US20010001292A1 - Through-chip conductors for low inductance chip-to-chip integration and off-chip connections - Google Patents

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US20010001292A1
US20010001292A1 US09/746,534 US74653400A US2001001292A1 US 20010001292 A1 US20010001292 A1 US 20010001292A1 US 74653400 A US74653400 A US 74653400A US 2001001292 A1 US2001001292 A1 US 2001001292A1
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  • the invention relates generally to semiconductor interconnects, and more specifically, to chip-to-chip integration and off-chip connection schemes for semiconductor devices.
  • a typical electronic system may comprise a variety of electronic components, fabricated on a variety of material. Very often, it is impossible for these various components to be integrated on a single substrate due to performance considerations or cost concerns. Consequently, these electronic components are packaged and externally electrically interconnected to function as a unit.
  • a semiconductor device having active devices on the front surface, a first through-chip conductor having first electrical/physical characteristics passing from the front surface of the device to the back surface, a second through-chip conductor having second electrical/physical characteristics passing to the back surface, and an off-chip or chip-to-chip connector electrically connecting the active devices on the front surface to a different level of packaging.
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified diagram of through-chip conductors and connectors for a semiconductor structure in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are cross-sectional views showing a fabrication sequence of the through-chip conductors of FIG. 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a second embodiment of the through-chip conductor of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 5 taken along line 6 - 6 ;
  • FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 are cross-sectional views showing exemplary off-chip connections to various heat sinks and circuit boards using the through-chip conductors of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a fabrication of the chip-to-chip connectors of FIG. 1;
  • FIGS. 11, 12, 13 and 14 are cross-sectional views illustrating a second and third embodiment of the chip-to-chip connectors of FIG. 1;
  • FIGS. 15, 16, 17 , and 18 are cross-sectional views of chip-to-chip connectors of FIG. 1 and respective connections thereof, and
  • FIGS. 19, 20, 21 and 22 illustrate exemplary devices using the chip-to-chip connectors and through-chip conductors of FIG. 1.
  • semiconductor package 10 includes, but is not limited to, semiconductor chips 50 and 15 , with active regions at the front surfaces 60 and 61 of the chips, contact pads 71 , insulated through-chip conductors 30 , thermal through-chip conductor 20 , chip-to-chip connectors 40 , and off-chip connectors 74 .
  • insulated through-chip conductors 30 may be coupled to off-chip connector 74 at the back surfaces of chips 50 and 15 in order to pass or receive electrical and/or physical characteristics (not shown) from the back surface to the front surface of the chips 50 and 15 .
  • insulated through-chip conductors 30 may be coupled to chip-to-chip connectors at the front surface of chips 50 and 15 through contact pads 71 .
  • Chip-to-chip connectors 40 allow electrical characteristics of the active regions at the front surfaces 60 , 61 or electrical/physical characteristics of the back surface of chips 50 and 15 to be passed from one chip to the other.
  • thermal through-chip conductor 20 acts as a heat sink, providing heat dissipation for chip 15 .
  • the interconnections of the present invention provide high system packing densities and, as will be disclosed in greater detail below, also provide low inductance, high performance inter-chip and intra-chip communication and heat dissipation.
  • FIGS. 2 - 4 illustrate exemplary fabrication processes for the through-chip conductors 20 and 30 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • an exemplary completed wafer for a chip comprises wafer substrate 26 on the back surface of the chip, active silicon layer 28 , additional metal and inter-layer devices 32 , an optional nitride and/or laser stop 34 , last metal layer 36 , and final passivation layer 38 .
  • these layers are exemplary layers for a completed wafer, wherein appropriate layers may be added or removed without changing the scope of the present invention.
  • the final passivation layer 38 is not explicitly shown in other figures (e.g., FIGS.
  • Last metal layer 36 may consist of metals such as copper, aluminum, palladium, tungsten, or similar material, and may contain contact pad features, which will be shown further in reference to FIG. 4.
  • the through-chip conductors 20 and 30 are formed by first drilling holes 18 and 19 into the semiconductor substrate as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the holes may be drilled by a variety of methods. Examples include laser drilling, abrasive jet blasting, or chemical etching.
  • the side-walls of the holes are then insulated with insulating material 33 for the insulated through-chip conductor 30 as seen in FIG.4. No insulation is needed for thermal through-chip conductors 20 , since only heat dissipation is desired.
  • An etch may be applied to the insulated through-chip conductor 30 or to the thermal through-chip conductor (see element 20 A in FIG. 8) to couple the conductor to a contact pad 71 .
  • conductive materials 31 such as copper, are plated from the contact pad 71 or deposited into the holes to transform the vias into electrically and/or thermally conductive paths.
  • copper plating is the preferred method of forming through-chip conductors 20 and 30
  • other appropriate processes such as soldering a rod or wire to contact pad 71 after the holes are drilled, may also be used to achieve electrical/thermal conductivity.
  • FIG. 5 A cross-section of a second embodiment of through-chip conductor 30 A is shown in FIG. 5.
  • Through-chip conductor 30 A is fabricated for very high speed interconnections to support high performance operation and is interchangeable with any through-chip conductor 30 illustrated.
  • Through-chip conductor 30 A has an inner conductor 114 , an insulation layer 116 (e.g., SiO2), and an outer conductor 112 .
