Patent ID: 7375418

Claim:
A circuit module comprised of: a first packaged integrated circuit and a second packaged integrated circuit, each of the first and second packaged integrated circuits having an upper surface, a lower surface and a peripheral wall, emergent from first and second sides of said peripheral wall are leads that each have a shoulder and foot, the shoulders each having a head; a first carrier structure having plural upper and lower connective elements, the upper and lower connective elements being respectively disposed along first and second substantially planar surfaces of the first carrier structure, the upper connective elements being disposed beneath feet of selected leads emergent from the first side of the peripheral wall of the first packaged integrated circuit and the second substantially planar surface of the first carrier structure being disposed along the plane of the heads of selected leads emergent from the first side of the peripheral wall of the second packaged integrated circuit, the first carrier structure having an external section and an internal section which sections are disposed on different sides of a line defined by termini of the feet of leads emergent from the first side of the of the peripheral wall of the first packaged integrated circuit, the external section of the first carrier structure being further from the first packaged integrated circuit than is the internal section, the first carrier structure having a first carrier trace that extends onto the external section of the first carrier structure.