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Method and apparatus for forming a plastic chip on chip package module
Assignee: National Semiconductor Corp
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Filing: 1999-06-18
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Granted: 2001-05-29
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Expires: 2019-06-18
Abstract
Abstract A method and an apparatus for forming a plastic chip on chip module is disclosed. The plastic chip on chip module is formed by placing a stacked chip set into a molding chamber suitably arranged to receive encapsulant. The stacked chip set includes a daughter chip that is electrically and mechanically coupled to a mother chip where the daughter chip is directly aligned to and separated from the mother chip by a standoff gap. Encapsulant is then passed into the molding chamber filling the standoff gap substantially simultaneously with surrounding the chip set to form the plastic chip on chip module.
Inventors
- 👤 Luu Nguyen
- 👤 Ashok Prabhu
- 👤 Nikhil Kelkar
- 👤 Hem P. Takiar
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 11:47
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10W; H10W74/00; H10W74/01; H10W74/016; H10W74/10; H10W74/111; H10W74/114; H10W90/00; H10W90/811; H10W72/00; H10W72/01; H10W72/012; H10W72/0198; H10W72/071; H10W72/072; H10W72/07231; H10W72/07236; H10W72/07251; H10W72/07252; H10W72/07254; H10W72/073; H10W72/075; H10W72/20; H10W72/221; H10W72/227; H10W72/241; H10W72/247; H10W72/251; H10W72/851; H10W72/853; H10W72/859; H10W72/874; H10W72/877; H10W72/884; H10W72/90; H10W72/921; H10W72/926; H10W72/941; H10W72/9415; H10W72/944; H10W72/9445; H10W72/951; H10W72/952; H10W90/20; H10W90/291; H10W90/701; H10W90/721; H10W90/722; H10W90/724; H10W90/731; H10W90/736; H10W90/751; H10W90/754; H10W90/756
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
124 words
A method of forming a plastic chip on chip package wherein the plastic chip on chip package includes a stacked chip set that includes a daughter chip that is electrically and mechanically coupled to a mother chip, wherein the daughter chip is directly aligned to and separated from the mother chip by a standoff gap, the method comprising: placing the stacked chip set into a molding chamber suitably arranged to receive an encapsulant; passing the encapsulant into the molding chamber; and filling the standoff gap while substantially simultaneously surrounding the chip set with the encapsulant thereby substantially encapsulating the daughter chip and the mother chip within the molding chamber by the encapsulant; and curing the encapsulant to form the plastic chip on chip package.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
124 words
A method of forming a plastic chip on chip package wherein the plastic chip on chip package includes a stacked chip set that includes a daughter chip that is electrically and mechanically coupled to a mother chip, wherein the daughter chip is directly aligned to and separated from the mother chip by a standoff gap, the method comprising: placing the stacked chip set into a molding chamber suitably arranged to receive an encapsulant; passing the encapsulant into the molding chamber; and filling the standoff gap while substantially simultaneously surrounding the chip set with the encapsulant thereby substantially encapsulating the daughter chip and the mother chip within the molding chamber by the encapsulant; and curing the encapsulant to form the plastic chip on chip package.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the daughter chip has a first plurality of interchip bond pads.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
A method as recited in claim 2 , wherein the mother chip has a second plurality of interchip bond pads, wherein most of the second plurality of interchip bond pads are each associated with one of the first plurality of interchip bond pads.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
102 words
A method as recited in claim 3 , wherein the mechanical coupling comprises: depositing a solder ball on selected ones of the first plurality of interchip bond pads; placing the daughter chip in proximate position of the mother chip such that the selected bond pads are directly aligned with corresponding ones of the second plurality of interchip bond pads; and reflowing the solder ball such that the solder bridges the standoff gap in such a way as to promote an electrically conductive path between each of the selected bond pads and the corresponding ones of the second plurality of interchip bond pads.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method as recited in claim 4 , wherein the encapsulant is selected from a group comprising ECN based epoxy mold compound and bi-phenyl based epoxy mold compound.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as recited in claim 4 wherein the standoff gap is approximately at least 4 mils and is at most approximately 6 mils.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
A method as recited in claim 6 wherein the standoff gap is approximately 5 mils.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
94 words
A method of forming a plastic chip on chip package wherein the plastic chip on chip package includes a stacked chip set that includes a daughter chip that is electrically and mechanically coupled to a mother chip, wherein the daughter chip is directly aligned to and separated from the mother chip by a standoff gap, comprising: filling the standoff gap while substantially simultaneously surrounding the chip set with encapsulant thereby substantially encapsulating the daughter chip and the mother chip by the encapsulant; and curing the encapsulant to form the plastic chip on chip package.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
94 words
A method of forming a plastic chip on chip package wherein the plastic chip on chip package includes a stacked chip set that includes a daughter chip that is electrically and mechanically coupled to a mother chip, wherein the daughter chip is directly aligned to and separated from the mother chip by a standoff gap, comprising: filling the standoff gap while substantially simultaneously surrounding the chip set with encapsulant thereby substantially encapsulating the daughter chip and the mother chip by the encapsulant; and curing the encapsulant to form the plastic chip on chip package.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
32 words
A method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising: placing the stacked chip set into a molding chamber suitably arranged to receive encapsulant; and passing the encapsulant into the molding chamber.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method as recited in claim 8 wherein the daughter chip has a first plurality of interchip bond pads.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
43 words
A method as recited in claim 10 , wherein the mother chip has a second plurality of interchip bond pads, wherein most of the second plurality of interchip bond pads are each associated with one of the first plurality of interchip bond pads.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
102 words
A method as recited in claim 11 , wherein the mechanical coupling comprises: depositing a solder ball on selected ones of the first plurality of interchip bond pads; placing the daughter chip in proximate position of the mother chip such that the selected bond pads are directly aligned with corresponding ones of the second plurality of interchip bond pads; and reflowing the solder ball such that the solder bridges the standoff gap in such a way as to promote an electrically conductive path between each of the selected bond pads and the corresponding ones of the second plurality of interchip bond pads.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method as recited in claim 8 , wherein the encapsulant is selected from the group comprising ECN based epoxy mold compound and bi-phenyl based epoxy mold compound.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as recited in claim 8 wherein the standoff gap is approximately at least 4 mils and is at most approximately 6 mils.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
15 words
A method as recited in claim 8 wherein the standoff gap is approximately 5 mils.
References Cited (Backward Citations)
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