Patent ID: 7719378

Claim:
An electronic assembly comprising: a flexible interconnect cable with first and second terminating ends, the flexible interconnect cable including: a flexible dielectric layer; a flexible conductive layer mounted to a first side of the flexible dielectric layer; a plurality of conductive traces on the flexible conductive layer; the conductive traces including signal and ground conductive traces; the signal and ground conductive traces defining at least one wideband low-loss transmission means for propagating signals at a rate exceeding 10 Gigabits/second (“Gbps”); a flexible ground layer mounted to a second side of the flexible dielectric layer; a plurality of conductive cable pads at the first terminating end, each conductive cable pad terminating a respective conductive trace; a component carrier substrate with conductive pads; an electronic device on the component carrier substrate, the electronic device including solder balls, a first plurality of said solder balls connected to the conductive pads on the component carrier substrate and also connectable to the conductive cable pad at the first terminating end, and a second plurality of solder balls connected to the conductive cable pads at the first terminating end and also connectable to the conductive pads on the component carrier substrate; and, a module connector connected to the second terminating end.