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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
May. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sammy K Brown, Los Gatos, CA (US);
George E Avery, Saratoga, CA (US);
Andrew K Wiggin, San Carlos, CA (US);
Tom L Todd, San Jose, CA (US);
Sam Beal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alpine Microsystems, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361784 ; 361736 ; 361788 ; 361790 ; 361803 ; 361809 ; 439 61 ;
Abstract
A system and method for efficiently interconnecting a plurality of ICs, thereby improving the electrical performance of the overall system. In one embodiment of the system of the present invention, a plurality of carriers corresponds to a plurality of ICs, and a board has a plurality of board regions for receiving the plurality of ICs and are arranged so as to be attached to a backplane forming a vertical stack of boards.