Patent Grant
9484080
The subject matter of the present application relates to microelectronic packages, circuit panels, and microelectronic assemblies incorporating one or more microelectronic package and a circuit panel.
Semiconductor chips are commonly provided as individual, prepackaged units. A standard chip has a flat, rectangular body with a large front face having contacts connected to the internal circuitry of the chip. Each individual chip typically is contained in a package having external terminals connected to the contacts of the chip. In turn, the terminals, i.e., the external connection points of the package, are configured to electrically connect to a circuit panel, such as a printed circuit board. In many conventional designs, the chip package occupies an area of the circuit panel considerably larger than the area of the chip itself. As used in this disclosure with reference to a flat chip having a front face, the “area of the chip” should be understood as referring to the area of the front face.
Size is a significant consideration in any physical arrangement of chips. The demand for more compact physical arrangements of chips has become even more intense with the rapid progress of portable electronic devices. Merely by way of example, devices commonly referred to as “smart phones” integrate the functions of a cellular telephone with powerful data processors, memory, and ancillary devices such as global positioning system receivers, electronic cameras, and local area network connections along with high-resolution displays and associated image processing chips. Such devices can provide capabilities such as full internet connectivity, entertainment including full-resolution video, navigation, electronic banking and more, all in a pocket-size device.
Complex portable devices require packing numerous chips into a small space. Moreover, some of the chips have many input and output connections, commonly referred to as “I/Os.” These I/Os must be interconnected with the I/Os of other chips. The components that form the interconnections should not greatly increase the size of the assembly. Similar needs arise in other applications as, for example, in data servers such as those used in internet search engines where increased performance and size reduction are needed.
Semiconductor chips containing memory storage arrays, particularly dynamic random access memory chips (DRAMs) and flash memory chips, are commonly packaged in single- or multiple-chip packages and assemblies. Each package has many electrical connections for carrying signals, power, and ground between terminals and the chips therein. The electrical connections can include different kinds of conductors such as horizontal conductors, e.g., traces, beam leads, etc., that extend in a horizontal direction relative to a contact-bearing surface of a chip, vertical conductors such as vias, which extend in a vertical direction relative to the surface of the chip, and wire bonds that extend in both horizontal and vertical directions relative to the surface of the chip.
Conventional microelectronic packages can incorporate a microelectronic element that is configured to predominantly provide memory storage array function, i.e., a microelectronic element that embodies a greater number of active devices to provide memory storage array function than any other function. The microelectronic element may be or may include a DRAM chip, or a stacked electrically interconnected assembly of such semiconductor chips.
In light of the foregoing, certain improvements in the design of circuit panels or other microelectronic components can be made in order to improve the functional flexibility or electrical performance thereof, particularly in circuit panels or other microelectronic components to which packages can be mounted and electrically interconnected with one another.
A microelectronic assembly can include an address bus comprising a plurality of signal conductors each passing sequentially through first, second, third, and fourth connection regions, and first and second microelectronic packages. The first microelectronic package can include first and second microelectronic elements, and the second microelectronic package can include third and fourth microelectronic elements. Each microelectronic element can be electrically coupled to the address bus via the respective connection region. An electrical characteristic between the first and second connection regions can be within a same tolerance of the electrical characteristic between the second and third connection regions.
In a particular embodiment, the electrical characteristic can be an electrical trace length. In one example, the electrical characteristic can be an electrical propagation delay. In an exemplary embodiment, the electrical characteristic can be a characteristic impedance of the signal conductors. In a particular example, the electrical characteristic can be a difference in an electrical load applied to the address bus from the microelectronic element connected with the respective connection region.
A microelectronic assembly can include an address bus comprising a plurality of signal conductors each passing sequentially through first, second, third, and fourth connection regions, and first and second microelectronic packages. The first microelectronic package can include first and second microelectronic elements, and the second microelectronic package can include third and fourth microelectronic elements. Each microelectronic element can be electrically coupled to the address bus via the respective connection region.
