Motorola Corporation

Michael L Weiss

Anthony B Suppelsa

Robert F Darveaux

An interposer (100) for connecting two or more printed circuit boards (302, 304) is a circuit-carrying substrate (102) with two or more solder pads (104, 109)on each of two sides (105, 107). Each of the solder pads are connected to an electrically conductive via (106) in the substrate, providing electrical interconnection from one side to the other side. Each solder pad has a solder bump (108) on it. A circuit assembly is made by soldering the solder bumps on one side of the interposer to corresponding solder pads on a printed circuit board (302). The solder bumps on the other side of the interposer are likewise soldered to the corresponding solder pads of a second printed circuit board (304).

Surface mount interposer

A plastic leaded semiconductor package (20) has a semiconductor device (614) encapsulated in the package and mounted to a lead frame (612). The lead frame has a plurality of leads (622) that extend beyond the body (610) of the encapsulated package. Each of the plurality of leads is made from a metal having a predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion. A second metal (627) with a different coefficient of thermal expansion is disposed on at least one portion of each of the leads.

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Coral Springs, FL, United States of America

Michael L Weiss