Abstract:
In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip (1000) which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate (6000), and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected by wires to electrodes of the wiring substrate. In order to make the high-frequency power amplifier module small in size, a substrate-side bonding electrode electrically connected to a wire set at a fixed reference electric potential is placed at a location farther from a side of the semiconductor chip than a substrate-side output electrode electrically connected to an output wire. A substrate-side input electrode electrically connected to an input wire is located at a distance from the side of the semiconductor chip about equal to the distance from the side of the semiconductor chip to the substrate-side output electrode, or at a location farther from the side of the semiconductor chip than the substrate-side bonding electrode is. Particularly, in a high-frequency power amplifier module provided with a semiconductor chip having multistage amplifying transistors (2000,3000) on a wiring substrate: an angle formed by a first auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an input bonding wire (9000D) connecting a bonding input electrode (2000B) for a specific one of the amplifying transistors to the wiring substrate arid a second auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an output bonding wire (9000A) connecting an bonding output electrode (3000C) for another amplifying transistor at a stage following the specific amplifying transistor to the wiring substrate is in the range 72 degrees to 180 degrees; and a gap between bonding portions of the bonding input electrode and the bonding output electrode is at least 0.3 mm but smaller than 0.8 mm. As a result, the high-frequency characteristic of the power amplifier module can be improved and the size thereof can be reduced.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate, and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected by wires to electrodes of the wiring substrate. In order to make the high-frequency power amplifier module small in size, a substrate-side bonding electrode electrically connected to a wire set at a fixed reference electric potential is placed at a location farther from a side of the semiconductor chip than a substrate-side output electrode electrically connected to an output wire. A substrate-side input electrode electrically connected to an input wire is located at a distance from the side of the semiconductor chip about equal to the distance from the side of the semiconductor chip to the substrate-side output electrode, or at a location farther from the side of the semiconductor chip than the substrate-side bonding electrode is. Particularly, in a high-frequency power amplifier module provided with a semiconductor chip having multistage amplifying transistors on a wiring substrate: an angle formed by a first auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an input bonding wire connecting a bonding input electrode for a specific one of the amplifying transistors to the wiring substrate and a second auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an output bonding wire connecting an bonding output electrode for another amplifying transistor at a stage following the specific amplifying transistor to the wiring substrate is in the range 72 degrees to 180 degrees; and a gap between bonding portions of the bonding input electrode and the bonding output electrode is at least 0.3 mm but smaller than 0.8 mm. As a result, the high-frequency characteristic of the power amplifier module can be improved and the size thereof can be reduced.
Abstract:
A constant voltage circuit according to this invention comprises first means (1) attenuating or dividing fluctuating voltage and an amplifying FET (Q₂), to the gate of which the output attenuated or divided by the first means (1) is applied and whose drain is connected with the fluctuating voltage through load means (2). The attenuation ratio or division ratio of the first means (1), the mutual conductance of the amplifying FET (Q₂) and the impedance of the load means (2) are so set that the voltage drop across the load means (2) cancels the fluctuating amount of the fluctuating voltage. Consequently an output voltage, which is maintained substantially constant, is obtained at the drain of the amplifying FET (Q2), independently of fluctuations in the fluctuating voltage, and thus a constant voltage circuit can be obtained. A constant current circuit according to this invention utilizes the constant voltage circuit described above. The output voltage of the constant voltage circuit is supplied to the gate of the constant current FET (Q₃₁ - Q 3n ) Consequently a current, which is maintained substantially constant, flows through the drain-source path of this constant current FET (Q₃₁-Q 3n ) and thus a constant current circuit can be obtained.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip (1000) which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate (6000), and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected by wires to electrodes of the wiring substrate. In order to make the high-frequency power amplifier module small in size, a substrate-side bonding electrode electrically connected to a wire set at a fixed reference electric potential is placed at a location farther from a side of the semiconductor chip than a substrate-side output electrode electrically connected to an output wire. A substrate-side input electrode electrically connected to an input wire is located at a distance from the side of the semiconductor chip about equal to the distance from the side of the semiconductor chip to the substrate-side output electrode, or at a location farther from the side of the semiconductor chip than the substrate-side bonding electrode is. Particularly, in a high-frequency power amplifier module provided with a semiconductor chip having multistage amplifying transistors (2000,3000) on a wiring substrate: an angle formed by a first auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an input bonding wire (9000D) connecting a bonding input electrode (2000B) for a specific one of the amplifying transistors to the wiring substrate arid a second auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an output bonding wire (9000A) connecting an bonding output electrode (3000C) for another amplifying transistor at a stage following the specific amplifying transistor to the wiring substrate is in the range 72 degrees to 180 degrees; and a gap between bonding portions of the bonding input electrode and the bonding output electrode is at least 0.3 mm but smaller than 0.8 mm. As a result, the high-frequency characteristic of the power amplifier module can be improved and the size thereof can be reduced.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate, and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected by wires to electrodes of the wiring substrate. In order to make the high-frequency power amplifier module small in size, a substrate-side bonding electrode electrically connected to a wire set at a fixed reference electric potential is placed at a location farther from a side of the semiconductor chip than a substrate-side output electrode electrically connected to an output wire. A substrate-side input electrode electrically connected to an input wire is located at a distance from the side of the semiconductor chip about equal to the distance from the side of the semiconductor chip to the substrate-side output electrode, or at a location farther from the side of the semiconductor chip than the substrate-side bonding electrode is. Particularly, in a high-frequency power amplifier module provided with a semiconductor chip having multistage amplifying transistors on a wiring substrate: an angle formed by a first auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an input bonding wire connecting a bonding input electrode for a specific one of the amplifying transistors to the wiring substrate and a second auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an output bonding wire connecting an bonding output electrode for another amplifying transistor at a stage following the specific amplifying transistor to the wiring substrate is in the range 72 degrees to 180 degrees; and a gap between bonding portions of the bonding input electrode and the bonding output electrode is at least 0.3 mm but smaller than 0.8 mm. As a result, the high-frequency characteristic of the power amplifier module can be improved and the size thereof can be reduced.