  • Inner and outer conductors extend out 122 , 123 from the substrate for accessibility.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 5 taken along line 6 - 6 .
  • the inductance for a line segment length X (FIG. 5) is given by the equation:
  • the typical wirebond inductance is approximately 5 to 7 nanohenry (nhy).
  • the value of the inductance L for this example of the present invention is approximately 0.02 nhy.
  • the extension 122 of the inner conductor 114 will add to the series inductance, and may add up to twenty percent of the segment for each line segment. However, even if L is increased from 0.02 nhy to 0.024 nhy, L is still more than 100 times smaller than the inductance of a wirebond connection.
  • Typical chip input capacitance is approximately 5 to 7 picofarads (pf).
  • the capacitance of segment X is at least 25 times smaller than the chip input capacitance, therefore, the additional capacitive loading of the through chip connection is negligible.
  • Rho conductivity of the conductor
  • FIGS. 7 - 9 illustrate exemplary chip-to-circuit board connections using through-chip conductors in accordance with the present invention.
  • chip 15 comprises insulated through-chip conductors 30 , contact pads 71 and active region 61 .
  • the integrated copper (or copper-invar-copper) core board 16 comprises an embedded heat sink 41 , insulating layer 48 and electrical region 52 .
  • Chip 15 is connected to the integrated copper core board 16 through interconnect material 44 (e.g., solder) and insulated through-chip conductors 30 . That is, insulated through-chip conductors 30 provide a low inductance electrical connection between the chip's active region 61 and the electrical region 52 of the circuit board 16 .
  • interconnect material 44 e.g., solder
  • a thermal bond 46 is created between heat sink 41 and the back surface of chip 15 allowing for removal of additional heat in high power applications.
  • through-chip conductors are shown in this and other examples, it is to be understood that any desired amount of through-chip conductors may be used.
  • Heat transfer may be maximized through use of thermal through-chip conductors 20 A connecting to an external heat sink 56 and the integrated copper core board 16 through thermal interconnects 51 and 45 (e.g., solder), and thermal path 53 as shown in FIG. 8.
  • Thermal through-chip conductor 20 which does not penetrate the front surface of the chip but terminates close to the active circuit region 61 , directly connects to heat sink 41 to provide additional and enhanced localized cooling.
  • thermal through-chip conductors 20 A and 20 are shown, insulated through-chip conductors 30 may also be used to dissipate heat, or to pass electrical power through either heat sink into the chip for system use.
  • Heat is now removed from chip 15 through external heat sink 56 , heat sink 41 , which directly connects to the chip's back surface, and through the thermal path 53 to the copper core of circuit board 16 .
  • the thermal through-chip conductors 20 A maintain a uniform temperature distribution within chip 15 , and allow the integration of a three-dimensional external heat sink 56 to conduct heat from regions which require such cooling.
  • Chip 15 may also be connected to a circuit board 17 without a heat sink as shown in FIG. 9.
  • thermal conductivity is moderate, thus a thermal through-chip conductor 20 connected to a thermal path 55 , or one that does not contact the circuit board (not shown) may be used as a heat sink 54 .
  • an insulated through-chip conductor 30 is also used as an electrical conductive path from circuit board 17 to front surface 61 of chip 15 .
  • FIGS. 10 - 22 illustrate the fabrication of chip-to-chip connectors and the use thereof with through-chip conductors to connect two or more chips or similar devices.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates an example of the fabrication of chip-to-chip connectors 40 . Although for this example only two sizes 40 A and 40 B of chip-to-chip connectors are shown, it is to be understood that any appropriate amount and size of chip-to-chip connector may be used for this and subsequent examples.
  • a dielectric layer 97 e.g., a silicon-nitride layer (SiN)
  • SiO silicon-oxide
  • SiN silicon-oxide
  • the contact pads 71 are then exposed through an etching process and a first sacrificial insulation layer 101 is deposited to define the height of the smallest chip-to-chip connector 40 B.
  • Via holes 77 are then etched into the first sacrificial insulation layer 101 and copper 79 is plated to the surface of the via hole 77 .
  • the sacrificial insulation 101 undergoes a chemical mechanical polish (CMP), and a second sacrificial insulation layer 103 is deposited thereupon.
  • a via hole is etched wherein a solder layer of uniform thickness 75 is plated.
  • a second, taller chip-to-chip connector 40 A is then similarly fabricated by depositing a third sacrificial layer 105 , etching via hole 87 , plating the hole with copper plating 89 , depositing a fourth sacrificial layer 107 and plating a second solder layer 85 . All sacrificial insulating layers are then removed, with dielectric layer 97 , or optionally dielectric layer 95 acting as an etch stop.
  • Using sacrificial insulating layers and via etching as described above provides multiple chip-to-chip connectors of the same height. This process also allows for chip-to-chip connectors of varying heights, which can accommodate chips of different sizes, decoupling capacitors for power supply decoupling, heat sinks, etc. as will be illustrated in FIGS. 19 and 20. Additionally, the process allows for much tighter connector-to-connector spacings, less than 10 ⁇ m for example.
  • FIGS. 11 - 14 a chip-to-chip connector 40 C or 40 D may also be fabricated to form a coaxial high performance connection between chips.
