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1566 results about "Interposer" patented technology

An interposer is an electrical interface routing between one socket or connection to another. The purpose of an interposer is to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute a connection to a different connection.

Probe card assembly and kit, and methods of using same

A probe card assembly includes a probe card, a space transformer having resilient contact structures (probe elements) mounted directly thereto (i.e., without the need for additional connecting wires or the like) and extending from terminals on a surface thereof, and an interposer disposed between the space transformer and the probe card. The space transformer and interposer are "stacked up" so that the orientation of the space transformer, hence the orientation of the tips of the probe elements, can be adjusted without changing the orientation of the probe card. Suitable mechanisms for adjusting the orientation of the space transformer, and for determining what adjustments to make, are disclosed. The interposer has resilient contact structures extending from both the top and bottom surfaces thereof, and ensures that electrical connections are maintained between the space transformer and the probe card throughout the space transformer's range of adjustment, by virtue of the interposer's inherent compliance. Multiple die sites on a semiconductor wafer are readily probed using the disclosed techniques, and the probe elements can be arranged to optimize probing of an entire wafer. Composite interconnection elements having a relatively soft core overcoated by a relatively hard shell, as the resilient contact structures are described.
Owner:FORMFACTOR INC

Method and apparatus for shaping spring elements

Interconnection elements for electronic components, exhibiting desirable mechanical characteristic (such as resiliency, for making pressure contacts) are formed by using a shaping tool (512) to shape an elongate core element (502) of a soft material (such as gold or soft copper wire) to have a springable shape (including cantilever beam, S-shape, U-shape), and overcoating the shaped core element with a hard material (such as nickel and its alloys), to impart to desired spring (resilient) characteristic to the resulting composite interconnection element. A final overcoat of a material having superior electrical qualities (e.g., electrical conductivity and/or solderability) may be applied to the composite interconnection element. The resulting interconnection elements may be mounted to a variety of electronic components, including directly to semiconductor dies and wafers (in which case the overcoat material anchors the composite interconnection element to a terminal (or the like) on the electronic component), may be mounted to support substrates for use as interposers and may be mounted to substrates for use as probe cards or probe card inserts. The shaping tool may be an anvil (622) and a die (624), and may nick or sever successive shaped portions of the elongate elements, and the elongate element may be of an inherently hard (springy) material. Methods of fabricating interconnection elements on sacrificial substrates are described. Methods of fabricating tip structures (258) and contact tips at the end of interconnection elements are also described.
Owner:FORMFACTOR INC

Method and apparatus to manufacture an electronic package with direct wiring pattern

An electronic package assembly for electrical interconnection between two electronic modules having differing conductive array parameters is disclosed. The electronic package assembly includes two electronic modules, providing between the two electronic modules an interposer having a top surface and a bottom surface; a first set of conductive arrays having a first conductive array parameter on the top surface, and a second set of conductive arrays having a second conductive array parameter on the bottom surface, the second conductive array and the first conductive array having differing parameters. A plurality of conductors traverses a thickness of the interposer of the electronic package assembly, with the conductors including a conductive material optionally coated with a dielectric material, the conductors having a first end at the first conductive arrays and a second end at the second conductive arrays, whereby the conductors connecting the first and second conductive arrays therein are adapted to spatially transform the differing parameters to provide an electrical interconnection. A conductive matrix surrounds the conductors of the interposer of the electronic package assembly. The first set of conductive arrays includes the same conductive array parameters as a first electronic module and the second set of conductive arrays includes the same conductive array parameters as a second electronic module.
Owner:IBM CORP

High density integrated circuit apparatus, test probe and methods of use thereof

InactiveUS20050062492A1High performance functional testingHigh-temperature burnElectrical measurement instrument detailsManufacture of electrical instrumentsConvertersContact pad
The present invention is directed to a high density test probe which provides a means for testing a high density and high performance integrated circuits in wafer form or as discrete chips. The test probe is formed from a dense array of elongated electrical conductors which are embedded in an compliant or high modulus elastomeric material. A standard packaging substrate, such as a ceramic integrated circuit chip packaging substrate is used to provide a space transformer. Wires are bonded to an array of contact pads on the surface of the space transformer. The space transformer formed from a multilayer integrated circuit chip packaging substrate. The wires are as dense as the contact location array. A mold is disposed surrounding the array of outwardly projecting wires. A liquid elastomer is disposed in the mold to fill the spaces between the wires. The elastomer is cured and the mold is removed, leaving an array of wires disposed in the elastomer and in electrical contact with the space transformer The space transformer can have an array of pins which are on the opposite surface of the space transformer opposite to that on which the elongated conductors are bonded. The pins are inserted into a socket on a second space transformer, such as a printed circuit board to form a probe assembly. Alternatively, an interposer electrical connector can be disposed between the first and second space transformer.
Owner:GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC

Methods, apparatus and system to support large-scale micro- systems including embedded and distributed power supply, thermal regulation, multi-distributedsensors and electrical signal propagation

The present invention relates to technologies for integrated circuits and Large Area Integrated Circuits (LAICs), which are integrated circuits made from photo-repetition of one or several reticle image fields, stitched together on at least one lithographic process layer. It also relates to a specific class of LAIC that can connect to the contacts of other ICs placed on its surface, where specific contact detection algorithms means are disclosed. The innovations include means for defect tolerance of serial communication links, means for efficient diagnosis of short and stuck-at faults in regular reconfigurable network, means for a programmable interposer for rapid prototyping of 3D stacked chips, means to build efficient large area micro-system devices (LAMS), with distributed and configurable hierarchical structures for power supply, thermal regulation and signal propagation, means to reduce mechanical / thermal / thermo-mechanical issues in LAMS devices, means to propagate analog signal on a configurable digital network, means to predict thermo-mechanical stress peaks.
Owner:TRANSFERT PLUS S E C +2

Z-axis compressible polymer with fine metal matrix suspension

A compressible interposer comprising an interposer sheet having a plurality of apertures filled with a dielectric material having a substantially uniform suspension of conductive particles therein forming a plurality of conductive sites. Preferably, the number of conductive sites on the interposer are greater in number than the number of contact pads on the electronic components such that precise alignment of the interposer between the electronic components is not required. The apertures of the interposer sheet confine the conductive particles within the dielectric material such that during compression of the interposer between the electronic components, z-axis conductive pathways are formed without shorting in the x and y directions. Preferably, the interposer sheet comprises polyimide. Preferably, the dielectric material comprises polyimide-siloxane. Preferably, the conductive particles have a diameter of about 2 to about 20 mum and comprise of a material selected from the group consisting of copper, gold, silver, nickel, palladium, platinum, and alloys thereof. The particles may also be coated with an additional conductive material such as solder having a lower melting temperature. Most preferably, the conductive particles comprise solder coated copper particles. The conductive particles are present in an amount of about 30 to about 90 wt. % of the total weight of the conductive particles and the dielectric material.
Owner:IBM CORP
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