Patent ID: 8836092

Claim:
A semiconductor device, comprising: a die pad; a semiconductor die attached to the die pad; a plurality of lead fingers spaced from and projecting outwardly from the die pad, each of the lead fingers having a proximal end close to but spaced from an edge of the die pad and a distal end farther from the die pad; bond wires electrically coupling bonding pads on a surface of the semiconductor die to respective proximal ends of the lead fingers; and an encapsulation material covering the bond wires, semiconductor die and the proximal ends of the lead fingers, wherein at least one thermal dissipating lead finger selected from the plurality of lead fingers has a proximal end closer to the edge of the die pad than proximal ends of lead fingers that are not selected as the at least one thermal dissipating lead finger and wherein the at least one thermal dissipating lead finger is the closest lead finger to a thermal hot spot region of the semiconductor die, wherein the at least one thermal dissipating lead finger includes two or more lead fingers that are the closest lead fingers to the thermal hot spot region of the semiconductor die.