Abstract:
A chip-on-film package may include a tape wiring substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the tape wiring substrate, and a molding compound provided between the semiconductor chip and the tape wiring substrate. The tape wiring substrate may include a film having upper and lower surfaces. Vias may penetrate the film. An upper metal layer may be provided on the upper surface of the film and include input terminal patterns and/or output terminal patterns. The input terminal patterns may include ground terminal patterns and/or power terminal patterns. A lower metal layer may be provided on the lower surface of the film and include a ground layer and/or a power layer. The ground layer and the power layer may cover at least a chip mounting area.
Abstract:
The wired circuit board includes a metal supporting board, a metal foil formed on the metal supporting board, a first insulating layer formed on the metal supporting board so as to cover the metal foil, and a conductive pattern formed on the first insulating layer and having a plurality of wires. The metal foil is arranged along a lengthwise direction of each of the wires so as not to be opposed to part of the wires in a thickness direction and so as to be opposed to a remainder of the wires in the thickness direction.
Abstract:
A circuit element has a substrate layer with first and second faces. A conductive first layer overlays the first surface, and a conductive second layer overlays the second surface. The first layer defines a pattern with a trimmable portion. The second layer defines a pattern having a first conductive element registered with at least a portion of the trimmable portion, and a second conductive element electrically isolated from first element and encompassing the first element. The second element may be a ground plane that has an aperture surrounding the first component, which serves as a shield to prevent damage to any elements beyond the second layer.
Abstract:
A high speed flexible interconnect cable for an electronic assembly includes a number of conductive layers and a number of dielectric layers. Conductive signal traces, located on the conductive layers, combine with the dielectric layers to form one or more high speed electrical transmission line structures. The cable can be coupled to electronic components using a variety of connection techniques. The cable can also be terminated with any number of known or standardized connector packages.
Abstract:
A method and system for reducing the release of high frequency electromagnetic energy into the environment is disclosed, wherein local regions of distributed capacitance are embedded within a printed circuit board (PCB) and adjacent the PCB conductive traces act as low pass filters and thus increase the rise and/or fall times occurring on such traces. The present invention increases very short rise and/or fall times (e.g., 200 picoseconds or less) without degrading or detrimentally affecting other signal characteristics. The present invention does not substantially affect the voltage amplitude and does not affect the bit period when lengthening the rise and/or fall time. Also, the present invention does not induce any timing jitter that may cause synchronization problems within the system.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing multilayer flexible circuits is disclosed. The cross-sectional area of an unoccupied signal layer volume is initially determined. The unoccupied signal layer includes multiple conductive elements, and the unoccupied signal layer volume is formed between two of the conductive elements. Next, the thickness of an adhesive layer for filling the unoccupied signal layer volume is determined. Finally, the thickness of the adhesive layer is adjusted such that the adhesive layer only fills the unoccupied signal layer volume while the two conductive elements come in direct contact with a dielectric layer without any adhesive in between.
Abstract:
An influence of noise propagated from a transmitting circuit to a receiving circuit is reduced in an optical transceiver. The optical transceiver includes a transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA), a receiver optical subassembly (ROSA) including a light receiving element, a transmitting circuit for driving a light emitting element in TOSA, a receiving circuit for processing an electric signal from ROSA, and a printed circuit board mounted with the transmitting circuit and the receiving circuit. TOSA and ROSA are connected to the printed circuit board respectively by a first and a second flexible board. The printed circuit board includes a face mounted with the transmitting circuit. The second flexible board is provided with a ground layer at one face thereof and is provided with a signal line at a face on an opposed side. The second flexible board is arranged by directing the ground layer to a side of a face mounted with the transmitting circuit.
Abstract:
An apparatus comprises a signal layer including a first and second signal trace. The apparatus also comprises a first reference plane including a first slot substantially parallel to the first and second signal traces. Further, the apparatus includes a dielectric layer having at least a portion disposed between the signal layer and the first reference plane.
Abstract:
In a flat flex cable, signal lines are surrounded by logic ground planes above and below which are viaed together left and right. The ground planes coupled with the flex cable dielectric determine characteristic the impedance and attenuation of the cable and provide differential signal EMI shielding. All signal layers and logic ground planes are enclosed within the two outermost shield layers which are viaed together left and right and around the connectors to enclose both signal layers and logic ground planes to provide common mode EMI shielding.
Abstract:
A circuitized substrate in which two conductive layers (e.g., electroplated copper foil) are bonded (e.g., laminated) to an interim dielectric layer. Each of the two foil surfaces which physically bond to the dielectric are smooth (e.g., preferably by chemical processing) and include a thin, organic layer thereon, while the outer surfaces of both foils are also smooth (e.g., preferably also using a chemical processing step). One of these resulting conductive layers may function as a ground or voltage plane while the other may function as a signal plane with a plurality of individual signal lines as part thereof. An electrical assembly and an information handling system utilizing such a circuitized substrate are also provided, as is a method of making the substrate.