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US 4,792,786 AGranted
Surface-mounted single package data acquistition system
AssigneeBurr-Brown Corporation
InventorsCharles H. Lewis, James P. Edgar, Heinz-Juergen Metzger
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Abstract
Integrated circuits in the form of a multiplexer, an instrumentation amplifier, a sample-and-hold amplifier, and an A/D converter are mounted on a single substrate, forming a data acquisition system capable of selecting one of a number of analog signals and converting it into a digital number. The resulting package is mounted in a leadless chip carrier (LCC) suitable for surface mounting.
Claims5
A data acquisition system physically packaged for surface mounting, said system comprising:
- (a) a first integrated circuit chip means for selectively receiving, in response to a control signal, one of n pairs of analog signal inputs and generating a resultant analog signal;
- (b) a second integrated circuit chip means for amplifying said analog signal;
- (c) a third integrated circuit chip means for temporarily storing said amplified analog signal;
- (d) a fourth integrated circuit chip means for converting said amplified analog signal into a digital signal for proportionate value;
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- (e) a single substrate of non-conducting material, said single substrate measures less than two (2) inches on a side, said substrate being used for mounting said first, second, third and fourth integrated circuit chip means, said first, second, third, and fourth integrated circuit chip means being provided with bonding pads, said single substrate being provided with peripheral bonding pads and substrate conductors, said first, second, third, and fourth integrated circuit chip means being electrically interconnected using wirebonding methods to said substrate conductors and to said substrate bonding pads, said peripheral bonding pads forming part of a leadless chip carrier for surface mounting said data acquisition system to a next higher level of packaging integration.
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A data acquisition system physically packaged for surface mounting, said system comprising:
- (a) a first integrated circuit chip means for selectively receiving, in response to a control signal, one of n pairs of analog signal inputs and generating a resultant analog signal;
- (b) a second integrated circuit chip means for amplifying said analog signal;
- (c) a third integrated circuit chip means for temporarily storing said amplifier analog signal;
- (d) a fourth integrated circuit chip means for converting said amplified analog signal into a digital signal of proportionate value;
- (e) a single substrate of non-conducting material, said single substrate measuring less than two (2) inches on a side, said substrate being used for mounting said first, second, third and fourth integrated circuit chip means, said first, second, third, and fourth integrated circuit chip means being provided with bonding pads, said single substrate being provided with peripheral bonding pads and substrate conductors, said first, second, third, and fourth integrated circuit chip means being electrically interconnected using wirebonding methods to said substrate conductors and to said substrate bonding pads, said peripheral bonding pads forming part of a leadless chip carrier for surface mounting said data acquisition system to a next higher level of packaging integration;
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- (f) a hermetically sealed package enclosing said single substrate having said first, second, third, and fourth integrated circuit chip means mounted thereon.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.