Carrier strip and molded flex circuit ball grid array and method of making
First Claim
1. An article of manufacture comprising an elongated carrier strip including a series of longitudinally spaced apertures and a series of pre-tested and pre-accepted flex circuitry substrates mounted in seriatim over said apertures along the elongated carrier strip, said elongated carrier strip having a greater stiffness than a stiffness of said flex circuitry substrates, each of said flex circuitry substrates having outer peripheral edges in an adhesive connection directly to respective inner peripheral edges of the elongated carrier strip bounding the apertures in said elongated carrier strip, wherein said elongated carrier strip and said flex circuitry substrates remain connected while assembling the flex circuitry substrates into a grid array package and wherein the elongated carrier strip comprises portions surrounding said apertures that remain attached to said flex circuitry substrates and provide stiffness for said flex circuitry substrates when said flex circuitry substrates are removed from said elongated carrier strip to produce resultant grid array packages.
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Abstract
A grid array assembly method and apparatus uses a flex circuitry substrate and includes providing a series of conforming flex circuitry substrates, the flex circuitry substrates include bonding pads and metallization on a first surface and, holes in the substrate which define a contact pad array on the opposite surface. The substrates are tested and acceptable, then mounted on a carrier strip with longitudinally aligned apertures. The carrier strip is typically a metal such as copper. The strip with mounted substrates is then passed to a station where an IC die is mounted on the substrate first surfaces wire bonds are placed from the die to the bonding pads, and the assembly is encapsulated by auto-molding to form a package body. Subsequently, interconnecting bumps are placed on the contact pads and the assembly is removed from the strip.
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23 Claims
- 1. An article of manufacture comprising an elongated carrier strip including a series of longitudinally spaced apertures and a series of pre-tested and pre-accepted flex circuitry substrates mounted in seriatim over said apertures along the elongated carrier strip, said elongated carrier strip having a greater stiffness than a stiffness of said flex circuitry substrates, each of said flex circuitry substrates having outer peripheral edges in an adhesive connection directly to respective inner peripheral edges of the elongated carrier strip bounding the apertures in said elongated carrier strip, wherein said elongated carrier strip and said flex circuitry substrates remain connected while assembling the flex circuitry substrates into a grid array package and wherein the elongated carrier strip comprises portions surrounding said apertures that remain attached to said flex circuitry substrates and provide stiffness for said flex circuitry substrates when said flex circuitry substrates are removed from said elongated carrier strip to produce resultant grid array packages.
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18. Package assemblies comprising:
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an elongated carrier strip having a plurality of apertures; flex circuitry substrates adhesively attached to said elongated carrier strip, each of said flex circuitry substrates covering one of said apertures; bonding pads disposed on said flex circuitry substrates; an integrated circuit die coupled to each of said flex circuitry substrates, said integrated circuit dies having die conductive pads; electrical means coupling said die conductive pads to said bonding pads; encapsulations covering said integrated circuit dies, said die conductive pads and a portion of each of said flex circuitry substrates not covered by said elongated carrier strip; and interconnection members communicating with said flex circuitry substrates, wherein said elongated carrier strip comprises removable portions surrounding said apertures, the removable portions remaining attached to said flex circuitry substrates when said flex circuitry substrates are removed from said elongated carrier strip to produce package assemblies. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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