In one embodiment, the microelectronic assembly can also include a controller element electrically coupled to the address bus. The controller element can be configured to control generation of address signals for transmission on the address bus. In a particular example, each of the first, second, third and fourth microelectronic elements can be configured to apply substantially a same load to the address bus as any other of the first, second, third and fourth microelectronic elements. In an exemplary embodiment, characteristic impedances of the signal conductors between the first and second connection regions, and characteristic impedances of the signal conductors between the second and third connection regions can fall within a same tolerance.
In one example, each of the second, third, and fourth connection regions can be configured to receive address signals from the address bus at respective first, second, and third relative delays from the respective first, second, and third connection regions. Any difference among the first, second, and third relative delays can fall within a same tolerance. In a particular embodiment, each of the second, third, and fourth connection regions can have respective first, second, and third relative electrical lengths from the respective first, second, and third connection regions. Any difference among the first, second, and third relative electrical lengths can fall within a same tolerance.
In one embodiment, each microelectronic element can be electrically coupled to the address bus only at the respective connection region. In a particular example, each microelectronic package can have a substrate, a front surface of each microelectronic element in each microelectronic package can have element contacts thereat, and the front surface of the first and third microelectronic elements can confront a surface of the respective substrate. The front surfaces of the second and fourth microelectronic elements can at least partially overlie a rear surface of the first and third microelectronic elements, respectively. In an exemplary embodiment, each microelectronic package can have a substrate having a surface with substrate contacts thereon.
A front surface of each microelectronic element in each microelectronic package can face away from the surface and can have element contacts thereat coupled with the substrate contacts through electrically conductive structure extending above the front surface. The front surfaces of the microelectronic elements can be arranged in a single plane parallel to the surface. In one example, each microelectronic package can have a substrate. A front surface of each microelectronic element in each microelectronic package can have element contacts thereat and can be arranged in a single plane parallel to a surface of the substrate of the respective microelectronic package. The element contacts of each microelectronic element can face and can be joined to conductive elements at the surface of the substrate of the respective microelectronic package.
In a particular embodiment, each microelectronic element can have memory storage array function. In one embodiment, each microelectronic element can embody a greater number of active devices to provide memory storage array function than any other function. In a particular example, the address bus can be configured to carry all address signals usable by circuitry within the first and second microelectronic packages. In an exemplary embodiment, the address bus can be configured to carry all command signals transferred to each microelectronic package, the command signals being write enable, row address strobe, and column address strobe signals. In one example, wherein the address bus can be configured to carry write enable, row address strobe, and column address strobe signals.
In a particular embodiment, the address bus can be configured to carry all command signals transferred to each microelectronic package, the command signals being write enable, row address strobe, column address strobe, activate, and parity signals. In one embodiment, the address bus can be configured to carry write enable, row address strobe, column address strobe, activate, and parity signals. In a particular example, the microelectronic assembly can also include a circuit panel including the address bus. The first and second microelectronic packages can overlie respective first and second areas of a same surface of the circuit panel.
In an exemplary embodiment, a system can include a microelectronic assembly as described above and one or more other electronic components electrically connected to the microelectronic assembly. In one example, the system can also include a housing. The microelectronic assembly and the one or more other electronic components can be assembled with the housing.
A microelectronic assembly can include a circuit panel comprising a support having an address bus thereon, the address bus comprising a plurality of signal conductors for transmitting address signals, the circuit panel having conductive panel contacts at a surface of the support, the panel contacts being electrically coupled to the signal conductors and comprising first, second, third, and fourth sets of the panel contacts. The microelectronic assembly can also include first and second microelectronic packages each joined to the panel contacts at respective first and second different areas of the surface of the support.
The first package can include first and second microelectronic elements electrically coupled through packaging structure of the first package to the first and second respective sets of panel contacts for receiving the address signals. The second package can include third and fourth microelectronic elements electrically coupled through packaging structure of the second microelectronic package to the third and fourth respective sets of panel contacts for receiving the address signals. Geometric centers of the first, second, and third sets of the panel contacts can have first, second, and third relative separation distances from the geometric centers of the second, third, and fourth sets of the panel contacts, respectively. The first, second, and third relative separation distances can be substantially equal.