  • FIG. 11 illustrates a chip-to-chip connector 40 C comprising a center conductor/connector 40 A and an outer conductor 152 .
  • Connector 40 A connects the signal pad 158 of chip 15 to pad 160 on chip 50 .
  • Outer conductor 152 is connected to ground pads, 154 and 156 , although other options are possible.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates the perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 11 taken along line 12 - 12 .
  • chip-to-chip connector 40 D comprises two center connectors 40 A and outer conductor 152 .
  • Connectors 40 A connects two different signal pads 158 and 159 of chip 15 to pads 160 and 161 , respectively, on chip 50 .
  • outer conductor 152 is connected to ground pads, 154 and 156 .
  • FIG. 14 illustrates the perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 13 taken along line 14 - 14 .
  • conductors connecting signal pads may alter with conductors connecting ground pads.
  • chip-to-chip connectors as shown in FIGS. 11 - 14 or other suitable arrangements, provide substantial improved electrical characteristics of connections between chips 15 and 50 .
  • the center connector 40 A is 500 ⁇ m long, the time delay between chips 15 and 50 is less than 2 ps.
  • chip-to-chip connector 40 may be used to connect chips with contact pads having the same periodicity (i.e., the contact pads line up with each other, see FIGS. 15 and 16), or different periodicities (see FIGS. 17 and 18). Although specific examples and connections are shown for FIGS. 15 - 18 , other appropriate examples may also be used.
  • the contact pads 71 of chip 15 may be directly connected to the contact pads 128 of chip 50 with chip-to-chip connectors 40 .
  • elements 128 and 71 are described in this specific example as contact pads, elements 128 and 71 may also be a relatively wide buslines connected directly by chip-to-chip connector 40 .
  • FIG. 16 shows the top view of contact pads 128 on chip 50 .
  • FIG. 17 illustrates how to connect chip 15 to chip wiring or busline 130 in chip 51 with a much tighter periodicity.
  • the contact pads are connected by using a stud 131 between the busline 130 and a pad layer 132 .
  • the pad layers 132 are then staggered as shown in FIG. 18, which permits the connection of the contact pads 71 of chip 15 with the busline 130 of chip 51 .
  • FIG. 18 shows the top view of this arrangement. With such an arrangement, it would be possible, for example, to connect array drivers in one technology in a first chip to array lines in a memory chip, thus providing higher performance of the system.
  • FIGS. 19 and 20 illustrate the use of chip-to-chip connectors of mixed heights to accommodate different chip sizes and structures.
  • the active region of chip 50 is connected via chip-to-chip connectors 40 to the active region of chip 15 .
  • the external connections and electrical connections such as power, ground and signal (not shown) are made from the back surface of chip 15 , and are conducted to the active regions of chip 50 and 15 via through-chip conductors 30 .
  • the thermal path is shown from the back surface of chip 15 through thermal through-chip conductors 20 A, chip-to-chip connectors 40 A, thermal adhesive 149 , to external heat sink 56 .
  • Heat sink 56 provides cooling of chip 15 through the tall chip-to-chip connectors 40 A, and direct cooling to chip 50 .
  • the taller connectors 40 A have more ability to flex than the smaller connectors, and thus can support greater mechanical stress.
  • FIG. 20 illustrates a power supply decoupling capacitor configuration with mixed tall and short chip-to-chip connectors 40 A and 40 on chip 15 .
  • Chip 15 may receive external electrical connections (not shown) through the back surface that includes power supply, ground and signal. The electrical characteristics are then conducted to the active regions of chip 50 and chip 15 through through-chip conductors 30 and chip-to-chip connectors 40 A.
  • Decoupling capacitors 136 are mounted on the front surface of chip 15 and on the back surface of chip 50 .
  • Chip-to-chip connectors 40 A have sufficient height to accommodate the decoupling capacitors 136 .
  • the connections in FIGS. 19 and 20 are point-to-point connections, wherein only one connection is made to each of the chips in the stack. Point-to-point connections allow for minimized loading at each of the stack connections and thus faster performance of the system. More connections, though, and consequently, more space is required for point-to-point connections.
  • FIGS. 21 and 22 illustrate the ability to stack similar chips while providing high speed chip-to-chip connections through the silicon.
  • a stack of chips 142 , 144 , 146 and 148 is mounted directly on device 140 , such as a logic chip, carry-card, microprocessor, controller, etc. , to minimize latency between the device and chips and to maximize bandwidth.
  • Each chip is mounted with the active area facing down, and is configured for its position in the stack.
  • the first four connections connect the device 140 to each chip, wherein the first connection connects to a receiver on chip 148 and requires three chip-to-chip connectors to reach it, the second connection connects to chip 146 , the third connection to chip 144 and the fourth connection to a low capacitance receiver on chip 142 .
  • Each of the next four connections shown connect to all four chips. These last four connections allow for parallel input/output connections.
  • FIG. 22 shows device 140 having through-chip conductors , such that the stack may be mounted with two chips on each side of the processor for even higher performance.
  • the round trip delay through one segment is less than 2 picoseconds (ps).
  • the round trip delay is less than 8 ps, and for a stack of chips as high as 20, the round trip delay is less than 40 ps.
