Lsi Logic Corporation

Yogendra Ranade

Anand Govind

Aritharan Thurairajaratnam

Kumar Nagarajan

Emery O Sugasawara

Farshad Ghahghahi

Zafer S Kutlu

Dilip Vijay

Rajagopalan Parthasarathy

Charles E Vonderach

Jeff Hall

Dwight Manning

Parthasarathy Rajagopalan

Kishore Desai

A method and apparatus for avoiding dicing chip-outs in integrated circuit die comprises: (a) providing a wafer for forming a plurality of integrated circuit die thereon; (b) forming the plurality of integrated circuit die on the wafer; and (c) forming a saw street between the integrated circuit die on the wafer to relieve cutting stress in the wafer when the integrated circuit die are separated by a dicing saw.

Method and apparatus for avoiding dicing chip-outs in integrated circuit die

A semiconductor package construction aimed at improving thermal performance. A heatspreader is provided having a metal alloy preform attached to it already. Then, a few dots of conductive epoxy are dispensed around the die. The heatspreader with the preformed metal alloy is pressed on the adhesive and then the part is cured. By coupling the die to the heatspreader with conductive epoxy, the die is constrained from warping. By removing the necessity of coating the die, the cost of fabrication is reduced. There is only a very marginal cost increase in the back end for dispensing the dots. For this, the process and equipment already exists in the backend. By reducing die backside warpage due, the die remains in good contact with the heatspreader, thus improving thermal performance.

Construction to improve thermal performance and reduce die backside warpage

A stiffener for reinforcing a package integrated circuit. The stiffener includes a rigid planar element having a first surface for bonding to a package substrate. The rigid planar element forms a major interior aperture for receiving and surrounding an integrated circuit on all sides of the integrated circuit. The rigid planar element also forms a minor interior aperture for receiving and surrounding a secondary circuit structure on at least three sides of the secondary circuit structure. In this manner, the stiffener provides structural support to the integrated circuit package, which reduces and preferably eliminates twisting and warping of the substrate package as it heats and is subjected to other stresses. Because the major interior apertures does not need to be large enough to fit both the monolithic integrated circuit and the secondary circuit structure, there is more stiffener material available to provide structural support than there would be if the major interior aperture was large enough to fit both the monolithic integrated circuit and the secondary circuit structure.

Stiffener design

The present invention provides a characteristic impedance equalizer and method of manufacture thereof for use with an integrated circuit package having first and second signal transmission zones. In one embodiment, the characteristic impedancs equalizer includes a first conductor having a first width and providing a characteristic impedance within the first signal transmission zone. The characteristic impedance equalizer also includes a second conductor, coupled to the first conductor, having a second width and providing substantially the same characteristic impedance within the second signal transmission zone.

Characteristic impedance equalizer and an integrated circuit package employing the same

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Yogendra Ranade