Abstract:
A fabrication method of a circuit board is provided. A substrate, a top pad, a base pad electrically connecting the top pad, and a top and a base solder resist layers are provided. The top and the base pads are disposed on two opposite surfaces of the substrate, respectively. The top solder resist layer having a first opening partially exposing the top pad and the base solder resist layer having a second opening partially exposing the base pad are disposed on the two surfaces, respectively. A conductive layer covering the base solder resist layer and the base pad is formed. A plating resist layer having a third opening is formed on the conductive layer. A current is applied to the conductive layer through the third opening for electroplating a pre-bump on the top pad. The plating resist layer and the conductive layer are then removed.
Abstract:
On a semiconductor element loading face, wiring patterns are drawn out from those formed in the vicinity of the edge of the semiconductor element of the loading pads formed to correspond to the electrode terminals of the semiconductor element, and connected to via pads formed in the vicinity of the edge of the semiconductor element loading face; area pads constructed of the loading pads corresponding to the electrode terminals formed in the central region of the semiconductor element and its vicinity are electrically connected to external connecting terminal pads formed in the central region on the other side of the wiring board and its vicinity, through the nearest area pad vias encircled by the external connecting terminal pads and passing through the wiring board and the wiring patterns; and a plurality of the loading pads constituting the area pads commonly use one of the area pad vias.
Abstract:
A method for soldering electronic components of a circuit board and a circuit board structure thereof are presented. The method includes providing a circuit board first; disposing at least one solder hole and at least one heat collecting hole on the circuit board, in which the heat collecting hole is disposed around the solder hole to form a heat collecting area; extending a pin of an electronic component into the solder hole; filling a solder within the solder hole through a soldering process; and keeping heat of the solder in the heat collecting area by the heat collecting hole. Thus, the pin of the electronic component within the solder hole is successfully combined with the solder.
Abstract:
There are provided a multilayer wiring board and a method of manufacturing the same. The multilayer wiring board according to an aspect of the invention may include: a main body having a plurality of insulting layers stacked upon each other, including a first layer provided as an inner layer and a second layer provided as an outer layer; a first resistor provided on the first layer; and a second resistor provided on the second layer, connected in parallel with the first resistor, and having a smaller area than the first resistor. The multilayer wiring board obtains a target resistance value using the first and second resistors formed on the first and second layers. The second resistor, formed on the outer layer, can have a smaller area than the first resistor. Accordingly, the usable area of the outer layer is increased to thereby reduce the size of the multilayer wiring board.
Abstract:
A feed through for an active implantable medical device (AIMD). The feed through comprises first and second substantially planar, electrically non-conductive and fluid impermeable substrates usable for semiconductor device fabrication, each comprising: an aperture there through, and a contiguous metalized layer on the substrate surface that is co-existent with a section of the perimeter of the aperture and extends from the aperture; and a bond layer affixing the metalized layers of the first and second substrates to one another such that the apertures are not aligned with one another, and such that the metalized regions form a conductive pathway between the apertures.
Abstract:
A method and system for placing multiple loads in a high-speed system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the first load and the second load are placed on the first side and the second side of the printed circuit board, respectively. In addition, the first signal pin of the first load is vertically aligned with the second signal pin of the second load with an offset; the terminating end of a trace, which is connected to a driver on the printed circuit board, the first signal pin, and the second signal pin are connected at a T-point. The printed circuit also includes the first decoupling capacitor on the second side and the second decoupling capacitor on the first side. The first decoupling capacitor is connected to the first power pin of the first load. Similarly, the second decoupling capacitor is connected to a second power pin of the second load.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for accessing a high speed signal routed on a conductive trace on an internal layer of a printed circuit board (PCB) using high density interconnect (HDI technology) are provided. The conductive trace may be coupled to a microvia (μVia) having a conductive dome disposed above the outer layer pad of the μVia. In-circuit test (ICT) fixtures or high speed test probes may interface with the conductive dome to test the high speed signal with decreased reflection loss and other parasitic effects when compared to conventional test points utilizing plated through-hole (PTH) technology.
Abstract:
A heat-conductive package structure includes a carrier board having a first surface and an opposing second surface and formed with a through opening passing the carrier board; a first heat-conductive structure including a heat-conductive hole in the through opening, a first heat-conductive sheet on the carrier board, and a second heat-conductive sheet on the carrier board, wherein the first and second heat-conductive sheets are conductively connected by the heat-conductive hole; a first dielectric layer formed on the first surface of the carrier board and formed with a first opening for exposing the first heat-conductive sheet; a second dielectric layer formed on the second surface of the carrier board and formed with at least a second opening for exposing a portion of the second heat-conductive sheet; and a second heat-conductive structure formed in the second opening and mounted on the second heat-conductive sheet.
Abstract:
An apparatus and associated method for analyzing a communications link between two components on a common PCB. The communications link has a pair of through-board conductors connected by a first conductive etching on one side of the PCB. The communications link further has second etchings on an opposite side of the PCB respectively connecting each of the through-board conductors to one of the components. The first conductive etching can operably be open-circuited and connectors of an analyzer can be fitted to the through-board conductors to test the communications link between the components.
Abstract:
An optical transceiver of the present invention comprising an OSA, a circuit board, and a flexible substrate connecting these, in which the flexible substrate has high-speed signal lines and other lines other than the high speed signal lines provided separated from each other on the same surface, a ground layer placed apart and opposite these, and a resistive layer placed apart and opposite the high-speed signal lines, the other lines and the ground layer. High-speed signal and the resistive layer are opposite at least a part of the other lines.