In one embodiment, the first and second microelectronic elements can be electrically coupled to the first and second respective sets of panel contacts through first and second respective sets of terminals of the first package, and the third and fourth microelectronic elements can be electrically coupled to the third and fourth respective sets of panel contacts through respective third and fourth sets of terminals of the second microelectronic package. The first and second sets of terminals can be disposed in respective first and second opposite peripheral regions of the first package, and the third and fourth sets of terminals can be disposed in respective third and fourth opposite peripheral regions of the second package.
In a particular example, each peripheral region can occupy a peripheral one-third of a width of a surface of the respective package that faces the surface of the support. In an exemplary embodiment, the terminals can be configured to carry all of the address signals usable by circuitry within the first and second microelectronic packages. In one example, each of the sets of the terminals can be configured to carry all of the same address signals. In a particular embodiment, signal assignments of corresponding ones of the terminals in the first and second sets can be symmetric about a theoretical axis between the first and second sets. In one embodiment, signal assignments of corresponding ones of the terminals in the first and second sets may not be symmetric about a theoretical axis between the first and second sets.
A system can include a support having an address bus thereon comprising a plurality of signal conductors, and first, second, third and fourth sets of conductive contacts at a surface of the support electrically coupled to the signal conductors. Geometric centers of the sets of contacts can be equally spaced from one another along a common theoretical axis. The system can also include a microelectronic package comprising first and second microelectronic elements. At least a first one of the sets of contacts can be electrically coupled to the first microelectronic element. At least a second one of the sets of contacts can be coupled to the second microelectronic element.
In one embodiment, the first microelectronic element can have address inputs coupled only to the first set of contacts, and the second microelectronic element can have address inputs coupled only to the second set of contacts. In a particular example, each microelectronic element can embody a greater number of active devices to provide memory storage array function than any other function. In an exemplary embodiment, each of the sets of contacts can be configured to carry address information usable by circuitry within the microelectronic packages and command signals transferred to the microelectronic packages. The command signals can include write enable, row address strobe, and column address strobe signals.
In some cases, the dielectric element 20 can consist essentially of a material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion (“CTE”) in a plane of the substrate (in a direction parallel to the first surface 21 of the substrate), i.e., a CTE of less than 12 parts per million per degree Celsius (hereinafter, “ppm/° C.”), such as a semiconductor material e.g., silicon, or a dielectric material such as ceramic material or silicon dioxide, e.g., glass. Alternatively, the substrate 20 may include a sheet-like substrate that can consist essentially of a polymeric material such as polyimide, epoxy, thermoplastic, thermoset plastic, or other suitable polymeric material or that includes or consists essentially of composite polymeric-inorganic material such as a glass reinforced structure of BT resin (bismaleimide triazine) or epoxy-glass, such as FR-4, among others. In one example, such a substrate 20 can consist essentially of a material having a CTE of less than 30 ppm/° C. in the plane of the dielectric element, i.e., in a direction along its surface.
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First and second apertures 26a, 26b can extend between the first and second surfaces 21, 22 of the dielectric element 20. As can be seen in
The dielectric element 20 can have a plurality of terminals 25, e.g., conductive pads, lands, or conductive posts at the second surface 22 of the dielectric element 20. As used in this disclosure with reference to a component, e.g., an interposer, microelectronic element, circuit panel, substrate, etc., a statement that an electrically conductive element is “at” a surface of a component indicates that, when the component is not assembled with any other element, the electrically conductive element is available for contact with a theoretical point moving in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the component toward the surface of the component from outside the component. Thus, a terminal or other conductive element which is at a surface of a substrate may project from such surface; may be flush with such surface; or may be recessed relative to such surface in a hole or depression in the substrate.
The terminals 25 can function as endpoints for the connection of the microelectronic package 10 with corresponding electrically conductive elements of an external component such as the contacts of a circuit panel 60, e.g., printed wiring board, flexible circuit panel, socket, other microelectronic assembly or package, interposer, or passive component assembly, among others. In one example, such a circuit panel can be a motherboard or DIMM module board. In a particular example, the circuit panel 60 can include an element having a CTE less than 30 ppm/° C. In one embodiment, such an element can consist essentially of semiconductor, glass, ceramic or liquid crystal polymer material.
