Patent ID: 7989929

Claim:
A system for connecting high speed signals to spaced integrated circuit packages, comprising: a pair of spaced integrated circuit packages, each having a top surface, mounted on a signal-interconnection substrate, the substrate including signal paths for slow-speed signals; the integrated circuit packages each being configurable for electrically connecting slow speed signals to said slow-speed signal paths; each of said integrated circuit packages including structure-contact traces configured to electrically couple high speed signals to top surface contacts located on the top surface of said integrated circuit packages, a structure including one or more high-speed electrical traces spanning the space between said integrated circuit packages; the structure spaced from said signal interconnection substrate and physically mounted to respective said top surfaces; a cable connector within which the high-speed electrical traces of the structure terminate, the cable connector being physically mounted on one of said integrated circuit packages, and the cable connector being configured to electrically couple the structure to the structure-contact traces of the one of said integrated circuit packages; and a trace-contact coupler configured to electrically couple the high speed electrical traces on said structure to said top surface contacts.