Christie, Parker & Hale
Functional substrates for packaging semiconductor chips
 A semiconductor chip carrier has a first substrate and at least one second substrate. The first substrate is for carrying at least one semiconductor chip of integrated circuits. The first substrate has predetermined functional elements for connection to the integrated circuits of the at least one semiconductor chip. Such a second substrate is directly coupled to the first substrate. The second substrate is capable of being independently created and has predetermined electrical functional elements for connection to the integrated circuits of the semiconductor chip. The electrical functional elements of each second substrate are of one type and are different than the electrical functional elements of the other second substrates and the first substrate. The second substrate has a top interconnect layer, a bottom interconnect layer, and a plurality of intra-substrate connectors (or through-hole connectors), where the top interconnect layer and the bottom interconnect layer have substantially identical patterns of electrical contacts. The electrical contacts may be deformable bumps, solder bumps, elastomer bumps, or gold bumps. The electrical functional elements are electrically passive circuits, such as capacitors, resistors, or electrical signal conductors. Such a second substrate may include power supply circuits. 
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