  • the inductance for a 20 chip stack, with 20 segments is less than 1 ⁇ 2nhy, and the capacitance for 20 segments is less than 4 pf.
  • the combined inductance and capacitance of a stack of 20 chips may be treated as lumped elements up to a frequency of 4 Giga Hertz (GHz). Above 4 GHz, the segments would behave as transmission lines requiring terminations. Furthermore, connections inside silicon are capable of very high frequency characteristics without cross talk and without radiation.
  • the through-chip conductors and connectors according to an embodiment of the present invention provides high system packing densities, as well as low inductance, high performance inter-chip and intra-chip communication and heat dissipation.

Abstract

Through-chip conductors for low inductance chip-to-chip integration and off-chip connections in a semiconductor package is disclosed. A semiconductor device has active devices on the front surface, a first through-chip conductor having first electrical/physical characteristics passing from the front surface of the device to the back surface, a second through-chip conductor having second electrical/physical characteristics passing to the back surface, and an off-chip or chip-to-chip connector electrically connecting the active devices on the front surface to a different level of packaging.

Description

    BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • 1. 1. Technical Field
  • 2. The invention relates generally to semiconductor interconnects, and more specifically, to chip-to-chip integration and off-chip connection schemes for semiconductor devices.
  • 3. 2. Background Art
  • 4. A typical electronic system may comprise a variety of electronic components, fabricated on a variety of material. Very often, it is impossible for these various components to be integrated on a single substrate due to performance considerations or cost concerns. Consequently, these electronic components are packaged and externally electrically interconnected to function as a unit.
  • 5. In the past, semiconductor packages have been electrically interconnected through wire bonding and/or the use of a C4 flip chip. Unfortunately, as packages become more dense and total performance gain becomes more important for high power chips in the system, the use of wire bonding and flip chips to form off-chip connections is not practical in many applications. Specifically, a significant performance degradation is caused by a wire bond induced parasitic inductance from a chip to a printed circuit board. Although a flip chip overcomes the parasitic inductance problem, the thermal properties of the flip chip severely limit the ability to cool high power chips, and adding an external heat sink to provide thermal conduction causes packaging constraint and increased chip operation ambient temperature.
  • 6. There are inventions in the past with electronic components stacked together, whereby electrical communication between components are made possible via feed-throughs in the semiconductor bodies. Examples are found in the following U.S. Patents: U.S. Pat. No. 5,128,831, issued to Fox, III et al. in July 1992; U.S. Pat. No. 5,481,133, issued to Hsu in January 1996; U.S. Pat. No. 5,424,245, issued to Gurtler et al. in June 1995; U.S. Pat. No. 5,202,754, issued to Bertin et al. in April 1993; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,270,261, issued to Bertin et al. in December 1993. Although feed-throughs are used in the stacks, the assembled stacks are then attached onto a printed circuit board with the off-chip wiring schemes, long routing traces and all the associated prior art shortfalls. Furthermore, the aforementioned patents do not provide proper heat dissipation for high power chips, and low inductance connections to different levels of packaging, such as a circuit board.
  • SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • 7. It is thus an advantage of the present invention to provide a through-chip conductors and chip-to-chip and off-chip connections for a semiconductor device and the method for making the same that eliminates the above described defects.
  • 8. The advantages of the invention are realized by a semiconductor device having active devices on the front surface, a first through-chip conductor having first electrical/physical characteristics passing from the front surface of the device to the back surface, a second through-chip conductor having second electrical/physical characteristics passing to the back surface, and an off-chip or chip-to-chip connector electrically connecting the active devices on the front surface to a different level of packaging.
  • 9. The foregoing and other advantages and features of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
  • BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • 10. The preferred exemplary embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, where like designations denote like elements, and:
  • 11.FIG. 1 is a simplified diagram of through-chip conductors and connectors for a semiconductor structure in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
  • 12.FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are cross-sectional views showing a fabrication sequence of the through-chip conductors of FIG. 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
  • 13.FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a second embodiment of the through-chip conductor of FIG. 1;
  • 14.FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 5 taken along line 6-6;
  • 15.FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 are cross-sectional views showing exemplary off-chip connections to various heat sinks and circuit boards using the through-chip conductors of FIG. 1;
  • 16.FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a fabrication of the chip-to-chip connectors of FIG. 1;
  • 17.FIGS. 11, 12, 13 and 14 are cross-sectional views illustrating a second and third embodiment of the chip-to-chip connectors of FIG. 1;
  • 18.FIGS. 15, 16, 17, and 18 are cross-sectional views of chip-to-chip connectors of FIG. 1 and respective connections thereof, and
  • 19.FIGS. 19, 20, 21 and 22 illustrate exemplary devices using the chip-to-chip connectors and through-chip conductors of FIG. 1.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • 20. Referring to FIG. 1, a simplified diagram of a portion of a semiconductor package 10 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown. For this example, semiconductor package 10 includes, but is not limited to, semiconductor chips 50 and 15, with active regions at the front surfaces 60 and 61 of the chips, contact pads 71, insulated through-chip conductors 30, thermal through-chip conductor 20, chip-to-chip connectors 40, and off-chip connectors 74. As shown, insulated through-chip conductors 30 may be coupled to off-chip connector 74 at the back surfaces of chips 50 and 15 in order to pass or receive electrical and/or physical characteristics (not shown) from the back surface to the front surface of the chips 50 and 15. Furthermore, insulated through-chip conductors 30 may be coupled to chip-to-chip connectors at the front surface of chips 50 and 15 through contact pads 71. Chip-to-chip connectors 40 allow electrical characteristics of the active regions at the front surfaces 60, 61 or electrical/physical characteristics of the back surface of chips 50 and 15 to be passed from one chip to the other. In this example, thermal through-chip conductor 20 acts as a heat sink, providing heat dissipation for chip 15. As can be seen, the interconnections of the present invention provide high system packing densities and, as will be disclosed in greater detail below, also provide low inductance, high performance inter-chip and intra-chip communication and heat dissipation.