In one example, terminals 25a that are disposed in the central region 23 of the second surface 22 of the dielectric element 20 can be configured to carry address signals. These terminals are referred to herein as “first terminals.” The first terminals 25a comprise terminals configured to carry address information. For example, when the microelectronic elements 30a, 30b include or are DRAM semiconductor chips, each group of first terminals 25a can be configured to carry sufficient address information transferred to the microelectronic package 10 that is usable by circuitry within the package, e.g., row address and column address decoders, and bank selection circuitry of one or more of the microelectronic elements 30 to determine an addressable memory location from among all the available addressable memory locations of a memory storage array within a microelectronic element in the package. In a particular embodiment, the first terminals 25a can be configured to carry all the address information used by such circuitry within the microelectronic package 10 to determine an addressable memory location within such memory storage array.
In one example, the first terminals 25a can be configured to carry each of a group of signals of a command-address bus of the microelectronic element; i.e., command signals, address signals, bank address signals, and clock signals that are transferred to the microelectronic package, wherein the command signals include write enable, row address strobe, and column address strobe signals, and the clock signals are clocks used for sampling the address signals. While the clock signals can be of various types, in one embodiment, the clock signals carried by these terminals can be one or more pairs of differential clock signals received as differential or true and complement clock signals.
In a particular example in which the microelectronic elements 30a and 30b include DDR3 type chips, the command signals transferred to the microelectronic elements can include write enable (“WE”), row address strobe (“RAS”), and column address strobe signals (“CAS”). In one example in which the microelectronic elements 30a and 30b include DDR4 type chips, the command signals transferred to the microelectronic elements can include write enable, row address strobe, column address strobe, activate (“ACT”), and parity (“PAR”) signals. Such contacts and/or terminals in packages containing DDR3 or DDR4 chips that are configured to receive the aforementioned command signals can be included in any of the embodiments described herein.
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Typically, the second terminals are configured to carry all bi-directional data signals for writing of data to and for reading of data from random access addressable locations of at least a main memory storage array within each DRAM microelectronic element. However, in some cases, some of the second terminals can carry uni-directional data signals for input to a microelectronic element for writing of data to a memory storage array, and some of the first terminals can carry uni-directional data signals output from a microelectronic element based on data read from a memory storage array.
The microelectronic package 10 can include joining elements 11 attached to the terminals 25 for connection with an external component. The joining elements 11 can be, for example, masses of a bond metal such as solder, tin, indium, a eutectic composition or combination thereof, or another joining material such as an electrically conductive paste, an electrically conductive adhesive or electrically conductive matrix material or a combination of any or all of such bond metals or electrically conductive materials. In a particular embodiment, the joints between the terminals 25 and contacts of an external component (e.g., the circuit panel 60) can include an electrically conductive matrix material such as described in commonly owned U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 13/155,719 and 13/158,797, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference. In a particular embodiment, the joints can have a similar structure or be formed in a manner as described therein.
The microelectronic package 10 can comprise a plurality of microelectronic elements 30 each having a front face 31 facing the first surface 21 of the dielectric element 20. Although the microelectronic elements 30 are shown in
In one example, the microelectronic elements 30 can each comprise a memory storage element such as a dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) storage array or that is configured to predominantly function as a DRAM storage array (e.g., a DRAM integrated circuit chip). As used herein, a “memory storage element” refers to a multiplicity of memory cells arranged in an array, together with circuitry usable to store and retrieve data therefrom, such as for transport of the data over an electrical interface. In one example, each of the microelectronic elements 30 can have memory storage array function. In a particular embodiment, each microelectronic element 30 can embody a greater number of active devices to provide memory storage array function than any other function.
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The central region 37 is disposed between peripheral regions 43a, and 43b, each of which lies between the central region 37 and a respective peripheral edge 32a or 32b, and each peripheral region also occupying an area covering a respective third 41a or 41b of the distance 38 between the opposite peripheral edges 32a, 32b. In the particular example shown in
The microelectronic elements 30 in a microelectronic package 10 can be configured in accordance with one of several different standards, e.g., standards of JEDEC, which specify the type of signaling that semiconductor chips (such as the microelectronic elements 30) transmit and receive through the contacts 35 thereof.
