This application claims priority to Taiwan Application Serial Number 111123504, filed on Jun. 23, 2022, which is herein incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to an electric device. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an electric device with a circuit board having conductive pads of different sizes.
Generally, a semiconductor assembly is mounted on a circuit board through a surface mount technology (SMT) of a ball grid array (BGA) package.
However, it is common that heat concentration occurs in corner regions of one of the semiconductor devices in practice, so that heat load therefrom may cause warpage of a substrate of the semiconductor device, thereby causing bridging of adjacent solder balls in the corner regions. Therefore, the connection performance between the semiconductor device and the circuit board is degraded, thereby affecting the reliability of the semiconductor device. It is noted that the above-mentioned technology obviously still has inconvenience and defects, and needs to be further improved.
Therefore, how to develop a solution to improve the foregoing deficiencies and inconvenience is an important issue that relevant persons engaged in the industry are currently unable to delay.
One aspect of the present disclosure is to provide an electric device, a circuit board of the electric device and a method of manufacturing the electric device to solve the aforementioned problems of the prior art.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an electric device is provided, and the electric device includes a semiconductor assembly, a circuit board, a plurality of first conductive pads and a plurality of second conductive pads. The semiconductor assembly includes a substrate, a die and an encapsulated portion. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other. The die is fixedly mounted on the second surface of the substrate. The encapsulated portion wraps the die on the substrate, and the first surface of the substrate is formed with a plurality of solder joints. The circuit board has a chip-mounted area with a rectangular shape, and the chip-mounted area includes a center zone and a plurality of corner zones. The first conductive pads are spaced to be arranged in the center zone or all of the corner zones of the chip-mounted area, and the first conductive pads are respectively soldered to one part of the solder joints through a plurality of first solder-ball portions. The second conductive pads are spaced to be arranged within the rest area in the chip-mounted area, and the second conductive pads are respectively soldered to another part of the solder joints through a plurality of second solder-ball portions. Each of the second conductive pads is sized smaller than one of the first conductive pads, and a maximum width of each of the second solder-ball portions is greater than a maximum width of each of the first solder-ball portions.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a circuit board is provided, and the circuit board includes a plate body, a plurality of first conductive pads and a plurality of second conductive pads. One surface of the plate body has a chip-mounted area with a rectangular shape, and the chip-mounted area includes a center zone and a plurality of corner zones. The first conductive pads are spaced to be arranged in the center zone or all of the corner zones of the chip-mounted area. The second conductive pads are spaced to be arranged within the rest area in the chip-mounted area. Each of the second conductive pads is sized smaller than one of the first conductive pads.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing an electric device is provided, and the method includes several steps as follows. A semiconductor assembly is provided, and the semiconductor assembly is provided with a substrate, a die fixedly mounted on one surface of the substrate, and a plurality of solder joints formed on the other surface of the substrate. A circuit layout pattern for a circuit board is designed. The circuit board is made according to the circuit layout pattern, and the circuit layout pattern includes a chip-mounted area, a plurality of first conductive pads spaced to be arranged in a center zone or corner zones of the chip-mounted area, and a plurality of second conductive pads spaced to be arranged within the rest area in the chip-mounted area, and each of the second conductive pads is sized smaller than one of the first conductive pads. The first conductive pads are respectively soldered to one part of the solder joints through a plurality of first solder-ball portions, and the second conductive pads are respectively soldered to another part of the solder joints through a plurality of second solder-ball portions, and a maximum width of each of the second solder-ball portions is greater than a maximum width of each of the first solder-ball portions.
Thus, through the construction of the embodiments above, the disclosure can reduce the possibilities of solder bridging on the circuit board, improve the connection performance between the semiconductor device and the circuit board, and thus improve the reliability of the semiconductor device.
The above description is merely used for illustrating the problems to be resolved, the technical methods for resolving the problems and their efficacies, etc. The specific details of the present disclosure will be explained in the embodiments below and related drawings.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the present disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure.
