National Semiconductor Corporation

Intersil Americas Inc.

Sagar Pushpala

Nikhil Vishwanath Kelkar

Abdalla Aly Naem

Seshasayee sS Ankireddi

A semiconductor device is provided and includes a semiconductor die, and a plurality of bond pads having exposed surfaces arranged in an alternating interleaved pattern on the semiconductor die. Each of the surfaces of the bond pads have a first bond placement area that overlaps with a second bond placement area, with the first bond placement area having a major axis that is orthogonal to a major axis of the second bond placement area. A connecting bond is located at an intersection of the major axes of the first bond placement area and the second bond placement area on one or more of the bond pads.

Bond pad configurations for semiconductor dies

A method is provided involving re-slicing a wafer after dual-side alignment and processing has been performed. This procedure provides twice as many processed electronic devices without increasing the number of loading, processing and unloading procedures performed or the total number of substrates used. Another method is provided for creating two processed chips by attaching two conventional substrates, processing IC's on each of the two exposed, polished sides and then detaching the substrates. This technique reduces the number of loading, processing and unloading procedures required to produce a given number of IC chips by half. An apparatus and further method provides two different subsystems of a single IC processed on opposite sides of the same chip. Such a device saves cost by using fewer substrates to make the same number of chips. Also, the method performs loading, processing and unloading procedures half as much to produce a given number of IC's. The apparatus is an integrated circuit chip comprising two subsystems, each processed on a different side of the same silicon substrate. Sizes of chips is thereby decreased due to the smaller width of the substrate that results after processing.

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