Patent ID: 7254032

Claim:
A circuit board component, comprising: a substrate having non-conductive material and conductive material supported by the non-conductive material, the conductive material defining (i) a circuit board interface, (ii) a die interface, (iii) a heat spreader interface, and (iv) a set of connections which interconnects the circuit board interface, the die interface and the heat spreader interface; a die coupled to the die interface defined by the conductive material of the substrate, the die including integrated circuitry which is configured to electrically communicate with a circuit board when the circuit board couples to the circuit board interface defined by the conductive material of the substrate; and a heat spreader coupled to the heat spreader interface defined by the conductive material of the substrate, the heat spreader being configured to dissipate heat from the die, the heat spreader in combination with the heat spreader interface forming an electromagnetic interference shield when a portion of the circuit board interface connects to a ground reference of the circuit board through the circuit board interface; wherein the die is disposed between the heat spreader and the substrate, and wherein the circuit board component is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit device, and wherein the heat spreader comprises: a primary portion extending along a flat surface of the substrate in a substantially parallel manner relative to the flat surface of the substrate; a secondary portion extending from the primary portion toward the substrate along a direction substantially perpendicular to the flat surface of the substrate, the secondary portion electrically contacting a conductive ground plane disposed along a flat surface of the substrate; and a conductive around edge extending from the secondary portion along a direction substantially perpendicular to the flat surface of the substrate and overhanging an outer periphery of the substrate, the conductive around edge electrically coupled to a conductive around edge portion of the heat spreader interface that extends along the outer periphery of the substrate.