Patent ID: 7253517

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a circuit having first, second and third circuit portions, said first circuit portion including at least one semiconductor component and said third circuit portions including at least one semiconductor circuit component, and said second circuit portion including at least one non-semiconductor circuit component and being free of semiconductor circuit components, said second circuit portion having first and second electrically conductive parts, and said third circuit portion having third and fourth electrically conductive parts which are respectively coupled to said first and second electrically conductive parts by a thermosonic bond and a thermocompression bond such that said first and second electrically conductive parts rigidly support said first circuit component adjacent said third circuit component; a first substrate with said first and second circuit portions disposed adjacent one side thereof, said first substrate having a semiconductor portion which has each said semiconductor circuit component of said first circuit portion therein; a second substrate with said third circuit portion disposed adjacent one side thereof, said second substrate being physically separate from said first substrate and being oriented so that said one side thereof faces said one side of said first substrate, and said second substrate having a semiconductor portion which has said at least one semiconductor circuit component of said third circuit portion therein and said second substrate being devoid of any other semiconductor circuit component; and wherein the second substrate and the second circuit portion have no electrical connection therebetween other than any electrical connection formed between the first and second electrically conductive parts of the second circuit portion and the third and fourth electrically conductive parts of the third circuit portion.