Patent ID: 11881461
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a semiconductor die having bond pads on device side surface, the semiconductor die further comprising:
a ground plane spaced from bond pads by a spacing distance, the bond pads having an upper surface for receiving a ball bond, and having an outer boundary, and having vertical sides extending from the upper surface to a bottom surface, the bottom surface formed over the device side surface of the semiconductor die; and
a protective overcoat (PO) overlying the ground plane and overlying the vertical sides of the bond pads, and overlying a portion of the upper surface of the bond pads, and having an opening exposing the remaining portion of the upper surface of the bond pads, the PO having a dielectric constant of less than 3.8, wherein the semiconductor die further comprises a floating trace formed at a distance of less than 4 microns from the outer boundary of a bond pad.