged on an insulating substrate; an insulator arranged on the first conductor layer; a resistor arranged on the insulator; and second conductor layers for sandwiching the resistor to be connected to this resistor. In this multilayer electronic substrate, the resistor is trimmed so as to adjust an electric characteristic of a circuit, and a portion of the first conductor layer, which corresponds to a trimming portion of the resistor, is constituted by a first insulating region.
Abstract:
An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal section. The lead wiring pad and bonding pad are soldered by melting the solder ball. As a result, there is provided a recessed section into which a solder ball is placed by way of surface raised sections, using gravitational force, in the vicinity of the center line of the surface of the lead wiring pad. In this way the position of the solder ball is not displaced from the center line when a bonding pad and lead wiring pad are connected by means of a solder ball.
Abstract:
In a printed wiring board, capacitors have electrode layers that may be selectively trimmed to obtain high tolerances. The electrode layers can be formed from a plurality of elongated electrode portions, each of which can be selectively trimmed. The electrode layers can also be formed from interdigitated elongated electrode portions.
Abstract:
A warpage-preventive circuit board and method for fabricating the same is provided, wherein a plurality of conductive traces are formed on a surface of an electrically-insulative core layer, and a plurality of discontinuous dummy circuit regions are disposed on the surface of the electrically-insulative core layer at area free of the conductive traces, with adjacent dummy circuit regions being spaced apart by at least a chink. During a high-temperature fabrication process, the dummy circuit regions help reduce thermal stress and the chinks absorb thermal expansion of the dummy circuit regions, to thereby prevent warpage of the circuit board and cracks of a chip mounted on the circuit board, such that yield and reliability of fabricated semiconductor devices can be improved.
Abstract:
A semiconductor package has ball lands each configured to have a composite structure of SMD type and NSMD type. One peripheral portion of the ball land is covered with a mask layer, thus forming the SMD type, whereas the other peripheral portion is exposed through an opening area of the mask layer, thus forming the NSMD type. In one embodiment, the first peripheral portion is disposed to face a central point of a ball-mounting surface of a substrate, and the second peripheral portion is disposed to face the opposite direction to the central point. The composite structure of the ball lands provides more stable and enhanced connections between connection balls, such as solder balls, and the ball-mounting surface.