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• the present invention relates generally to interconnect technology for routing signals through a multi-layer board, and is especially useful with flip-chip packaging.
• FIG. 1 illustrates, in cross-section, a motherboard coupled, such as by solder balls, to an interposer or other substrate, hereinafter referred to as a "card".
• the card is coupled, such as by solder bumps, to a chip such as a flip-chip die, and illustrates one exemplary embodiment of the layers of such, according to the prior art.
• the card has five layers of structural material (board layers A-F), and six layers of traces or interconnects (trace layers 3F, 2F, 1FC, 1BC, 2B, and 3B), while a simplified motherboard is shown having only one structural layer (motherboard) and one trace or interconnect layer (m/b trace layer).
• motherboard structural layer
• m/b trace layer trace layer
• the uppermost one or two interconnect layers are used for routing of large numbers of input/output (I/O) signals, memory signals, clocks, strobes, voltage references, and the like (hereinafter collectively referred to as "I/O signals" for simplicity in explanation and not by way of limitation), while the lower layers are used for providing power, ground, shielding, and the like.
• Signals are routed between trace layers using vias.
• Power and ground planes may suitably be routed or coupled between adjacent layers using drilled vias.
• drilled vias may often be too large to be suitable for use in routing signals between the upper layers.
• micro-vias ⁇ vias
• FIG. 2 illustrates, in top view, an exemplary routing of such signals according to the prior art.
• the various layers of the motherboard and card are not shown, but the general outline of the flip-chip die is shown by the dotted box 10.
• a plurality of bumps 12 are distributed on the flip-chip die and/or the card in a pattern. Some of those bumps are for carrying I/O signals and some are for carrying power and ground signals.
• the I O signals will be connected to other chips (not shown) on the motherboard; thus, it is desirable to route those signals using the generally outer bumps (such as those labeled 14 and 16) of the flip-chip die, and to use the generally inner bumps (such as those labeled 12) for power and ground.
• the I/O signal count and/or the 1/0 bump density may be such that it is difficult or impossible to route all of the I/O signals on the uppermost trace layer 3F.
• some of the I/O signals are routed on the uppermost trace layer (such as 24 and others illustrated by solid lines extending from their respective bump to the "to circuitry" indication), while other I/O signals are routed from their respective bumps down through micro-vias (not shown) to a lower trace layer such as trace layer 2F, outward to a location where the design rules and physical dimensions permit, then back up through a micro-via (such as 18) to the uppermost trace layer, and from there to their destinations.
• the signals which are carried below the uppermost layer are illustrated by dashed lines such as 20, and after being micro-viad back to the top layer they are illustrated by solid lines such as 22.
• FIG. 1 shows, in cross-section, a flip-chip die, a substrate, and a motherboard, with exemplary layers shown, according to the prior art.
• FIG. 2 shows an interconnect routing system according to the prior art.
• FIG. 3 shows one embodiment of the interconnect routing system of this invention.
• FIG. 4 shows spacing details of one embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 5 shows routing details of one embodiment of the invention, particularly showing the routing of signals between micro-vias in a trace layer beneath the uppermost trace layer.
• FIG. 6 shows routing details of one embodiment of the invention, particularly showing the routing of signals in the uppermost layer and a lower layer.
• FIG. 7 shows one embodiment of an arrangement of micro-vias according to this invention.
• FIG. 3 illustrates one exemplary embodiment of the interconnect system of this invention.
• the dotted box indicates the location of the flip-chip die.
• Various groups of the bumps may be distributed in one or more repeating patterns.
• An instance of a group of bumps that repeats may be termed a "spline".
• the term "spline" may also be used to refer to a group of traces, bumps, vias, or combination thereof corresponding to a spline of the die.
• the illustrated pattern includes seven bumps 30A-G which make up a spline (Spline 1), and that pattern repeats itself to form additional splines (Spline 2 through Spline N).
• the bumps may be considered as being arranged in rows, with an outermost row (row A) being nearest the flip-chip die's edge, and one or more additional rows (such as row B through row G) each residing sequentially closer to the center or core of the flip-chip die.
• the splines may in some embodiments mirror image at some point on the chip.
• Spline 1 and Spline N are mirror images of each other. In the embodiment shown, the splines mirror image and leave some non-spline bumps between them.
• the card has one or more rows of micro-vias (such as 3 OH and 301) arranged in one or more rows (such as row H and row I). These micro-vias are for returning I/O signals from a deep layer to a less deep layer. Typically, this will be from the next-to-uppermost layer (2F) to the uppermost layer (3F), but the skilled reader will appreciate that the principles of this invention are not necessarily limited to that application. For ease in explanation only, this patent will use the terms “top layer” and "buried layer”.
• One or more of the splines may have corresponding groups of the distant micro-vias. Each such group may be termed a "riser”, such as Riser 1 through Riser N.
• top layer traces and buried layer traces are illustrated for two splines and their associated risers, for simplicity in illustration. The skilled reader will appreciate that any number of the splines may be coupled to their respective I/O signal destinations in this manner.
• FIG. 4 illustrates one exemplary spacing of the bumps and micro-vias in a spline and its riser.
• the bumps be circular, nor that the bumps all be of the same size, nor that the micro-vias be of the same size as the bumps, and so forth.