  • 21. FIGS. 2-4 illustrate exemplary fabrication processes for the through- chip conductors 20 and 30 according to a first embodiment of the present invention. As seen in FIG. 2, an exemplary completed wafer for a chip comprises wafer substrate 26 on the back surface of the chip, active silicon layer 28, additional metal and inter-layer devices 32, an optional nitride and/or laser stop 34, last metal layer 36, and final passivation layer 38. As aforementioned, these layers are exemplary layers for a completed wafer, wherein appropriate layers may be added or removed without changing the scope of the present invention. Also, although the final passivation layer 38 is not explicitly shown in other figures (e.g., FIGS. 1, 7, 8 etc.), it is to be understood that the final passivation layer 38 exists on each chip for the protection and isolation of the chip and only where contact is to be made, such as with a contact pad 71, a portion of the final passivation layer 38 will be removed (e.g., see FIG. 10). The thickness of the wafer is typically in the range of 250-300 micrometers (μm). Last metal layer 36 may consist of metals such as copper, aluminum, palladium, tungsten, or similar material, and may contain contact pad features, which will be shown further in reference to FIG. 4.
  • 22. The through- chip conductors 20 and 30 are formed by first drilling holes 18 and 19 into the semiconductor substrate as shown in FIG. 3. The holes may be drilled by a variety of methods. Examples include laser drilling, abrasive jet blasting, or chemical etching. The side-walls of the holes are then insulated with insulating material 33 for the insulated through-chip conductor 30 as seen in FIG.4. No insulation is needed for thermal through-chip conductors 20, since only heat dissipation is desired. An etch may be applied to the insulated through-chip conductor 30 or to the thermal through-chip conductor (see element 20A in FIG. 8) to couple the conductor to a contact pad 71. Finally, conductive materials 31, such as copper, are plated from the contact pad 71 or deposited into the holes to transform the vias into electrically and/or thermally conductive paths. Although copper plating is the preferred method of forming through- chip conductors 20 and 30, other appropriate processes, such as soldering a rod or wire to contact pad 71 after the holes are drilled, may also be used to achieve electrical/thermal conductivity.
  • 23. A cross-section of a second embodiment of through-chip conductor 30A is shown in FIG. 5. Through-chip conductor 30A is fabricated for very high speed interconnections to support high performance operation and is interchangeable with any through-chip conductor 30 illustrated. Through-chip conductor 30A has an inner conductor 114, an insulation layer 116 (e.g., SiO2), and an outer conductor 112. Inner and outer conductors extend out 122, 123 from the substrate for accessibility. FIG. 6 illustrates the perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 5 taken along line 6-6. The inductance for a line segment length X (FIG. 5) is given by the equation:
  • L=(uX/2Π)1n(r1/r2)
  • 24. wherein:
  • 25. L=inductance;
  • 26. u=magnetic permeability;
  • 27. X=line segment length;
  • 28. r1=inner conductor radius; and
  • 29. r2=outer conductor radius.
  • 30. The typical wirebond inductance is approximately 5 to 7 nanohenry (nhy). In comparison, with an inner radius r1=21.2 micrometers (μm), an outer radius r2=31.2 μm, a segment length X=250 μm, and a magnetic permeability of free space, u=u0 (there is no magnetic material in the structure), the value of the inductance L for this example of the present invention is approximately 0.02 nhy. The extension 122 of the inner conductor 114 will add to the series inductance, and may add up to twenty percent of the segment for each line segment. However, even if L is increased from 0.02 nhy to 0.024 nhy, L is still more than 100 times smaller than the inductance of a wirebond connection.
  • 31. The capacitance value for the segment of length X is given by the equation:
  • C=(ε/t0X)(2Πr1)X
  • 32. wherein:
  • 33. C=capacitance;
  • 34. ε=electrical permitivity;
  • 35. t0X=dielectric thickness;
  • 36. r1=inner conductor radius; and
  • 37. X=line segment length.
  • 38. Typical chip input capacitance is approximately 5 to 7 picofarads (pf). In this example, the approximate value of the capacitance C equals 0.2 pf for a dielectric thickness t0X=10 μm, a relative dielectric constant εr=4 (e.g., SiO2), r1=21.2 μm and X=250 μm. The capacitance of segment X is at least 25 times smaller than the chip input capacitance, therefore, the additional capacitive loading of the through chip connection is negligible.
