Microelectronic package for wafer-level chip scale packaging with fan-out
View Patent ↗Apparatuses and methods relating generally to a microelectronic package for wafer-level chip scale packaging with fan-out are disclosed. In an apparatus, there is a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. A microelectronic device is coupled to the upper surface with the microelectronic device in a face-up orientation. Wire bond wires are coupled to and extending away from the upper surface. Posts of the microelectronic device extend away from a front face thereof. Conductive pads are formed in the substrate associated with the wire bond wires for electrical conductivity.
1. A package-on-package device for wafer-level chip scale packaging with fan-out, comprising:
a metal substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface;
the substrate including outer conductive pads and inner conductive pads formed therein from material of the substrate electrically isolated from one another and from a remainder of the substrate;
lower ends of wire bond wires directly coupled to the outer conductive pads along the upper surface for electrical conductivity between the wire bond wires and the outer conductive pads associated therewith;
lower ends of first interconnects directly coupled to the inner conductive pads along the upper surface for electrical conductivity between the first interconnects and the inner conductive pads;
a redistribution layer having second interconnects coupled to the outer and the inner conductive pads along the lower surface for electrical conductivity between the outer and the inner conductive pads; and
a microelectronic device directly coupled to upper ends of the first interconnects for electrical conductivity, wherein the outer conductive pads are located outside of a perimeter of the microelectronic device for the fan-out from the inner conductive pads located below the microelectronic device.
2. The package-on-package device according to claim 1 , wherein the remainder of the substrate is a ground plane.
3. The package-on-package device according to claim 1 , wherein the redistribution layer is a first redistribution layer, the package-on-package device further comprising a second redistribution layer with a bottom surface thereof interconnected to upper ends of the wire bond wires for electrical conductivity.
4. The package-on-package device according to claim 3 , wherein the microelectronic device is a first microelectronic device, the package-on-package device further comprising:
a second microelectronic device interconnected to a top surface of the second redistribution layer for electrical conductivity to the upper ends of the wire bond wires through the second redistribution layer; and
wherein the first interconnects are posts.
5. The package-on-package device according to claim 1 , further comprising a molding material layer disposed around the posts and the microelectronic device.
6. The package-on-package device according to claim 5 , wherein the molding material layer is a first molding material layer, the package-on-package device further comprising a second molding material layer disposed around the wire bond wires.