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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Leah M. Miller, Fremont, CA (US);
Anand Govind, Fremont, CA (US);
Zafer Kutlu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Chao-Wen Chung, Union City, CA (US);
Aritharan Thurairajaratnam, Fremont, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting failures in electrical connections between an integrated circuit package substrate and a circuit board. The substrate has substrate electrical contacts that are electrically connected one to another in first sets in a first region of the substrate. The circuit board has circuit board electrical contacts that are electrically connected one to another in second sets in a second region of the circuit board. The substrate electrical contacts align with and make electrical contact with the circuit board electrical contacts. The first region of the substrate aligns with the second region of the circuit board when the substrate electrical contacts make electrical contact with the circuit board electrical contacts. The first sets of substrate electrical contacts form chains of electrical contacts with the second sets of circuit board electrical contacts. The chains of electrical contacts loop back and forth electrically between the substrate and the circuit board.