Flexible interconnect cable with grounded coplanar waveguide
AssigneeApplied Micro Circuits Corporation
InventorsJames Leroy Blair, Oswin M. Schreiber, Jeffrey Thomas Smith
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Abstract
A high speed flexible interconnect cable includes a number of conductive layers and a number of dielectric layers. Conductive signal traces, located on the conductive layers, combine with the dielectric layers to form one or more high speed electrical transmission line structures. The transmission line structure may be realized as a grounded coplanar waveguide structure. The cable can be coupled to destination components using a variety of connection techniques. The cable can also be terminated with any number of known or standardized connector packages.
Claims20
An electrical interconnect cable comprising:
- a flexible dielectric layer;
- a flexible conductive layer mounted to a first side of the flexible dielectric layer;
- a number of conductive traces defined in the flexible conductive layer;
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- a flexible ground layer mounted to a second side of the flexible dielectric layer;
- the number of conductive traces including first signal traces and first ground conductive traces constituting a grounded coplanar waveguide configuration.
An electronic assembly comprising:
- an electrical interconnect cable, including:
- a flexible dielectric layer;
- a flexible conductive layer mounted to a first side of the flexible dielectric layer;
- a plurality of conductive traces defined in the flexible conductive layer;
- a flexible ground layer mounted to a second side of the flexible dielectric layer;
- a plurality of conductive cable pads near a terminating end of the electrical interconnect cable, each conductive cable pad terminating a respective conductive trace;
- the plurality of conductive traces including first signal and ground conductive traces constituting a grounded coplanar waveguide configuration;
- a component carrier substrate with a plurality of conductive substrate pads, each conductive substrate pad corresponding to a respective one of the exposed conductive cable pads;
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- means for connecting the conductive cable pads to their corresponding conductive substrate pads.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.