Patent ID: 7471520

Claim:
An electronic assembly, comprising: an interconnection substrate comprising a signal conductor and a ground conductor; a component comprising a device having a signal line and a ground conductor, a package containing the device, an internal signal path electrically coupled to the signal line of the device and having a nominal impedance over a specified bandwidth, and a ground path electrically coupled to the ground conductor of the device, and a signal lead electrically coupled to the internal signal path and having an external portion extending from the package to the signal conductor of the interconnection substrate; and a discontinuity compensator electrically coupling the ground path of the package to the ground conductor of the interconnection substrate and comprising an electrically conducting planar surface oriented in a plane intersecting the interconnection substrate and forming with at least a substantial part of the external portion of the signal lead a transmission line structure having an impedance substantially matching the nominal impedance over the specified bandwidth.