A structure suitable for connecting an integrated circuit to a supporting substrate wherein the structure has thermal expansion characteristics well-matched to the integrated circuit is an interposer. The integrated circuit and the interposer are comprised of bodies that have substantially similar coefficients of thermal expansion. The interposer has a first surface adapted to electrically and mechanically couple to the integrated circuit. The interposer has a second surface adapted to electrically and mechanically couple to a supporting substrate. Electrically conductive vias provide signal pathways between the first surface and the second surface of the interposer. Various circuit elements may be incorporated into the interposer. These circuit elements may be active, passive, or a combination of active and passive elements.
A SiP (System-in-Package) having large-capacity passive elements incorporated therein or mounted thereon is provided. On an interposer made of a silicon substrate, metal substrate or glass substrate having via-holes formed therein, IC chips, or a plurality of chips, passive elements formed on a silicon substrate, metal substrate or glass substrate, are mounted in a face-up manner and re-wired en bloc on the chip. Because all of the silicon substrate, metal substrate and glass substrate are durable against high-temperature annealing for crystallizing a high-dielectric-constant material, large-capacity passive elements can be formed on the substrate which serves as an interposer or on the re-wiring of the chips to be mounted. It is also allowable that large-capacity passive elements formed on the silicon substrate, metal substrate or glass substrate is divided into chips, and that the resultant chips are mounted together with the IC chips.
A SiP (System-in-Package) having large-capacity passive elements incorporated therein or mounted thereon is provided. On an interposer made of a silicon substrate, metal substrate or glass substrate having via-holes formed therein, IC chips, or a plurality of chips, passive elements formed on a silicon substrate, metal substrate or glass substrate, are mounted in a face-up manner and re-wired en bloc on the chip. Because all of the silicon substrate, metal substrate and glass substrate are durable against high-temperature annealing for crystallizing a high-dielectric-constant material, large-capacity passive elements can be formed on the substrate which serves as an interposer or on the re-wiring of the chips to be mounted. It is also allowable that large-capacity passive elements formed on the silicon substrate, metal substrate or glass substrate is divided into chips, and that the resultant chips are mounted together with the IC chips.
A semiconductor connection substrate which connects a semiconductor element to a mounting substrate such as a printed substrate comprises an insulator substrate, a plurality of electrodes having different areas provided on the insulator substrate, one or more elements selected from a capacitor element of dielectric material sandwiched between the electrodes, an inductor element and resistor element, a metal wiring connecting the elements, a metal terminal part of part of the metal wiring and an organic insulator material covering the elements and the circumference of the metal wiring portion excluding the metal terminal portion.
An integrated circuit, comprising: a predefined block of functional circuitry having a plurality of I/O pins; and a backside I/O pad electrically connected to each I/O pin through a backside via of the integrated circuit.
A printed wiring board, particularly, an interposer 20 for a chip scale package, comprising an outer insulator layer 22 having outer electrodes 31, a conductor layer 21, and an inner insulator layer 23 having inner electrodes 27, the electrodes 31 and/or 27 having been formed by electroplating using, as a negative electrode, a metal plate 32 that has been provided on the outer insulator layer 22 and removed after the electroplating. Having no plating leads, the printed wiring board has the electrodes in an orderly array at a fine pitch and a high density.
