Patent ID: 6576995
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
A housing for semiconductor chips, each chip having a front side, a rear side, and at least one chip contact on each of the front side and the rear side, comprising:a plastic base substrate having: a height no greater than 2 mm, a width no greater than 2 mm, and a depth no greater than 2 mm; at least one region for accommodating a semiconductor chip having a front side with at least one chip contact and a rear side with at least one chip contact; two mutually opposite sides having a patterned metallization layer, one of said sides contacting the chip and another of said sides contacting an external electrical connection; and at least one channel connecting said two mutually opposite sides; at least two pads formed in said patterned metallization layer on one of said sides of said base substrate, one of said two pads connected to the at least one chip contact on the front side of the chip and another of said two pads connected to the at least one chip contact on the rear side of the chip; at least one pad formed in said patterned metallization layer on another of said sides of said base substrate, said at least one pad connected to the external electrical connection; metal introduced into said at least one channel forming at least one via electrically connecting at least one of said at least two pads to at least one of said at least one pad; a bonding wire; one of said two pads connected to a chip contact of the chip through said bonding wire; and another of said two pads directly applied to another chip contact of the chip.