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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Vijendera Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Bhyrav M. Mutnury, Austin, TX (US);
V. Mallikarjun Goud, Secunderabad, IN;
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for manufacturing a surface mount technology (SMT) pad structure includes attaching an adjacent pair of differential contact strips to a nonconductive surface of respective landing pads of a surface mount technology (SMT) pad structure of a circuit board substrate, the pair of differential contact strips having converging narrowing at a respective distal end and each having a proximal signal trace for conducting a high-speed communication signal to another functional component attached to a circuit board substrate. The method includes attaching a return current strip that is longitudinally aligned adjacent to the pair of differential contact strips on a first lateral side and connected to a ground plane of the circuit board substrate, the converging narrowing of the adjacent differential contact strip increasing separation from a distal end of the return current strip, the separation improving signal integrity by reducing fringe effects, increasing impedance, and quenching resonance.