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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2006
Applicants:

James Stuart Wight, Ottawa, Ontario, CA;

Johan M. Grundlingh, Kinburn, Ontario, CA;

Inventors:

James Stuart Wight, Ottawa, Ontario, CA;

Johan M. Grundlingh, Kinburn, Ontario, CA;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention relates to the field of electronics, more particularly to the wire bonds incorporated into an integrated circuit package such as a quad flat pack. a ball grid array or hybrid style module. The present invention takes the normally undesirable wire bond inductance and uses it in an operational circuit where positive inductance is required. The circuit in which the wire bond inductance is used is located primarily in the integrated circuit die housed in the integrated circuit package, but may also include off-die components. In one example, a wire bond is used as the required series inductance in a discrete circuit impedance inverter which consists of two shunt-to-ground negative inductances and one series positive inductance. One of the negative inductances is located on-die, while the other is located off-die.


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