  • 39. The resistance value for the segment of length X is given by the equation:
  • R=(Rho)(X/Area); Area=2Πr12
  • 40. wherein:
  • 41. R=resistance;
  • 42. Rho=conductivity of the conductor;
  • 43. X=line segment length; and
  • 44. r1=inner conductor radius.
  • 45. The resistance of a copper segment X=250 μm in length, with a radius r1=21.2 μm is approximately R=1.4 miliohms, which is a negligible increase in resistance.
  • 46. FIGS. 7-9 illustrate exemplary chip-to-circuit board connections using through-chip conductors in accordance with the present invention. As seen in FIG. 7, chip 15 comprises insulated through-chip conductors 30, contact pads 71 and active region 61. The integrated copper (or copper-invar-copper) core board 16 comprises an embedded heat sink 41, insulating layer 48 and electrical region 52. Chip 15 is connected to the integrated copper core board 16 through interconnect material 44 (e.g., solder) and insulated through-chip conductors 30. That is, insulated through-chip conductors 30 provide a low inductance electrical connection between the chip's active region 61 and the electrical region 52 of the circuit board 16. A thermal bond 46 is created between heat sink 41 and the back surface of chip 15 allowing for removal of additional heat in high power applications. Although only two through-chip conductors are shown in this and other examples, it is to be understood that any desired amount of through-chip conductors may be used.
  • 47. Heat transfer may be maximized through use of thermal through-chip conductors 20A connecting to an external heat sink 56 and the integrated copper core board 16 through thermal interconnects 51 and 45 (e.g., solder), and thermal path 53 as shown in FIG. 8. Thermal through-chip conductor 20, which does not penetrate the front surface of the chip but terminates close to the active circuit region 61, directly connects to heat sink 41 to provide additional and enhanced localized cooling. Although thermal through- chip conductors 20A and 20 are shown, insulated through-chip conductors 30 may also be used to dissipate heat, or to pass electrical power through either heat sink into the chip for system use. Heat is now removed from chip 15 through external heat sink 56, heat sink 41, which directly connects to the chip's back surface, and through the thermal path 53 to the copper core of circuit board 16. The thermal through-chip conductors 20A maintain a uniform temperature distribution within chip 15, and allow the integration of a three-dimensional external heat sink 56 to conduct heat from regions which require such cooling.
  • 48. Chip 15 may also be connected to a circuit board 17 without a heat sink as shown in FIG. 9. In this case, thermal conductivity is moderate, thus a thermal through-chip conductor 20 connected to a thermal path 55, or one that does not contact the circuit board (not shown) may be used as a heat sink 54. In this example, an insulated through-chip conductor 30 is also used as an electrical conductive path from circuit board 17 to front surface 61 of chip 15.
  • 49. FIGS. 10-22 illustrate the fabrication of chip-to-chip connectors and the use thereof with through-chip conductors to connect two or more chips or similar devices.
  • 50.FIG. 10 illustrates an example of the fabrication of chip-to-chip connectors 40. Although for this example only two sizes 40A and 40B of chip-to-chip connectors are shown, it is to be understood that any appropriate amount and size of chip-to-chip connector may be used for this and subsequent examples. Before fabrication of chip-to-chip connectors 40, a dielectric layer 97, (e.g., a silicon-nitride layer (SiN)), may be deposited over other existing dielectric layers, such as silicon-oxide (SiO) layer 91, SiN layer 93 and SiO layer 95 of chip 15 to act as a barrier layer. The contact pads 71 are then exposed through an etching process and a first sacrificial insulation layer 101 is deposited to define the height of the smallest chip-to-chip connector 40B. Via holes 77 are then etched into the first sacrificial insulation layer 101 and copper 79 is plated to the surface of the via hole 77. As aforementioned in reference to the through-chip conductors, although copper is shown and preferred for this and other examples, other conductive materials and metals may also be used. The sacrificial insulation 101 undergoes a chemical mechanical polish (CMP), and a second sacrificial insulation layer 103 is deposited thereupon. A via hole is etched wherein a solder layer of uniform thickness 75 is plated. A second, taller chip-to-chip connector 40A is then similarly fabricated by depositing a third sacrificial layer 105, etching via hole 87, plating the hole with copper plating 89, depositing a fourth sacrificial layer 107 and plating a second solder layer 85. All sacrificial insulating layers are then removed, with dielectric layer 97, or optionally dielectric layer 95 acting as an etch stop.
  • 51. Using sacrificial insulating layers and via etching as described above provides multiple chip-to-chip connectors of the same height. This process also allows for chip-to-chip connectors of varying heights, which can accommodate chips of different sizes, decoupling capacitors for power supply decoupling, heat sinks, etc. as will be illustrated in FIGS. 19 and 20. Additionally, the process allows for much tighter connector-to-connector spacings, less than 10 μm for example.
  • 52. As shown in FIGS. 11-14, a chip-to- chip connector 40C or 40D may also be fabricated to form a coaxial high performance connection between chips. FIG. 11 illustrates a chip-to-chip connector 40C comprising a center conductor/connector 40A and an outer conductor 152. Connector 40A connects the signal pad 158 of chip 15 to pad 160 on chip 50. Outer conductor 152 is connected to ground pads, 154 and 156, although other options are possible. FIG. 12 illustrates the perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 11 taken along line 12-12.