Thus, in one example, each of the microelectronic elements 30 can be of DDRx type, i.e., configured in accordance with one of the JEDEC double data rate DRAM standards DDR3, DDR4, or one or more of their follow-on standards (collectively, “DDRx”). Each DDRx type microelectronic element can be configured to sample the command and address information coupled to the contacts thereof at a first sampling rate, such as once per clock cycle (e.g., on the rising edge of the clock cycle). In particular examples, the DDRx type microelectronic elements can have four, eight or sixteen contacts used for transmitting and receiving bi-directional data signals, each such bi-directional signal referred to as a “DQ” signal. Alternatively, the first terminals of a package can be configured to carry uni-directional data signals such as data signals or “D” signals input to the package and data signals “Q” output from the package, or can be configured to carry a combination of bi-directional and uni-directional data signals.
In another example, each of the microelectronic elements 30 can be of LPDDRx type, i.e., configured in accordance with one of the JEDEC low power double data rate DRAM standards LPDDR3 or one or more of its follow-on standards (collectively, “LPDDRx”). LPDDRx type DRAM chips are available which have 32 contacts assigned to carry DQ signals. There are other differences as well. Each contact 35 on a LPDDRx type DRAM chip may be used to simultaneously carry two different signals in interleaved fashion. For example, each contact 35 on such DRAM chip can be assigned to carry one signal which is sampled on the rising edge of the clock cycle and can also be assigned to carry another signal that is sampled on the falling edge of the clock cycle.
Thus, in LPDDRx type chips, each microelectronic element 30a, 30b can be configured to sample the command and address information input to the contacts thereof at a second sampling rate, such as twice per clock cycle (e.g., on both the rising edge and on the falling edge of the clock cycle). Accordingly, the number of contacts on the LPDDRx DRAM chip that carry address information or command-address bus information can also be reduced. In a particular example of LPDDRx type chips, one or more of the contacts 35 of each microelectronic element 30a, 30b can be configured to carry address information at one edge of the clock cycle and command information at another edge of the clock cycle, such that a single contact can be used to alternatingly receive command and address information. Such contacts and/or terminals that are configured to alternatingly receive command and address information can be included in any of the embodiments described herein.
Electrical connections between the contacts 35 and the terminals 25 can include leads, e.g., wire bonds 40, or other possible structure in which at least portions of the leads are aligned with at least one of the apertures 26. For example, as seen in
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The microelectronic package 10 can also include an encapsulant 50 that can optionally cover, partially cover, or leave uncovered the rear surfaces 33 of the microelectronic elements 30. For example, in the microelectronic package 10 shown in
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Each of the microelectronic packages 10 of the microelectronic assembly 1 can have a similar structure that includes first and second microelectronic elements 30 as described above. As can be seen in
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The microelectronic package 110 can include joining elements 111 attached to the terminals 125 for connection with an external component. The microelectronic package 110 can comprise a plurality of microelectronic elements 130 each having a front face 131 facing the first surface 121 of the dielectric element 120. As further seen in
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In a particular embodiment, the first group 115a of first terminals 125a can be configured to carry all the address information used by the circuitry within the microelectronic package 10 to determine an addressable memory location within the first microelectronic element 130a, and the second group 115b of first terminals 125b can be configured to carry all the address information used by the circuitry within the microelectronic package 10 to determine an addressable memory location within the second microelectronic element 130b. In one example, each group 115a, 115b of first terminals 125a can be configured to carry each of a group of signals of a command-address bus of the corresponding first and second microelectronic element 130a, 130b; i.e., command signals, address signals, bank address signals, and clock signals that are transferred to the microelectronic package.
In one example, the first group 115a of first terminals 125a disposed in the first peripheral region 128a can have signal assignments that are symmetric about a theoretical axis 101 with the signal assignments of the second group 115b of first terminals disposed in the second peripheral region 128b. The theoretical axis 101 extends parallel to the longitudinal axis of each of the apertures and is disposed between the proximate edges of the respective apertures. In a particular embodiment, the first group 115a of first terminals 125a disposed in the first peripheral region 128a may have signal assignments that are not symmetric about a theoretical axis 101 with the signal assignments of the second group 115b of first terminals disposed in the second peripheral region 128b.
