Semiconductor device having capacitors for reducing power source noise

• US 20070023895A1
• Filed: 08/10/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Inventors: Baba, Shinji, Watanabe, Masaki
• Application Number:
  US11/501,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20070023895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/724
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/02371 connecting the bonding area on a surface of the semiconductor or solid-state body with another surface of the semiconductor or solid-state body
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Abstract

A semiconductor device comprises a BGA substrate having one principal plane furnished with a large number of solder balls, the solder balls constituting a ball grid array; a semiconductor chip mounted on another principal plane of the BGA substrate, the semiconductor chip being electrically connected to the BGA substrate by metal wires; and chip capacitors mounted on the semiconductor chip to reduce power source noise.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A semiconductor device comprising:

a substrate having one principal plane furnished with solder balls;

a semiconductor chip mounted on another principal plane of the substrate, the semiconductor chip being electrically connected to the substrate by metal wires;

chip capacitors mounted on the semiconductor chip; and

a shield plane connected to ground potential and incorporated in the substrate.