Patent ID: 7309624

Claim:
A method for the fabrication of a semiconductor device comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a frame member; said frame member including: a plate-like frame major portion having a top surface and a bottom surface; a plurality of electrode constituent portions which are projections formed on said top surface of said frame major portion, each of said plural electrode constituent portions having at its top surface a projecting stepped portion and a projected portion and in its bottom surface a recessed portion; and an element housing portion located in a top surface area of said frame major portion surrounded by said plural electrode constituent portions, said element housing portion housing therein a semiconductor element to be fixed thereto; (b) fixing said semiconductor element having a plurality of electrodes to said element housing portion of said frame member; (c) after said step (b), electrically connecting by a fine wire between at least one of said plural electrodes of said semiconductor element and a top surface of at least one of said projecting stepped portions of said plural electrode constituent portions; (d) encapsulating, by a resin, a surface of said frame member on the side where said semiconductor element has been fixed to said element housing portion and has been electrically connected by said fine wire such that at least a top surface of each of said projected portions of said plural electrode constituent portions projects; and (e) after said step (d), grinding said frame major portion of said frame member such that said plural electrode constituent portions are separated from each other to become individual external electrodes each having at its bottom surface said recessed portion, and exposing both a bottom surface of each of said plural external electrodes and a bottom surface of said semiconductor element from said resin.