Typically, the theoretical axis is disposed at or near the median distance between the proximate edges of the respective apertures. “Symmetric” as used herein in connection with signal assignments of terminals for carrying address information means that the signal assignment of a terminal on a first side of the theoretical axis has a name and numerical weight which are the same as that of another terminal on an opposite side of the axis at a position symmetric about the axis from the terminal on the first side. The “numerical weight” of the address information assigned to a given terminal refers to the place of that address information within the places of an address that is specified by the address information. For example, an address can be specified by 20 address bits A0 . . . A19. Each bit has a numerical weight, from the highest-ordered address information bit A19, which has a numerical weight of 19 representing 2^9 (2 to the power of 19), to the lowest-ordered address information bit A0, which has a numerical weight of zero representing 2^0 (2 to the power of zero), which is the 1's place of the address.
In a particular embodiment, the first and second groups 115a, 115b of first terminals 125a of the microelectronic package 110 can be configured to have modulo-X symmetry about the theoretical axis 101. Microelectronic packages having groups of address and/or data terminals having modulo-X symmetry are shown and described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,441,111 and 9,123,555, which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
In one example of the microelectronic package 110, the first group 115a of the first terminals 125a on a first side of theoretical axis 101 can be electrically coupled with only the first microelectronic element 130a, and the second group 115b of first terminals on a second side of the theoretical axis can be electrically coupled with only the second microelectronic element 130b. In a particular example, the first group 115a of first terminals 125a can be electrically coupled with a first rank or first channel of memory access in the microelectronic package 110, and the second group 115b of first terminals can be electrically coupled with a second rank or second channel of memory access in the microelectronic package.
In one example, second terminals 125b that are disposed in the central region 123 of the second surface 122 of the dielectric element 120 can be configured to carry one or more of data strobe signals, or other signals or reference potentials such as chip select, reset, power supply voltages, e.g., Vdd, Vddq, and ground, e.g., Vss and Vssq. The second terminals 125b may include terminals assigned to carry data signals and also data masks and “on die termination” (ODT) signals used to turn on or off parallel terminations to termination resistors.
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The redistribution contacts 739 of the microelectronic elements 730a and 730b can be disposed in two parallel columns, and the redistribution contacts can be disposed in peripheral regions 738 of the front face 731 of the respective microelectronic element. The peripheral regions 738 of the front face 731 of the microelectronic elements 730 can each occupy a peripheral third of a distance between opposite peripheral edges 732 of the microelectronic element in a direction orthogonal to the edges. The redistribution contacts 739 can be electrically coupled to substrate contacts 727 at the first surface 721 of the substrate 720 by electrically conductive structure, for example, wire bonds 712, extending therebetween. The substrate contacts 727 can be electrically connected with the terminals 725 at the second surface 722 of the substrate 720.
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The microelectronic assembly 100 can include an address bus or command-address bus 103 that can comprise a plurality of signal conductors each passing sequentially through connection regions of the circuit panel 160 such as first, second, third, and fourth connection regions 171, 172, 173, and 174. The bus 103 can extend within or on a support, which may be a portion of the circuit panel 160. The bus 103 can comprise a plurality of signal conductors for transmitting address signals or address and command signals. The circuit panel 160 can have conductive panel contacts 165 at a surface of the support, such as the conductive panel contacts 165a at the first surface 161 of the circuit panel and the conductive panel contacts 165b at the second surface 162 of the circuit panel.
In one example, the address bus 103 can be configured to carry all address signals usable by circuitry within the microelectronic packages 130. In a particular example (e.g., DDR3 chips), the address bus 103 can be configured to carry all command signals transferred to each of the microelectronic packages 130, the command signals being write enable, row address strobe, and column address strobe signals. In one embodiment (e.g., DDR4 chips), all of the command signals transferred to each of the microelectronic packages 130 can be write enable, row address strobe, column address strobe, activate, and parity signals. The first terminals 125a of each of the microelectronic packages 130 can be configured to carry all of the address signals usable by circuitry within the respective microelectronic package.
