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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2012
Joel R. Goergen, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Greg Hunt, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Tomaszewski, San Jose, TX (US);
Joseph Pankow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Laudon, San Jose, CA (US);
Joel R. Goergen, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Greg Hunt, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Tomaszewski, San Jose, TX (US);
Joseph Pankow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Laudon, San Jose, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
The characteristic impedance of a surface pad is manipulated by reticulating the pad and filling the spaces with a dielectric material, providing an inductive element in the coupling of the surface pad to an underlying ground pad of a ground plane, or a combination of these approaches. In appropriate embodiments, acceptable signal trace routing paths will exist in an embedded signal layer under the ground plane and crossing under the surface pad. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.