  • 53. In FIG. 13, chip-to-chip connector 40D comprises two center connectors 40A and outer conductor 152. Connectors 40A connects two different signal pads 158 and 159 of chip 15 to pads 160 and 161, respectively, on chip 50. Again, outer conductor 152 is connected to ground pads, 154 and 156. FIG. 14 illustrates the perspective view of the cross-section illustrated in FIG. 13 taken along line 14-14. Although not shown, other arrangements may be made to improve conduction of chip-to-chip electrical characteristics, for example, conductors connecting signal pads may alter with conductors connecting ground pads. Thus, chip-to-chip connectors as shown in FIGS. 11-14, or other suitable arrangements, provide substantial improved electrical characteristics of connections between chips 15 and 50. As an example, for FIG. 11, if the center connector 40A is 500 μm long, the time delay between chips 15 and 50 is less than 2 ps.
  • 54. As shown in FIGS. 15-18, chip-to-chip connector 40 may be used to connect chips with contact pads having the same periodicity (i.e., the contact pads line up with each other, see FIGS. 15 and 16), or different periodicities (see FIGS. 17 and 18). Although specific examples and connections are shown for FIGS. 15-18, other appropriate examples may also be used.
  • 55. As seen in FIG. 15, with similar periodicities, the contact pads 71 of chip 15 may be directly connected to the contact pads 128 of chip 50 with chip-to-chip connectors 40. Although elements 128 and 71 are described in this specific example as contact pads, elements 128 and 71 may also be a relatively wide buslines connected directly by chip-to-chip connector 40. FIG. 16 shows the top view of contact pads 128 on chip 50.
  • 56.FIG. 17 illustrates how to connect chip 15 to chip wiring or busline 130 in chip 51 with a much tighter periodicity. The contact pads are connected by using a stud 131 between the busline 130 and a pad layer 132. The pad layers 132 are then staggered as shown in FIG. 18, which permits the connection of the contact pads 71 of chip 15 with the busline 130 of chip 51. FIG. 18 shows the top view of this arrangement. With such an arrangement, it would be possible, for example, to connect array drivers in one technology in a first chip to array lines in a memory chip, thus providing higher performance of the system.
  • 57.FIGS. 19 and 20 illustrate the use of chip-to-chip connectors of mixed heights to accommodate different chip sizes and structures. As seen in FIG. 19, the active region of chip 50 is connected via chip-to-chip connectors 40 to the active region of chip 15. The external connections and electrical connections such as power, ground and signal (not shown) are made from the back surface of chip 15, and are conducted to the active regions of chip 50 and 15 via through-chip conductors 30. The thermal path is shown from the back surface of chip 15 through thermal through-chip conductors 20A, chip-to-chip connectors 40A, thermal adhesive 149, to external heat sink 56. Heat sink 56 provides cooling of chip 15 through the tall chip-to-chip connectors 40A, and direct cooling to chip 50. The taller connectors 40A have more ability to flex than the smaller connectors, and thus can support greater mechanical stress.
  • 58.FIG. 20 illustrates a power supply decoupling capacitor configuration with mixed tall and short chip-to- chip connectors 40A and 40 on chip 15. Chip 15 may receive external electrical connections (not shown) through the back surface that includes power supply, ground and signal. The electrical characteristics are then conducted to the active regions of chip 50 and chip 15 through through-chip conductors 30 and chip-to-chip connectors 40A. Decoupling capacitors 136 are mounted on the front surface of chip 15 and on the back surface of chip 50. Chip-to-chip connectors 40A have sufficient height to accommodate the decoupling capacitors 136. The connections in FIGS. 19 and 20 are point-to-point connections, wherein only one connection is made to each of the chips in the stack. Point-to-point connections allow for minimized loading at each of the stack connections and thus faster performance of the system. More connections, though, and consequently, more space is required for point-to-point connections.
  • 59.FIGS. 21 and 22 illustrate the ability to stack similar chips while providing high speed chip-to-chip connections through the silicon. As seen in FIG. 21, a stack of chips 142, 144, 146 and 148 is mounted directly on device 140, such as a logic chip, carry-card, microprocessor, controller, etc. , to minimize latency between the device and chips and to maximize bandwidth. Each chip is mounted with the active area facing down, and is configured for its position in the stack. The first four connections connect the device 140 to each chip, wherein the first connection connects to a receiver on chip 148 and requires three chip-to-chip connectors to reach it, the second connection connects to chip 146, the third connection to chip 144 and the fourth connection to a low capacitance receiver on chip 142. Each of the next four connections shown connect to all four chips. These last four connections allow for parallel input/output connections. FIG. 22 shows device 140 having through-chip conductors , such that the stack may be mounted with two chips on each side of the processor for even higher performance.
  • 60. In the chip stacks of FIGS. 21 and 22, or similar stack structures, the knowledge of whether these interconnections through multiple chips behave as lumped capacitances and inductance, or as transmission lines is important. That is, high speed transmission lines usually require termination to avoid reflection while lumped capacitive and inductive elements do not. The electrical behavior is determined by the round trip delay time in relation to the rise time (or fall time) of the waveform. If the rise (or fall) time trt of the waveform is greater than two times the round trip transmission line delay td (trt>2td), lumped capacitance and inductance assumptions may be used (as described in “Cross Talk and Reflections in High Speed Digital Systems”, Feller et al, RCA, Proceedings-Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1965).
