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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1997
Chi Shih Chang, Austin, TX (US);
William T. Chen, Endicott, NY (US);
Ajit Trivedi, Endicott, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses techniques that improve the reliability of a flip packages that uses underfill encapsulation. One embodiment of the present invention describes a method and apparatus of packaging a flip chip by relocating the neutral plane of the package substrate away from its mid-plane. Another embodiment of the present invention describes a method and apparatus of arranging the layers of a laminate for use in PBGA packaging that arranges the layers of the laminate according to the stiffness of each layer. Another embodiment of the present invention describes a method and apparatus of packaging a flip chip that uses one or more redundant interconnections at the bottom of the package substrate where the redundant interconnections are within the shadow of the IC chip.