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On the circuit panel 160, e.g., a printed circuit board, module card, etc., these above-noted signals of the command-address bus: i.e., command signals, address signals, bank address signals, and clock signals, can be bussed to multiple microelectronic packages 110 that are connected thereto in parallel, particularly to first and second microelectronic packages 110a, 110b mounted to opposite surfaces of the circuit panel in a clamshell configuration.
The circuit panel 160 can have pluralities of electrically conductive first and second panel contacts 165a and 165b (collectively panel contacts 165) exposed at the respective first and second surfaces 161, 162. The microelectronic packages 110 can be mounted to the panel contacts 165, for example, by joining elements 111 that can extend between the terminals 125 and the panel contacts.
In one embodiment, the first terminals 125a of the respective microelectronic packages 110 functionally and mechanically matched, such that each of first and second groups 115a and 115b of first terminals can have the same pattern of first terminals 125a at the second surface 122 of the dielectric element 120 of the respective microelectronic package 110 with the same function, although the particular dimensions of the length, width, and height of each microelectronic package 110 can be different than that of the other microelectronic packages.
In one example, each of the sets or groups 115a and 115b of the first terminals 125a of each microelectronic package 130 can be configured to carry all of the same address signals. As can be seen in
The microelectronic assembly 100 can further include a controller package 104 electrically coupled to an address bus or command-address bus 103. The controller package 104 can include a controller element configured to control generation of address signals for transmission on the bus 103. In one example, first and second microelectronic packages 110 can overlie respective first and second areas of a same surface of the support or circuit panel 160, and the controller package 104 can overlie a third area of the circuit panel. Such a controller package 104 may be included in embodiments of the microelectronic assembly 100 where the assembly is a registered DIMM. In other embodiments, the microelectronic assembly may not include the controller package 104 where the assembly is a DIMM without registers, e.g., UDIMM (unregistered DIMM).
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The first terminals 125a of the microelectronic packages 110a and 110c can be electrically coupled to first, second, third, and fourth sets 166, 167, 168, and 169 of the panel contacts 165a. In turn, the first, second, third, and fourth sets 166, 167, 168, and 169 of the panel contacts 165a can be electrically coupled to the signal conductors of the bus 103. In one example (e.g., DDR3 chips), each of the sets 166, 1167, 168, 169 of panel contacts 165a can be configured to carry address information usable by circuitry within the microelectronic packages 110 and command signals transferred to the microelectronic packages, the command signals being write enable, row address strobe, and column address strobe signals. In one embodiment (e.g., DDR4 chips), the command signals transferred to the microelectronic packages can be write enable, row address strobe, column address strobe, activate, and parity signals.
Each of the microelectronic elements 130a, 130b, 130c, and 130d can be electrically coupled to the signal conductors of the bus 103 at a respective one of the connection regions 171, 172, 173, and 174 via a respective set 166, 167, 168, and 169 of the panel contacts 165a and via packaging structure (e.g., first terminals 125a) of the respective microelectronic package for receiving address signals or address and command signals.
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In one embodiment, the geometric centers G1, G2, G3, and G4 of the respective first, second, third, and fourth sets 166, 167, 168, and 169 of the panel contacts 165a can be equally spaced from one another along a common theoretical axis 170 extending parallel to the first surface 161 of the circuit panel 160. As used herein, a statement that elements are “equally spaced” with respect one another along a common theoretical axis means that the actual difference in spacing between adjacent ones of the elements is within a typical manufacturing tolerance known to one skilled in the relevant art.
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In one embodiment, each of the first, second, and third connection regions 171, 172, and 173 can have respective first, second, and third relative electrical lengths (i.e., electrical trace lengths) from the respective second, third, and fourth connection regions 172, 173, and 174, and any difference among the first, second, and third relative electrical lengths can fall within a same tolerance, for example, a same tolerance of ±0.5 mm, or in a particular embodiment, a same tolerance of ±1% of any one of the relative electrical lengths. In a particular embodiment, an electrical trace length between the first and second connection regions 171, 172 can be within a same tolerance of the electrical trace length between the second and third connection regions 172, 173.
