Abstract:
A flexible circuitry is populated with integrated circuitry (ICs) disposed along one or both of its major sides. Contacts are distributed along the flexible circuitry to provide connection between the module and an application environment. A rigid substrate is configured to provide space on one side where the populated flex is disposed while in some embodiments, heat management or cooling structures are arranged on one side of the module to mitigate thermal accumulation in the module.
Abstract:
A flex circuit populated with integrated circuits on one or both sides and in one or more fields along the flex circuitry is wrapped about an edge of a supporting substrate. In preferred embodiments, the substrate is thermally conductive material. One side of the flex circuitry has a connective facility implemented in a preferred embodiment with edge connector contacts such as those that would allow the resulting module to be inserted into an expansion socket. In a preferred embodiment, integrated circuits (preferably memory CSPs) and any accompanying circuitry or buffers are arranged on one or both sides of a flexible circuit. In some embodiments, one or more thermal sensors or other indicators are thermally coupled to the module substrate.
Abstract:
A high density electrical interconnecting system of the present invention has at least one substrate piece and a flexible wrap-around interconnect assembly extending from a first surface of the substrate piece to a second surface of the substrate piece wherein the flexible wrap-around interconnect is disposed around an outer surface of the substrate piece.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a double-sided PCB without via holes, functioning to transport electric signals between both sides of the PCB, by folding a flexible substrate, in which circuit patterns are formed on only one side of the flexible substrate, and the double-sided PCB without the via holes fabricated by the method. Therefore, the method is advantageous in that it allows PCB manufacturers to save the efforts for forming and protecting the via holes because the double-sided PCB does not need via holes, and reduces its fabricating cost and time, due to simplicity of this method.
Abstract:
In a film substrate (FB) including a film base material (1) and conductor wiring (23) that is formed on the film base material (1), the conductor wiring (23) is arranged such that the conductor wiring thickness of an external connection portion on the film substrate to which another panel or substrate is connected is thicker than the conductor wiring thickness of conductor wiring portions (bent portions) (25) at other positions.
Abstract:
The present invention stacks chip scale-packaged integrated circuits (CSPs) into modules that conserve PWB or other board surface area. In another aspect, the invention provides a lower capacitance memory expansion addressing system and method and preferably with the CSP stacked modules provided herein. In a preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention, a form standard is disposed between the flex circuitry and the IC package over which a portion of the flex circuitry is laid. The form standard provides a physical form that allows many of the varying package sizes found in the broad family of CSP packages to be used to advantage while employing a standard connective flex circuitry design. In a preferred embodiment, the form standard will be devised of heat transference material such as copper to improve thermal performance. In a preferred embodiment, a high speed switching system selects a data line associated with each level of a stacked module to reduce the loading effect upon data signals in memory access. This favorably changes the impedance characteristics exhibited by a DIMM board populated with stacked modules. In a preferred embodiment, FET multiplexers for example, under logic control select particular data lines associated with particular levels of stacked modules populated upon a DIMM for connection to a controlling chip set in a memory expansion system.
Abstract:
An arrangement for connecting the terminal contacts of an optoelectronic component to electrical contacts of a printed circuit board using a flexible conductor arrangement. The flexible conductor arrangement has a planar form and includes a plurality of interconnects that are arranged to provide an electrical connection between the terminal contacts of the optoelectronic component and the electrical contacts of the printed circuit board. The flexible conductor arrangement is bent in such a way that, starting from the printed circuit board, it is led around the optoelectronic component and contacts the latter on a side facing away from the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
The present invention stacks packaged integrated circuits into modules that conserve PWB or other board surface area. The invention provides techniques and structures for aggregating chip scale-packaged integrated circuits (CSPs) or leaded packages with other CSPs or with monolithic or stacked leaded packages into modules that conserve PWB or other board surface area. The present invention can be used to advantage with packages of a variety of sizes and configurations ranging from larger packaged base elements having many dozens of contacts to smaller packages such as, for example, die-sized packages such as DSBGA. In a preferred embodiment devised in accordance with the present invention, a base element CSP and a support element CSP are aggregated through a flex circuit having at least two conductive layers that are patterned to selectively connect the two CSP elements. The flex circuit connects the ICs and provides a thermal and electrical connection path between the module and an application environment such as a printed wiring board (PWB).
Abstract:
The present invention stacks chip scale-packaged integrated circuits (CSPs) into modules that conserve PWB or other board surface area. In a preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention, a form standard is disposed between the flex circuitry and the IC package over which a portion of the flex circuitry is laid. The form standard provides a physical form that allows many of the varying package sizes found in the broad family of CSP packages to be used to advantage while employing a standard connective flex circuitry design. In a preferred embodiment, the form standard will be bonded to the flex circuitry with metallurgical bonds devised from an intermetallic that improves module stability while lowering the module profile.
Abstract:
A microelectronic package includes a flexible substrate and is adapted to be installed onto a support structure, which is preferably a nonplanar support structure. The package includes a frame that is affixed to a perimeter of a first portion of the flexible substrate and forms the substrate into a shape corresponding to the support structure. The package is installed so that the obverse surface of the flexible substrate is intimately against the support structure, so that the support structure not only reinforces the package to prevent damage, but also extracts heat generated during operation of the electronics.