Patent ID: 7605454

Claim:
A memory card comprising: an IC-populated flexible circuitry structure including: flexible circuitry having first and second major sides and card contacts along at least one of the first and second major sides; first, second, third and fourth leaded packaged ICs, each one of which leaded packaged ICs has an upper and a lower major surface and plural peripheral sides, a first plurality of leads emergent from at least a first one of the plural peripheral sides of each of the first, second, third, and fourth packaged ICs, the first major side of the flexible circuitry being populated with the first and second leaded package ICs and the second major side of the flexible circuitry being populated with the third and fourth leaded package ICs so that the lower surface of each of the first and second leaded packaged ICs contacts the first side of the flexible circuitry and the lower surface of each of the third and fourth leaded package ICs contacts the second side of the flexible circuitry; and a case having obverse and reverse sides and framing the first, second, third and fourth leaded packaged ICs, with the upper major surfaces of first and second leaded packaged ICs exposed along the obverse side of the case and the upper major surfaces of third and fourth leaded packaged ICs exposed along the reverse side of the case.