• a bump (such as bump 30A(a)) has a width "w", and the bumps in a row are on 2w centers (such as bumps 30A(g) and 30A(h)).
• the risers are located such that the on-center distance from the outermost row of bumps (row A) to the nearest row of riser micro-vias (row H) (which may be termed the "breakout length") is approximately 12w (such as from bump 30A(d) to micro-via 30H(d).
• the micro-vias within a given riser are located on approximately 1.5w centers (such as from micro-via 30H(d) to micro-via 301(d)), while the risers are at roughly 3w spacing (such as from micro-via 301(d) to micro-via 301(e)).
• FIG. 5 illustrates one exemplary embodiment of the micro-vias, signal traces, and ground plane on the buried layer. Bumps 40, 42, and 44 are actually at the top layer, but are shown here for reference of the spacing. Micro-vias 48 and 50 route I/O signals down from the bumps through the top layer to the buried layer. Traces 58 and 60 carry those signals to micro-vias 54 and 56, which route the signals back to the top layer.
• traces 58 and 60 do not connect to bumps 40 or 44, as those bumps are not present on the buried layer; they merely overlay the traces 58 and 60.
• an increased number of breakout signals may be utilized.
• a row of bumps between the top layer traces' bumps (such as rows A-C) and the buried layer traces' bumps (such as rows E-F) is used for ground, power, or other reference. In one such embodiment, that row is used in conjunction with a ground plane 62.
• the ground plane includes a plurality of "fingers” (such as 62a-c) which extend inward past the risers to connect to the micro-vias 46, which connect to ground bumps on the die.
• the fingers 62a-c carry the return path current for their respective splines' and risers' signals. Because the fingers 62a-c, the buried signal traces 58 and 60, and the micro-vias 48, 50, 54, and 56, are on the same layer, they should be fabricated so as to not touch each other.
• the fingers provide a ground (or power) return path for the signals, and they provide a reference plane for the signals which are breaking out on the top layer.
• FIG. 6 illustrates further details of the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 5.
• the signal from bump 42 is routed on trace 66
• the signal from bump 44 is routed on trace 68
• the signal from bump 40 is routed on trace 70 to their respective destinations.
• the signals coming back up from micro-vias 54 and 56 are routed on trace segments 72 and 74, respectively.
• a logic or chip coupled to the trace 72 is ultimately connected to the flip-chip connector coinciding with the bump 48.
• a maximum breakout signal count may be achieved by routing three I/O signals on the top layer and two I/O signals on the buried layer. In other embodiments, in which the design rules dictate otherwise, other signal counts may prove better.
• a given spline's top layer I/O signals are routed adjacent one another, and that spline's buried layer I/O signals are brought up to the top layer and then routed adjacent to that spline's top layer I/O signals.
• the top layer I/O signals are routed on an outermost side of the spline's riser micro-vias.
• the top layer I/O signals for the splines on the left half of the flip-chip die beginning with Spline 1 are routed on the left side of their respective corresponding risers
• the top layer I/O signals for the splines on the right half ending with Spline N are routed on the right side of their respective corresponding risers.
• the two centermost risers may in some embodiments be placed much closer together than other adjacent pairs, in those embodiments where those risers' respective traces are routed on the outer sides of those risers.
• the spacing may be different for each adjacent pair, depending upon design rules, varying numbers of signal traces that must pass between adjacent pairs, and so forth.
• the trace from the third row bump (row C) is routed between the first and second row bumps.
• the buried layer signals are taken from the fifth and sixth rows of bumps.
• those buried layer signals are routed directly beneath the spline's first and third row bumps.
• the fourth row bump is for ground.
• a row of bumps inside the buried layer signal rows' bumps may be used to provide power.
• FIG. 7 illustrates one embodiment of a placement of the riser micro-vias, which provides the shortest path for the signals on the buried layer to surface to the top layer.
• the buried layer I/O trace segments may be made to have reduced variation in their respective lengths.
• the respective micro-vias within a given riser may still be placed in substantially rectilinear arrangement with respect to the rectilinear alignment of the splines.
• the micro-vias in a riser do not need to be aligned in a radial tangent to the arc along which the risers are distributed. This rectilinear alignment may lend itself to easier simulation and validation, for example.
• connection is used in the claims below to refer generically to any and all methodologies of connecting one element (such as a flip-chip or the like) to another element (such as a card or the like).
• the invention has been described in terms of electrical signals and traces suitable for transmitting them, but has applicability in other technologies, such as optical interconnect, microwave transmission, and so forth.
• the card has been described in terms of a multi-layer board having sandwiched structural layers and trace layers, but the reader should understand that the invention has applicability in other technologies, such as those in which there is no structural stiffness required and thus no structural layers as such, or such as those in which interconnects are not referred to as "traces" per se, so long as there are multiple layers of transmission signal wires, lines, traces, fibers, or the like and the requirement of using multiple such layers in order to increase the signal breakout count or density.
• trace will be used in the claims to generically refer to any and all such means.
• breakout length should not be interpreted as necessarily requiring that the riser micro-vias be beyond the physical edges of the flip-chip die, but only that they be beyond the bump area of the flip-chip die in their vicinity.

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