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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2000
Claude Louis Bertin, S. Burlington, VT (US);
Wayne John Howell, Williston, VT (US);
William R. Tonti, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Jerzy Maria Zalesinski, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Through-chip conductors for low inductance chip-to-chip integration and off-chip connections in a semiconductor package is disclosed. A semiconductor device has active devices on the front surface, a first through-chip conductor having first electrical/physical characteristics passing from the front surface of the device to the back surface, a second through-chip conductor having second electrical/physical characteristics passing to the back surface, and an off-chip or chip-to-chip connector electrically connecting the active devices on the front surface to a different level of packaging.