Patent ID: 7009288

Claim:
A semiconductor component with an electromagnetic shielding device comprising: a semiconductor chip with a circuit integrated therein with a number of electrical terminal areas and at least one ground terminal area; a package that contains the semiconductor chip, wherein the package further comprises a chip carrier with a number of external terminals and at least one external ground terminal; connection means for electrically connecting the electrical terminal areas to the external terminals and for electrically connecting the at least one ground terminal area to the at least one external ground terminal; wherein the connection means further comprises bond wires that are coated with an electrical insulating layer; wherein the semiconductor chip is encapsulated by a thin film of plastic that covers only portion of the bond wires and provides an insulating passivation; and wherein the semiconductor chip and the bond wires encapsulated in this way are encapsulated with an electrically and thermally conductive first plastics compound, which forms the package, the first plastics compound being connected in an electrically conducting manner to one of a group comprising the at least one ground terminal area and the at least one external ground terminal.