Patent ID: 6864166

Claim:
A process of electrically coupling a semiconductor die having an integrated circuit to a substrate, comprising: forming a of multi-layer bond pad by: depositing an intermediate bond layer of a first metal on an outer surface of an integrated bond pad carried by a first surface of the semiconductor die, the integrated bond pad and the integrated circuit being formed of a second metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum and copper; and thereafter, depositing an outer bond layer on the intermediate bond layer, the outer bond layer comprising a third metal, which is different from the first metal and the second metal; positioning the microelectronic component with respect to the substrate with the first surface of the microelectronic component spaced from a contact surface of the substrate; ball bonding a first end of a bonding wire to a contact carried by the contact surface of the substrate, the bonding wire comprising the third metal; and stitch bonding a second end of the bonding wire to the outer bond layer of the multi-layer bond pad.