Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Packaging or treatment of packaged semiconductor – Assembly of plural semiconductive substrates each possessing...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-17
2005-05-17
Zarneke, David A. (Department: 2829)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Packaging or treatment of packaged semiconductor
Assembly of plural semiconductive substrates each possessing...
C257S686000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06893899
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for selectively stacking and interconnecting individual integrated circuit devices to create a high-density integrated circuit module. In a preferred embodiment, conventional thin small outline packaged (TSOP) memory circuits are vertically stacked one above the other. The constituent IC elements act in concert to provide an assembly of memory capacity approximately equal to the sum of the capacities of the ICs that constitute the assembly. The IC elements of the stack are electrically connected through individual contact members that connect corresponding leads of IC elements positioned adjacently in the stack. In a preferred embodiment, the contact members are composed of lead frame material. Methods for creating stacked integrated circuit modules are provided that provide reasonable cost, mass production techniques to produce modules. In a preferred method, a carrier frame of lead frame material is configured to present an opening into which opening project plural lead-like contact members that correspond to the leads of an IC element. The contact members contact the leads of the lower IC element of the stack while the leads of the upper IC of the assembly contact the upper surfaces of the contact members. The stack is assembled using typical surface mount equipment and, after assembly, the carrier portion of the frame is removed to leave the plurality of contact members in place between selected leads.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6462408 (2002-10-01), Wehrly, Jr.
patent: 6806120 (2004-10-01), Wehrly, Jr.
Andrews & Kurth LLP
Staktek Group L.P.
Zarneke David A.
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