Patent ID: 6933223

Claim:
A method for attaching a wire in a semiconductor device comprising: feeding a wire through a capillary; attaching a first end of the wire onto a first contact point thereby forming a ball bond; raising the capillary straight up from the first contact point while the wire continues to feed out of the capillary; directly after raising the capillary straight up, moving the capillary directly to a second contact point whereby the wire that is fed out of the capillary is drawn towards the second contact point; and directly after moving the capillary to the second contact point attaching the wire to the second contact point thereby forming a stitch bond wherein a segment of the wire near the first contact point forms a wire loop that has a small loop height, whereby the capillary only moves in a single plane between the attachment of the wire to the first and second contact points and the lateral movement of the capillary is in substantially only one direction such that the only substantial lateral movement of the capillary is towards the second contact point.