Abstract:
A chip carrier for a semiconductor chip is provided. A plurality of solder pads for bump soldering are formed on a chip mounting surface of the chip carrier, to allow a flip chip to be mounted and electrically connected to the chip carrier. A solder mask layer is formed on the chip carrier, wherein a plurality of openings are provided in the solder mask layer to expose the solder pads, and an outwardly opening extended portion is formed respectively from the openings corresponding to the solder pads having a relatively narrower pitch therebetween, so as to prevent formation of voids during an underfill process for filing a gap between the flip chip and the chip carrier.
Abstract:
A heat-dissipating structure and a heat-dissipating semiconductor package having the same are disclosed in the present invention. The heat-dissipating semiconductor package includes a chip carrier, a flip chip semiconductor chip attached and electrically connected to the chip carrier, and a heat sink bonded to the flip chip semiconductor chip via a thermal interface material, such as a solder material, wherein a groove is formed on the heat sink around the bonding area of the thermal interface material, and a blocking layer, such as a metal oxide layer, is formed on the surface of the groove to reduce the wetting capability of the thermal interface material, thus further prevents the thermal interface material from wetting the groove in the fusion process performed the thermal interface material, therefore, it ensures the thermal interface material has sufficient thickness for forming solder bonding between the heat sink and the flip chip semiconductor chip.
Abstract:
An electronic carrier board for a chip to be mounted thereon is provided, which includes a body and a plurality of solder pads. The solder pads have carrying surfaces for carrying the chip thereon through conductive bumps. The carrying surfaces of at least two solder pads are oppositely inclined with respect to each other, thereby preventing the conductive bumps mounted on the carrying surfaces from displacement and thereby further preventing two adjacent conductive bumps subject to displacement from coming into short-circuit contact.
Abstract:
A semiconductor package with a heat sink is provided in which at least one chip is mounted on the substrate and covered by a heat sink. The heat sink is formed with a flange in contact with the substrate, allowing a plurality of clip members to clamp the flange of the heat sink and the substrate. Each of the clip members has a recess portion for receiving the flange of the heat sink and the substrate to thereby firmly position the heat sink on the substrate. The clip members are engaged with edges of the heat sink and the substrate, thereby not affecting trace routability on the substrate. Moreover, the heat sink is mounted on the substrate and would not be dislocated.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses an apparatus and system for multi-stage event synchronization, whose main object is to eliminate the drawbacks of an expensive synchronization circuit used to balance the data transmissions between an origination agent and a destination agent operating at different frequencies or clock phases as in prior art. The apparatus of the present invention organizes the slower one with multi-stage chains, each of which comprises a simple synchronization circuit and an XOR gate, for receiving the number of events transmitted from the faster one. Therefore, the slower one will not miss the data from the faster one.
Abstract:
An electronic carrier board for a chip to be mounted thereon is provided, which includes a body and a plurality of solder pads. The solder pads have carrying surfaces for carrying the chip thereon through conductive bumps. The carrying surfaces of at least two solder pads are oppositely inclined with respect to each other, thereby preventing the conductive bumps mounted on the carrying surfaces from displacement and thereby further preventing two adjacent conductive bumps subject to displacement from coming into short-circuit contact.
Abstract:
A processing module with multilevel cache architecture, including: a processor; a level-one (L1) cache, coupled to the processor, for caching data for the processor, wherein the L1 cache has at least one L1 cacheable range; a level-two (L2) cache, coupled to the L1 cache, for caching data for the processor, wherein the L2 cache has at least one L2 cacheable range, and the L1 cacheable range and the L2 cacheable range are mutually exclusive; and a memory interface, coupled to the L1 cache and the L2 cache, for transferring data between the L1 cache and a memory and for transferring data between the L2 cache and the memory.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a general purpose interface controller, including a slave interface controller and a master interface controller, used to exchange data among master devices and slave devices in an electronic device. The slave interface controller receives data and a first control signal from one of the master devices, and converts the first control signal to a request signal. The master interface controller receives the data and the request signal from the slave interface controller, converts the request signal to a second control signal recognized by at least one of the slave devices, and forwards the data and the second control signal to the slave device.
Abstract:
In a method for fetching instructions in an embedded system, a predicted one of a set of the instructions stored in a memory device is fetched and is subsequently stored in an instruction buffer when a system bus is in a data access phase. When a processor generates an access request for the memory device, the predicted one of the instructions stored in the instruction buffer is provided to the system bus for receipt by the processor upon determining that the predicted one of the instructions stored in the instruction buffer hits the access request from the processor. An embedded system with an instruction prefetch device is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A semiconductor package with a heat sink is provided in which at least one chip is mounted on the substrate and covered by a heat sink. The heat sink is formed with a plurality of grooves or holes at positions in contact with the substrate, allowing an adhesive material to be applied between the heat sink and the substrate and filled into the grooves or holes for attaching the heat sink onto the substrate. The adhesive material filled into the grooves or holes provides an anchoring effect for firmly positioning the heat sink on the substrate. Therefore, it is not necessary to form predetermined holes on the substrate for being coupled to fixing members such as bolts, and incorporation of the heat sink would not affect trace routability and arrangement of input/output connections such as solder balls on the substrate and would not lead to cracks of the chip.