International Business Machines Corporation

Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

Wallace Dean Doeling

Clint A Beliveau

Signal busses on printed board structures mounting ASIC chips with signal termination resistor devices using planar signal terminating devices

A method is disclosed for forming resistors that are low cost, easy to manufacture and substantially within 5 percent of their desired value. In one aspect of the method, an electrically resistive material, such as nickel, is deposited directly on an insulating layer, such as a substrate. In preferred embodiments a conductive material, such as copper, is then deposited on the resistive material only at a location where a signal trace is desired. Using photo-imaging, signal traces are formed in the conductive and resistive materials. A resistor is created by forming a gap in the conductive material at a location where the resistor is desired. Current is thereby forced to flow through the resistive material at the location of the gap.

Method of forming resistors

A method is disclosed for forming resistors that are low cost, easy to manufacture and substantially within 5 percent of their desired value. In one aspect of the method, an electrically resistive material, such as nickel, is deposited directly on an insulating layer, such as a substrate. A conductive material, such as copper, is then deposited on the resistive material. Using photo-imaging, signal traces are formed in the conductive and resistive materials. A resistor is created by forming a gap in the conductive material at a location where the resistor is desired. Current is thereby forced to flow through the resistive material at the location of the gap.

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Wallace Dean Doeling