Patent ID: 8217511

Claim:
An integrated circuit assembly, comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB); a panel including: a layer of an encapsulating material, the layer having an upper surface coplanar with an upper surface of the panel and a lower surface coplanar with a lower surface of the panel and wherein the lower surface of the encapsulating layer is in contact with the PCB; a device embedded in the encapsulating material wherein an active surface of the device and the upper surface of the layer of encapsulating material are coplanar; a thermally and electrically conductive slab, wherein an upper surface of the slab is in thermal contact with a backside of the device and a lower surface of the slab is coplanar with the lower surface of the panel and wherein the lower surface of the thermally and electrically conductive slab is in thermal contact with the PCB; an electrically and thermally conductive panel via, embedded in the encapsulating material, laterally displaced from the device within the layer of encapsulating material, and extending from the upper surface of the layer of encapsulating material to the lower surface of the encapsulating layer; and an interconnect layer overlying the upper surface of the panel wherein said interconnect layer includes an insulating film having contacts formed therein and interconnect metallization formed thereon.