Abstract: In a method for the interconnection of stacked packages, each of the packages encapsulating, for example, a semiconductor chip containing an integrated circuit, a memory for example, the packages provided with pins are mounted on a printed circuit board. The printed circuit boards are stacked and fixedly joined with one another by means of a coating, for example a resin coating. The stack is sliced through so as to form bars, the pins of the packages being electrically connected to the side surfaces of the bars by means of the tracks of the printed circuit boards. The connection of the packages to one another is done on the side faces of the bars. The bars are then sliced through to obtain unit blocks of stacked packages.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device particularly adapted for use with the power supply of a computer for controlling the regulating facilities in an electric high-power AC-DC converter of the power supply.This control device (D) comprises a regulation (CC) control comparator connected to the storage facilities (S) of the converter and receiving a reference voltage having a "nominal" value when the converter is normally powered by an AC network and receiving a portion of the output voltage from the converter, the output of said control comparator (CC) supplying an error signal to the regulating facilities (MR) of the converter. The control device also includes facilities (R) for supplying a variable reference voltage to the control comparator (CC) so that at the moment of recovery of the network following a cutoff, the voltage at the input of the filtering facilities (F) of the converter is, at the most, equal to the output voltage of the storage facilities (S).

Abstract: An optical system for projecting patterns in order to reproduce the image of at least one modulating object on a mask or semiconductor wafer coated with photosensitive material for the fabrication of semiconductor components. In this system, optical reflecting means comprising one or a number of plane mirrors including at least one movable mirror are introduced in the optical path of the imaging objective. By forming additional optical paths, it is thus possible to associate with a photorepetition function different functions such as photocomposition or other photorepetition paths, or else to associate a device for ensuring alignment of the object-image planes and comprising optoelectronic detection means.