Patent ID: 7613009

Claim:
An assembly comprising: an RF electronic component for mounting on a carrier substrate, said RF electronic component including: a housing; at least one electronic device having an input and/or output and incorporated in said housing; at least one input/output terminal for connecting to a connection pad on said substrate; and an electrical transition for providing an electrical connection between said input/output terminal and an input/output of said at least one electronic device incorporated in said electronic component, said electrical transition comprising: a side termination at least partially located on an outer surface of said housing; and an array of conductive through holes formed inside said housing, said array being arranged so that the axes of said through holes are substantially mutually parallel and coplanar, and so that a plane defined by said array of coplanar through holes is parallel to and offset from said side termination, and wherein said array of through holes are connected to form a ground plane at said offset from said side termination; and the carrier substrate having an upper surface on which said RF electronic component is mounted, and having at least one transmission line including a connection pad electrically connected to a respective input/output terminal of said RF electronic component; wherein said offset, the dimensions of said through holes, and the arrangement of said through holes of said side termination are selected so that the electrical properties of said transition between said connection pad and said device input/output are equivalent to the electrical properties of a transmission line of a given characteristic impedance connected to said connection pad.