Patent ID: 7573720

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a processor; a memory; a substrate having an active face upon which active circuitry and signal pads reside, and a back face opposite the active face; an integrated circuit chip having an active face upon which active circuitry and signal pads reside, and a back face opposite the active face; wherein the integrated circuit chip is pressed against the substrate such that the active face of the integrated circuit chip is parallel to and adjacent to the active face of the substrate; wherein capacitive signal pads on the active face of the integrated circuit chip overlap signal pads on the active face of the substrate; wherein at least one signal pad on the active face of the substrate is electrically coupled to a non-adjacent signal pad on the active face of the substrate, wherein the non-adjacent signal pad overlaps a signal pad on an active face of a third integrated circuit chip that is non-adjacent to the integrated circuit chip, thereby allowing the integrated circuit chip to communicate with the third integrated circuit chip; and whereby the integrated circuit chip and the substrate communicate with each other through capacitive coupling via the overlapping signal pads.