Patent ID: 8810015

Claim:
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system comprising: forming a leadframe with a tiebar having a tiebar contact pad and an outer lead having an outer lead outer pad; forming inner leads arranged in staggered rows on a peel strip; attaching the leadframe to the peel strip around the inner leads; wire bonding a die to the outer lead and the inner leads; forming an adhesion element directly on the tiebar contact pad and between the tiebar contact pad and the peel strip; encapsulating the die and portions of the outer lead and the inner leads with a mold case having a mold case sidewall to form a mold compound, the mold case side wall being aligned with a tapered peel strip side wall without any angles therebetween; removing the peel strip to expose a bottom surface of the inner lead and a portion of the adhesion element wherein the portion of the adhesion element is coplanar with the mold compound; and removing the leadframe to have a bottom plane of the outer lead outer pad having the same plane as the bottom surface of the inner leads.