Patent ID: 7968984

Claim:
A circuit board capable of receiving one of a plurality of surface mounted semiconductor device packages, each package including a semiconductor device die and a metal clip including a flat web portion having a bottom surface and at least one peripheral rim portion extending from an edge of said flat web portion, said semiconductor device die including spaced solderable planar metal pads on a bottom surface thereof, the pads including at least one gate pad and a plurality of source pads, wherein each said semiconductor device die includes a different number of source pads, and wherein one of said semiconductor device die includes source pads greater in number than source pads of other semiconductor device die in said plurality of surface mounted semiconductor device packages, the circuit board comprising: a circuit board contact pattern including one or more columns of source contacts for connection to source pads of a respective semiconductor device die and at least one gate contact for connection to a gate pad of said semiconductor device die, wherein said source contacts are greater in number than said source pads of said one of said semiconductor device die, and wherein said circuit board contact pattern is usable by all of said pads of said semiconductor device die of said plurality of semiconductor device packages.