Semiconductor device power interconnect striping
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorEdward P. Osburn
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for improving the delivery and filtering of power to a semiconductor device is disclosed by organizing out interconnects (pins, balls, pads or other interconnects) used to carry power in a striped configuration that shortens the conductive path required between a power source and a semiconductor device and that reduces the resistance of that conductive path.
Claims5
A method comprising placing interconnects on a first face of a package of a semiconductor device in a grid-like pinout that has a center in which there are no interconnects wherein a first subset of the interconnects is connectable to a first power supply voltage and a second subset of the interconnects is connectable to a second power supply voltage, wherein the interconnects of the first and second subsets are arrayed into a first group of alternating adjacent parallel stripes of interconnects, each parallel stripe of the first group comprised of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of interconnects, the parallel stripes of the first group perpendicular to a first outer edge of the grid-like pin-out, and wherein each of the alternates parallel stripes terminated at a first edge of the center.
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