Patent ID: 8373280

Claim:
An assembly component, comprising a housing that includes a first stepped terrace, wherein the first stepped terrace includes a sequence of steps in a vertical direction, wherein each step after a first step in the sequence of steps is offset in a horizontal direction by a first offset value from an immediately preceding step in the sequence of steps, wherein the housing is configured to mate with a set of semiconductor dies such that the set of semiconductor dies are arranged in a stack in the vertical direction, which is substantially perpendicular to a first semiconductor die in the vertical stack, wherein each semiconductor die, after the first semiconductor die, is offset in the horizontal direction by a second offset value from an immediately preceding semiconductor die in the vertical stack, thereby defining a second stepped terrace at one side of the vertical stack, and wherein each semiconductor die comprises a solder pad on a surface of the semiconductor die that is parallel to the horizontal direction and is on the second stepped terrace, and wherein a ramp component that is approximately parallel to a direction along the second stepped terrace is rigidly coupled to each semiconductor die using a corresponding one of the solder pads.