  • 61. For chips 250 μm thick, the round trip delay through one segment is less than 2 picoseconds (ps). For a stack of chips 4 high, the round trip delay is less than 8 ps, and for a stack of chips as high as 20, the round trip delay is less than 40 ps. In the case of a 20 chip stack, the inductance for a 20 chip stack, with 20 segments, is less than ½nhy, and the capacitance for 20 segments is less than 4 pf. Thus, the combined inductance and capacitance of a stack of 20 chips may be treated as lumped elements up to a frequency of 4 Giga Hertz (GHz). Above 4 GHz, the segments would behave as transmission lines requiring terminations. Furthermore, connections inside silicon are capable of very high frequency characteristics without cross talk and without radiation.
  • 62. Thus, the through-chip conductors and connectors according to an embodiment of the present invention provides high system packing densities, as well as low inductance, high performance inter-chip and intra-chip communication and heat dissipation.
  • 63. While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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What is claimed is:
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a substrate having a back surface and active devices on a front surface;
at least one first through-chip conductor passing a first electrical/physical characteristic from said front surface to said back surface of the substrate; and
at least one chip connector electrically connected to said active devices of said substrate and to a conductor on a different level of packaging.
2. The device of
claim 1
, further comprising at least one second through-chip conductor passing a second electrical/physical characteristic to said back surface of the substrate.
3. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said chip connector is coupled to said first through-chip conductor at said back surface of said substrate.
4. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said different level of packaging comprises a circuit board.
5. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said different level of packaging comprises a heat sink.
6. The device of
claim 5
, wherein said heat sink is in thermal contact to said back surface of said substrate.
7. The device of
claim 1
, wherein the different level of packaging comprises decoupling capacitors.
8. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said at least one chip connector comprises a plurality of chip connectors of mixed heights.
9. The device of
claim 2
, wherein said first electrical/physical characteristics are electrical and said second electrical/physical characteristics are thermal.
10. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said first through-chip conductor comprises an inner conductor surrounded by an insulator.
11. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said first through-chip conductor comprises an outer conductor and an inner conductor separated by an insulator.
12. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said conductor is copper.
13. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said chip connector comprises a conductor of plated copper.
14. The device of
claim 1
, wherein said chip connector comprises an outer conductor of plated copper and at least one inner conductor of plated copper separated by an insulator.
15. A method of electrically and thermally connecting a semiconductor device having a front surface with active devices and a back surface to a different level of packaging, comprising the steps of:
a) providing at least one first through-chip conductor; and
b) electrically passing a first electrical/physical characteristic from said active devices of said semiconductor device to said different level of packaging with said first through-chip conductor.
16. The method of
claim 15
, further comprising the steps of:
c) providing at least one second through-chip conductor; and
d) passing thermal characteristics of said semiconductor device to said back surface of said semiconductor device with said second through-chip conductor.
17. The method of
claim 15
, further comprising the steps of:
coupling said different level of packaging to said back surface of said semiconductor device.
18. The method of
claim 17
, wherein said different level of packaging is a circuit board.
19. The method of
claim 15
, wherein step b) further comprises the steps of:
b1) providing at least one chip connector; and
b2) electrically connecting said active devices of said semiconductor device to said different level of packaging with said chip connector.
20. The method of
claim 19
, wherein step b1) further comprises the steps of:
1) depositing a first sacrificial layer on said semiconductor device;
2) etching a first via hole in said first sacrificial layer;
3) plating a first conductive material in said first via hole;
4) depositing a second sacrificial layer on said first sacrificial layer;
5) etching a second via hole in said second sacrificial layer;
6) plating a second conductive material in said second via hole; and
7) removing said first and second sacrificial layer.
21. The method of
claim 20
, wherein said first conductive material is copper.
22. A method of fabricating a chip connector for a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of:
a) depositing a first sacrificial layer on said semiconductor device;
b) etching a first via hole in said first sacrificial layer;
c) plating a first conductive material in said first via hole;
d) depositing a second sacrificial layer on said first sacrificial layer;
e) etching a second via hole in said second sacrificial layer;
f) plating a second conductive material in said second via hole; and
g) removing said first and second sacrificial layer.
23. The method of
claim 22
, wherein said first conductive material is copper.
24. A semiconductor package comprising:
an active semiconductor device having a back surface and active devices on a front surface;
a first set of through-chip conductors passing from the front surface of the device to the back surface of the device;
chip connectors connected to the through-chip conductors on the back surface of the device; and
a different level of packaging in contact with the back surface of the device.
25. The package of
claim 24
, wherein said different level of packaging comprises a heat sink in thermal contact with the back surface of the device.
26. The package of
claim 24
, wherein said different level of packaging comprises a circuit board.
27. The package of
claim 24
, wherein said first through-chip conductor comprises an inner conductor surrounded by an insulator.
28. The package of
claim 24
, wherein said first through-chip conductor comprises an outer conductor and an inner conductor separated by an insulator.
29. The package of
claim 24
, wherein said chip connector comprises a conductor of plated copper.
30. The package of
claim 24
, wherein said chip connector comprises an outer conductor of plated copper and at least one inner conductor of plated copper separated by an insulator.
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