Patent ID: 8232145

Claim:
A method of forming a flash memory card, comprising the step of: (a) forming an integrated circuit; (b) encapsulating the integrated circuit within a molding compound; (c) forming one or more features into a surface of the molding compound, said step (c) including one of the steps of: (i) drilling one or more holes through an edge of the molding compound, (ii) lasing one or more holes through an edge of the molding compound, (iii) scoring the surface of the molding compound with a laser, and (iv) forming one or more trenches having at least one undercut sidewall within the surface of the molding compound; and (d) affixing a lid onto the surface of the molding compound in an injection molding process, portions of the lid when in a molten state during the injection molding process matingly interconnecting with the one or more features on the surface of the molding compound formed in said step (c) to affix the lid to the molding compound.