Reference will now be made in detail to the present embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts. According to the embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present disclosure without departing from the scope or spirit of the present disclosure.
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The circuit board 200 has a chip-mounted area 220 at one part of the top surface 210 thereof, and the chip-mounted area 220 is with a rectangular shape having a center zone 230 and a plurality of corner zones 240, in other words, the corner zones 240 are spaced around the center zone 230, and the center zone 230 is located at where the diagonal lines of the corner zones 240 intersect. The first conductive pads 250 are spaced to be arranged in all of the corner zones 240 of the chip-mounted area 220, and the second conductive pads 260 are spaced to be arranged within the rest area (including the center zone 230) in the chip-mounted area 220 except the corner zones 240. The outline of each of the first conductive pads 250 is substantially different from that of each of the second conductive pads 260, and an area R1 of each of the first conductive pads 250 is substantially larger than an area R2 of each of the second conductive pads 260. The first conductive pads 250 are respectively soldered to the first solder joints 113 through the first solder-ball portions 310, and the second conductive pads 260 are respectively soldered to the second solder joints 114 through a plurality of second solder-ball portions 320.
More specifically, the semiconductor assembly 100 includes a substrate 110, a die 120 and an encapsulated portion 130. The substrate 110 has a first surface 111 and a second surface 112 which are opposite to each other. The first solder joints 113 and the second solder joints 114 are spaced to be arranged on the first surface 111 of the substrate 110. The substrate 110 is formed with a plurality of solder pads 115 spaced to be arranged on the second surface 112 of the substrate 110. The die 120 is formed with a plurality of conductive bumps 121 arranged on one surface of the die 120 at intervals. The conductive bumps 121 of the die 120 are respectively soldered to the solder pads 115 of the substrate 110 through solder material (not shown), so that the die 120 is fixedly mounted on the second surface 112 of the substrate 110. The encapsulated portion 130 wraps the die 120 on the substrate 110.
In this way, no matter whether the substrate 110 of the semiconductor assembly 100 is in an infant-crying-curve shape due to thermal load, since the area R1 of one of the first conductive pads 250 within the corner zones 240 is greater than the area R2 of one of the second conductive pads 260, on the basis of the same size of solder balls (that is, the volume of each of the first solder-ball portions 310 is approximately equal to the volume of each of the second solder-ball portions 320), the maximum width W1 of the first solder-ball portion 310 (e.g., the maximum circumference of the waist of the first solder-ball portion 310) will be smaller than the maximum width W2 of the second solder-ball portion 320 (e.g., the maximum circumference of the waist of the second solder-ball portion 320). A gap G1 between any two adjacent ones of the first solder-ball portions 310 is greater than a gap G2 between any two adjacent ones od the second solder-ball portions 320, thereby reducing the possibilities that solder bridging occurred between the first solder-ball portions 310 within the corner zones 240.
For example, in each of the first conductive pads 250, the semi-major axis (a) is 0.23 mm and the semi-minor axis (b) is 0.2 mm, so that the area of each of the first conductive pads 250 is 0.145 mm2 (0.2*0.23*π). The radius of each of the second conductive pads 260 is 0.2 mm, so that the area of the second conductive pad 260 is 0.126 mm 2 (0.22{circumflex over ( )}2*π), which is 15% smaller than the area of each of the first conductive pads 250.
Therefore, even if the first conductive pad 251 and the second conductive pads 260 are the same in shape, since the area R1 of one of the first conductive pads 251 located in any corner zone 240 of the chip-mounted area 220 is larger than the area R2 of one of the second conductive pads 260, compared with the gap G2 between any two adjacent ones of the second solder-ball portions 320, the gap G1 between any two adjacent ones of the first solder-ball portions 310 in this embodiment still can increase the aforementioned gap G1 so as to reduce the possibilities that solder bridging occurred between the first solder-ball portions 310 within the corner zones 240.
