Patent ID: 6459049
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
A circuit board for receiving electrical data signals near a central portion of the circuit board that receives a packaged integrated circuit, and the electrical signals are transferred between a peripheral portion of the circuit board and the packaged integrated circuit:a first set of contacts arranged in an array in the central portion of the circuit board, a second set of contacts in the peripheral portion of the circuit board, and electrically conductive traces connecting the first set of contacts to the second set of contacts, wherein each of the electrically conductive traces has at least a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment, the first segment of each of the electrically conductive traces having a relatively narrow width and spacing and connected to one of the first set of contacts on a first end of the first segment and to the second segment of each of the electrically conductive traces on a second end of the first segment, the second segment of each of the electrically conductive traces having a relatively intermediate width and spacing and connected to the second end of the first segment of each of the electrically conductive traces on a first end of the second segment and to the third segment of each of the electrically conductive traces on a second end of the second segment, and the third segment of each of the electrically conductive traces having a relatively wide width and spacing and connected to the second end of the second segment of each of the electrically conductive traces on a first end of the third segment and to one of the second set of contacts on a second end of the third segment.