In a particular embodiment, each of the second, third, and fourth connection regions 172, 173, and 174 can be configured to receive address signals from the bus 103 at respective first, second, and third relative delays (i.e., electrical propagation delays) from the respective first, second, and third connection regions 171, 172, and 173, and any difference among the first, second, and third relative delays can fall within a same tolerance, for example, a same tolerance of ±1% of any one of the relative delays. In a particular embodiment, an electrical propagation delay between the first and second connection regions 171, 172 can be within a same tolerance of the electrical propagation delay between the second and third connection regions 172, 173.
In one example, a characteristic impedance of the signal conductors of the bus 103 between the first and second connection regions 171 and 172, and the characteristic impedance of the signal conductors between the second and third connection regions 172 and 173 can fall within a same tolerance, for example, a same tolerance of ±5 ohms. Likewise, a characteristic impedance of the signal conductors of the bus 103 between the first and second connection regions 171 and 172, the characteristic impedance of the signal conductors of the bus 103 between the second and third connection regions 172 and 173, and the characteristic impedance of the signal conductors between the third and fourth connection regions 173 and 174 can fall within a same tolerance, for example, a same tolerance of ±5 ohms.
In one example, each of the first, second, third and fourth microelectronic elements 130a, 130b, 130c, and 130d can be configured to apply substantially a same load (i.e., electrical load) to the bus 103 as any other of the first, second, third and fourth microelectronic elements, for example, within a tolerance of ±5 ohms. In a particular embodiment, a difference in electrical load applied to the address bus 103 via the first and second connection regions 171, 172 can be within a same tolerance of the difference in electrical load applied to the address bus via the second and third connection regions 172, 173. For example, the same tolerance of the difference in electrical load applied to the address bus can be within a tolerance of ±5 ohms.
In the examples of the microelectronic assembly 100 described herein having microelectronic packages 110 including microelectronic elements 130 each with independent electrical connections to the address bus or command/address bus 103 (through independent groups 115a, 115b of first terminals each connected to only one of the microelectronic elements), the electrical loads may be distributed more evenly distributed along the signal conductors of the fly-by bus 103.
Compared to the microelectronic assembly 1 of
Although in
In one embodiment, the connection regions 171, 172, 173, and 174 need not all be disposed on a single circuit panel. For example, connection regions 171, 172 to which the microelectronic elements of a first package are coupled can be disposed on a circuit panel other than the circuit panel on which the connection regions 173, 174 coupled to the second package are disposed.
The microelectronic packages, circuit panels, and microelectronic assemblies described above with reference to
In the exemplary system 500 shown, the system can include a circuit panel, motherboard, or riser panel 502 such as a flexible printed circuit board, and the circuit panel can include numerous conductors 504, of which only one is depicted in
In a particular embodiment, the system 500 can also include a processor such as the semiconductor chip 508, such that each module or component 506 can be configured to transfer a number N of data bits in parallel in a clock cycle, and the processor can be configured to transfer a number M of data bits in parallel in a clock cycle, M being greater than or equal to N.
In the example depicted in
Modules or components 506 and components 508 and 511 can be mounted in a common housing 501, schematically depicted in broken lines, and can be electrically interconnected with one another as necessary to form the desired circuit. The housing 501 is depicted as a portable housing of the type usable, for example, in a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant, and screen 510 can be exposed at the surface of the housing. In embodiments where a structure 506 includes a light-sensitive element such as an imaging chip, a lens 511 or other optical device also can be provided for routing light to the structure. Again, the simplified system shown in
It will be appreciated that the various dependent claims and the features set forth therein can be combined in different ways than presented in the initial claims. It will also be appreciated that the features described in connection with individual embodiments may be shared with others of the described embodiments.
Although the invention herein has been described with reference to particular embodiments, it is to be understood that these embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and applications of the present invention. It is therefore to be understood that numerous modifications may be made to the illustrative embodiments and that other arrangements may be devised without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
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