In Step 603, the design of the circuit layout pattern is modified, so that an outline of each of the first conductive pads 250 is modified to be an oval shape (
In Step 607, a determination is made as to whether the substrate 110 of the semiconductor assembly 100 is in an infant-crying-curve shape, if yes, i.e., the substrate 110 is determined to be in the infant-crying-curve shape, then go to Step 608, otherwise, back to Step 601. In Step 608, the design of the circuit layout pattern is modified, so that an outline of each of the first conductive pads 250 is modified to be an oval shape (
More specifically, Step 601 further includes a detailed step that an optical measurement for collecting shadow moirė data is performed on the semiconductor assembly 100. Therefore, from the shadow moirė data, it can be inferred that the substrate 110 of the semiconductor assembly 100 is in an infant-crying-curve shape (e.g., the substrate being convex upwards from the center portion,
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Thus, when N is even, as shown in
In Step 603, it further includes more details as follows. The first conductive pads are not evenly distributed within the center zone 230. More specifically, in this embodiment, a maximum virtual square 420 in four squares 400 of the center zone 230 is formed by one diagonal line 410 of each of the four squares 400 of the center zone 230, and the maximum virtual square 420 is inscribed within the center zone 230, and the four vertexes 421 of the maximum virtual square 420 respectively contact with four sides 231 of the center zone 230. The first conductive pads 250 are only arranged within the maximum virtual square 420 in the center zone 230, but not arranged within the rest area in the center zone 230 except the maximum virtual square 420.
In Step 606, it further includes more details as follows. The encountering some of the second conductive pads are gradually replaced by the first conductive pads according to the first directions D1 from the rectangular centroid 221 to the rectangular corners 241, respectively. For example, the configuration of the second conductive pads which is in the rest area of the center zone 230 except the maximum virtual square 420 is modified to arrange the first conductive pads instead. Next, if any solder bridging is still occurred after the soldering virtual experiment (Step 604 to Step 605), the encountering some of the second conductive pads in Step 606 can continue to be replaced by the first conductive pads according to the first directions D1 from the rectangular centroid 221 to the rectangular corners 241. Thus, Step 604 to Step 606 are repeatedly performed until the solder bridging no longer occurred in the soldering virtual experiment.
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In Step 608, it further includes more details as follows. The first conductive pads are not evenly distributed within each of the corner zones 240. More specifically, in this embodiment, each of the corner zones 240 is divided into a first virtual equilateral triangle 431 and a second virtual equilateral triangle 432 by a diagonal line 430, and the first virtual equilateral triangle 431 of each corner zone 240 is connected to the corresponding rectangular corner 241. The first conductive pads are only distributed within each first virtual equilateral triangle 431 of the corner zones, but not distributed within the rests of each corner zone 240 (i.e., the aforementioned second virtual equilateral triangle 432).
In Step 611, it further includes more details as follows. The encountering some of the second conductive pads are gradually replaced by the first conductive pads according to the second directions D2 from the rectangular corners 241 to the rectangular centroid 221. For example, the configuration of the second conductive pads which is in the second virtual equilateral triangle 432 is modified to arrange the first conductive pads instead. Next, if any solder bridging is still occurred after the soldering virtual experiment (Step 609 to Step 610), the encountering some of the second conductive pads in Step 611 can continue to be replaced by the first conductive pads according to the second directions D2 from the rectangular corners 241 to the rectangular centroid 221. Thus, Step 608 to Step 611 are repeatedly performed until the solder bridging no longer occurred in the soldering virtual experiment.
Thus, through the construction of the embodiments above, the disclosure can reduce the possibilities of solder bridging on the circuit board, improve the connection performance between the semiconductor device and the circuit board, and thus improve the reliability of the semiconductor device.
Although the present disclosure has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present disclosure without departing from the scope or spirit of the present disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present disclosure cover modifications and variations of this disclosure provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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111123504 | Jun 2022 | TW | national |