Abstract: A cellular telephone is provided with a wearable housing, desirably in a form which can be concealed in the user's clothing, wallet, or other place. The housing may be devoid of switches or buttons for controlling the cellular telephone, and control inputs can be provided through free space communications such as a short-range radio link. A module for use in portable communications devices includes chips superposed on one another on a stack, and incorporates an interposer for facilitating connections between the chips.

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor chip includes features such as a chip carrier having a large thermal conductor which can be solder-bonded to a circuit board so as to provide enhanced thermal conductivity to the circuit board and electromagnetic shielding and a conductive enclosure which partially or completely surrounds the packaged chip to provide additional heat dissipation and shielding. The packaged unit may include both an active semiconductor chip and a passive element, desirably in the form of a chip, which includes resistors and capacitors. Inductors may be provided in whole or in part on the chip carrier. A module includes two circuits and an enclosure with a medial wall between the circuits to provide electromagnetic shielding between the circuits.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip package structure for providing a reliable interface between a semiconductor chip and a PWB to accommodate for the thermal coefficient of expansion mismatch therebetween. The interface between a chip and a PWB is comprised of a package substrate having a plurality of compliant pads defining channels therebetween. The package substrate is typically comprised of a flexible dielectric sheet that has leads and terminals on at least one surface thereof. The pads have a first coefficient of thermal expansion (“CTE”) and are comprised of a material having a fairly low modulus of elasticity. An encapsulant having a second CTE lower than the CTE of the compliant pads is disposed within the channels to form a uniform encapsulation layer. The pads are in rough alignment with the conductive terminals on the package substrate thereby allowing independent movement of the terminals during thermal cycling of the chip.

Abstract: A bonding component for electrically connecting a semiconductor chip or wafer to a support substrate includes a dielectric layer having a central region, elongated slots defining the central region, and a peripheral region surrounding the slots. Metallic bonding pads are arranged on the central region, and leads extend from the bonding pads to the edge of the central region and extending partially across the elongated slots. The leads are detached from the peripheral region of the dielectric layer on the side of the slots opposite the central region. The leads are adapted to be deformed during bonding to a semiconductor chip or wafer. To form the bonding component, a dielectric layer is first provided having a central region, slots and a peripheral region. A metallic structure is also provided having bonding pads on the central region, and leads electrically connected to the bonding pads and to a plating bus disposed in the peripheral region.