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• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
  • H10W70/00—Package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers [RDL]
  • H10W70/40—Leadframes
  • H10W70/475—Capacitors in combination with leadframes
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
  • H10W70/00—Package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers [RDL]
  • H10W70/40—Leadframes
  • H10W70/411—Chip-supporting parts, e.g. die pads
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
  • H10W70/00—Package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers [RDL]
  • H10W70/40—Leadframes
  • H10W70/411—Chip-supporting parts, e.g. die pads
  • H10W70/415—Leadframe inner leads serving as die pads
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
  • H10W70/00—Package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers [RDL]
  • H10W70/60—Insulating or insulated package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers
  • H10W70/62—Insulating or insulated package substrates; Interposers; Redistribution layers characterised by their interconnections
  • H10W70/65—Shapes or dispositions of interconnections
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H10W—GENERIC PACKAGES, INTERCONNECTIONS, CONNECTORS OR OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF DEVICES COVERED BY CLASS H10
  • H10W72/00—Interconnections or connectors in packages

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• Integrated circuit chips have grown in size and packing density to meet user demand for more functions and storage capacity at lower cost. With this development, advantages in distributing electrical power to the chip become important.
• a common approach is to incorporate a power distribution network into the chip itself.
• the power busses tend to be large and the chip size must be increased, or functional space sacrificed, to accommodate them. This is generally undesirable.
• An alternative to increasing the chip size to accommodate the power distribution network is to distribute the power off chip and introduce power between more than two chip terminals.
• each new chip terminal consumes a package terminal pin and it is desirable to avoid multiple pins for power as well as to avoid separate power distribution means on the mounting board.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a lead frame designed in accordance with one aspect of the invention
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view, partly cut away, of the lead frame encapsulated in a plastic package
• FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 2 showing a chip installed in the package. Detailed Description
• FIG. 1 A lead frame designed in accordance with the invention is shown in FIG. 1.
• the lead frame is standard except for the interior portion, often referred to as the paddle portion.
• the elongated section 11 extends the length of the chip that will later be attached to the lead frame, and serves both as the chip support and the contact to the back of the chip.
• the paddle member are crossunder members 12 and 13 which also extend the length of the chip, plus an additional length sufficient to provide wire bonding sites as will later be shown.
• the remainder of the lead frame is conventional with a plurality of bonding sites 14 shown arranged around the periphery of the central paddle and crossunder region. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the frame shown is typically part of an endless tape with repeating lead frame units onto which chips are attached in assembly line fashion.
• FIG. 1 Affixed to, or integral with, the central paddle member 11 are contact pins 16.
• the lead frame of FIG. 1 is shown in FIG. 2 installed in a conventional plastic packaging material but with the chip removed to show the lead frame detail.
• Covering the crossunder members 12 and 13 is an insulating film 17 made for example, from mylar or the like. Openings in the film 17 are provided for the protruding pins 16.
• the back of the chip When the chip is installed over the central portion of the lead frame the back of the chip will be insulated from the crossunder members 12 and 13, but will electrically contact the paddle member 11 via pins 16. to accommodate a backplane wire contact.
• paddle 11 may communicate electrically with an external lead.
• the means for establishing electrical contact between the back of the chip and the paddle member 11 may assume a variety of forms.
• the pin arrangement of FIG. 1 is but one choice.
• the contact means may be, for example, simply an opening in the insulating film to allow the chip to be soldered or conductively bonded directly to the member 11.
• the completed package is shown in FIG. 3 with a portion cut away, as in FIG. 2, to show the manner in which the chip 21 is installed in the package.
• wire bonds 20 are shown extending from the various bonding sites on the lead frame to bonding sites 14 (FIG. 1) on the chip 21. Bonds to crossunder 12 are shown at 25 and 26, and bonds to crossunder 13 are shown at 27 and 28.
• power is applied, via two package terminal pins, between the two cross-unders 12 and 13, and thence to the chip sites via the wire bonds 25-27. Additional sites on the chip can be similarly connected to the cross-unders (power busses) 12 and 13. Thus, while but two terminal pins are allocated to applying power to the chip, any number of sites on the chip 21 can receive power.

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