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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1998
Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a semiconductor device which includes a packaged electrical component such as an IC chip, wherein terminal posts are realized within the chip area without additional wafer surface being required beyond the chip edge. A direct feedthrough of the individual electrical connections by way of downwardly extending terminal posts that are connected to bonding pads at the top of the chip results in a small lead length and thus lesser parasitic influences, which in turn results in optimum conditions for use at super-high frequencies. Furthermore, a process for making the semiconductor device offers the option of forming deep vertical trenches on the chip edge and to thus implement separation etching for dicing. During this process, the coverage of the side surface with encapsulating material effects a passivation on the chip edge without further outlay. Expensive rewiring of the connections on the bottom side of the chip is not necessarily due to the terminal posts.