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Timestamp: 2015-03-31 09:25:04
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 60', 'Application No. 2004', 'Application No. 2004', 'application No. 10', 'Application No. 098139252', 'Application No. 03754585']

This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 11/374,468, filed Mar. 13, 2006, which issued Oct. 9, 2007 as U.S. Pat. No. 7,279,361, titled �Method for making a semiconductor multi-package module having wire bond interconnect between stacked packages�; which is a Division of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/632,549, filed Aug. 2, 2003, which issued Jun. 20, 2006 as U.S. Pat. No. 7,064,426, titled �Semiconductor multi-package module having wire bond interconnect between stacked packages�, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/411,590, filed Sep. 17, 2002, both hereby incorporated herein by reference.
This invention is directed to multi-package modules having stacked packages. According to the invention, z-interconnection between the stacked packages in the MPM is wire bond based. Generally, the invention features various configurations of various stacked packages, and methods for stacking and interconnecting the various packages by wire-bonding based z-interconnection. In the multi-package module according to the invention the package stack can include any of a variety of BGA packages and/or any of a variety of Land Grid Array (�LGA�) packages; the package stack can include wire bonded and/or flip chip packages; the package stack can include a thermal enhancement feature enabled by one or more heat spreaders in or on the stack; the package stack can include one or more packages having a flip chip die bonded either to the top or to the bottom of the BGA or LGA; the package stack can include one or more BGA and/or LGA packages having more than one die in the package stacked or side by side; the stack can include electromagnetic shield for one or more of the packages; and the stack can include any substrate, laminate or build-up or flexible or ceramic, provided that the z-interconnect pads are made available for bonding on the periphery of the packages.
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H01L2224/48091, H01L23/3128, H01L2225/06527, H01L2924/01079, H01L2224/32225, H01L2924/16152, H01L2225/1094, H01L2225/1052, H01L2225/1023European ClassificationH01L23/433E, H01L23/31H2B, H01L25/065S, H01L25/03, H01L25/10J, H01L23/31H4Legal EventsDateCodeEventDescriptionOct 16, 2012CCCertificate of correctionRotateOriginal ImageGoogle Home - Sitemap - USPTO Bulk Downloads - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - About Google Patents - Send FeedbackData provided by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services