Patent ID: 7501698

Claim:
A power distribution network in a semiconductor device package, comprising: a set of rows of ball grid array (BGA) balls; and a set of planes comprising alternating planes from a set of ground planes and a set of power planes, wherein at least one BGA ball from at least one row of BGA balls is coupled to at least one of the planes, at least one row of BGA balls includes one of a set of power balls and a set of ground balls, a first plane and a second plane adjacent to the first plane are not coupled to a first BGA ball located at an edge of the semiconductor device package proximate to a power supply, a third plane or a fourth plane adjacent to the third plane which are located far above the first and second planes is coupled to the first BGA ball, the first BGA ball is in a first row of BGA balls located at an edge of the semiconductor device package proximate to the power supply and coupled to the third and fourth planes, the first and second planes are not coupled to the first row of BGA balls, a second row of BGA balls is proximate the first row of BGA balls, the first plane and the second plane are not coupled to the second row of BGA balls, the third and fourth planes are coupled to the second row of BGA balls, and the first plane and the third plane are power planes and the second plane and the fourth plane are ground planes.