Quilt packaging

Copper interconnects prepared for joining via quilt packaging

Quilt Packaging (QP) is an integrated circuit packaging and chip-to-chip interconnect technology that incorporates conductive “nodules” fabricated on the sides of chips. These nodule structures function as extremely wide bandwidth, low-loss electrical I/O, with sub-micron mechanical chip-to-chip alignment.^[1] When utilized for electrical I/O, QP nodules have demonstrated around 2 dB of insertion loss across the entire bandwidth from 50 MHz to 220 GHz.^[2]

References

1. ↑ G.H. Bernstein, Q. Liu, M. Yan, Z. Sun, W. Porod, G. Snider and P. Fay, "Quilt Packaging: High Density, High-Speed Interchip Communications," IEEE Trans. on Advanced Packaging, 30(4), 731-740, 2007
2. ↑ P. Fay, D. Kopp, T. Lu, D. Neal, G.H. Bernstein, J.M. Kulick, "Ultrawide Bandwidth Chip-to-Chip Interconnects for III-V MMICS, " IEEE Microwaves and Wireless Components Letters, Vol. PP, Issue 99, November 2013.