Abstract:
A method of searching fault locations which is-employed in a transmission system comprising a transmitting terminal (1) having a transmitter (2) for transmitting a digital signal; a receiving terminal (5) having a receiver (8) for receiving the digital signal; a plurality of repeaters (4, 4, ...) which are placed between the transmitting and receiving terminals, and each of which receives and amplifies the digital signal from a preceding repeater section and deliver it to a subsequent repeater section; and a plurality of transmission lines (3, 3, ...) for connecting the transmitter with the first repeater, the repeaters with each other and the final repeater with each other and the final repeater with the receiver, respectively. This method comprises the steps of coding an orginal signal to be transmitted in terms of two kinds of error detecting codes at the transmitting terminal to send out them from the transmitter; detecting an error of a received signal using one of the two kinds of error detecting codes at each repeater thereby to measure the error rate occurred at one repeater section corresponding to each repeater; recording a decoded received signal using the error detecting code employed to detect the error, and delivering it to a subsequent repeater section; and transmitting signals each of which represents the error rate at each repeater section measured at each repeater, to the transmitting terminal or receiving terminal.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip (1000) which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate (6000), and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected by wires to electrodes of the wiring substrate. In order to make the high-frequency power amplifier module small in size, a substrate-side bonding electrode electrically connected to a wire set at a fixed reference electric potential is placed at a location farther from a side of the semiconductor chip than a substrate-side output electrode electrically connected to an output wire. A substrate-side input electrode electrically connected to an input wire is located at a distance from the side of the semiconductor chip about equal to the distance from the side of the semiconductor chip to the substrate-side output electrode, or at a location farther from the side of the semiconductor chip than the substrate-side bonding electrode is. Particularly, in a high-frequency power amplifier module provided with a semiconductor chip having multistage amplifying transistors (2000,3000) on a wiring substrate: an angle formed by a first auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an input bonding wire (9000D) connecting a bonding input electrode (2000B) for a specific one of the amplifying transistors to the wiring substrate and a second auxiliary line connecting bonding portions to each other at the two ends of an output bonding wire (9000A) connecting an bonding output electrode (3000C) for another amplifying transistor at a stage following the specific amplifying transistor to the wiring substrate is in the range 72 degrees to 180 degrees; and a gap between bonding portions of the bonding input electrode and the bonding output electrode is at least 0.3 mm but smaller than 0.8 mm. As a result, the high-frequency characteristic of the power amplifier module can be improved and the size thereof can be reduced.
Abstract:
A method of searching fault locations which is-employed in a transmission system comprising a transmitting terminal (1) having a transmitter (2) for transmitting a digital signal; a receiving terminal (5) having a receiver (8) for receiving the digital signal; a plurality of repeaters (4, 4, ...) which are placed between the transmitting and receiving terminals, and each of which receives and amplifies the digital signal from a preceding repeater section and deliver it to a subsequent repeater section; and a plurality of transmission lines (3, 3, ...) for connecting the transmitter with the first repeater, the repeaters with each other and the final repeater with each other and the final repeater with the receiver, respectively. This method comprises the steps of coding an orginal signal to be transmitted in terms of two kinds of error detecting codes at the transmitting terminal to send out them from the transmitter; detecting an error of a received signal using one of the two kinds of error detecting codes at each repeater thereby to measure the error rate occurred at one repeater section corresponding to each repeater; recording a decoded received signal using the error detecting code employed to detect the error, and delivering it to a subsequent repeater section; and transmitting signals each of which represents the error rate at each repeater section measured at each repeater, to the transmitting terminal or receiving terminal.