A semiconductor chip includes a front surface and a back surface, a source pad, a drain pad and a gate pad on the front surface; a die pad under the semiconductor chip and bonded to the semiconductor chip; a source lead, electrically connected to the die pad; a drain lead and a gate lead, disposed on a periphery of the die pad; and a sealing resin. A plurality of vias for external connection are formed to connect to the source pad. A first subset of the plurality of vias for external connection is disposed along a first side of the source pad, and a second subset of the plurality of vias for external connection is disposed along a second side of the source pad, wherein the first and second sides are arranged adjacent to each other to form a first edge of the source pad.

Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of fabricating the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a substrate of a semiconductor die; a memory cell portion located over a first portion of the substrate; a conductive pad portion located over a second portion of the substrate and outside the memory cell portion; and a sensor circuit including a portion located over the second portion of the substrate and under the conductive pad portion. The conductive pad portion includes conductive pads. Each of the conductive pads is part of a respective electrical path coupled to a conductive contact of a base outside the substrate.

A semiconductor device includes a cooling base board and an insulated circuit substrate. On a front surface of an insulated board on the insulated circuit substrate, a high potential circuit pattern on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, an intermediate potential circuit pattern on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, a low potential circuit pattern, and a control circuit pattern are disposed so as to straddle a center line of the cooling base board. The intermediate potential circuit pattern includes a second chip mounting region, an output wiring connection region and an interconnect wiring region that form a U-shaped portion in which the high potential circuit pattern having a semiconductor chip thereon is disposed. The control circuit pattern is disposed so as to straddle the center line and faces the opening of the U-shaped portion.

In an optical receiver circuit which suppresses an unnecessary increase in impedance and occurrences of resonance and radiation noise and which produces preferable high-frequency transmission characteristics, a PD submount mounted with a PD chip and a chip capacitor and a TIA carrier mounted with a TIA chip are electrically connected to each other by a bonding wire. The chip includes an anode electrode pad and a cathode electrode pad, anode electrode-side ground pads are formed at positions that sandwich the pad, and cathode electrode-side ground pads are formed at positions that sandwich the pad. A wire electrically connects the pad and a signal pad for input of the chip to each other, a wire electrically connects the pad and the capacitor to each other, and a wire electrically connects the pads and the pads to each other.

Isolators for signals and/or powers transmitted between two circuits configured to operate at different voltage domains are provided. The isolators may have working voltages, for example, higher than 500 Vrms, higher than 1000 Vrms, or between 333 Vrms and 1800 Vrms. The isolators may have a fully symmetrical configuration. The isolators may include a primary winding coupled to a driver and a secondary winding coupled to a receiver. The primary and secondary windings may be laterally coupled to and galvanically isolated from each other. The primary and secondary windings may include concentric traces. The primary and secondary windings may be fabricated using a single metallization layer on a substrate.

A light emitting device includes: a base having a first stepped portion and a second stepped portion; a light emitting element; an electronic member configured to be irradiated by light emitted from the light emitting element; a first wiring region located on the first stepped portion; a second wiring region located on the second stepped portion; wires connected to the light emitting element and the electronic member. The wires includes a first and second wires. The first wire has a first end that is connected to the first wiring region, and a second end. The second wire has a first end that is connected to the second wiring region, and a second end. A position of the second end of the first wire relative to the bottom face is lower than a position of the second end of the second wire relative to the bottom face.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes an opening extending through a thickness of the substrate, a frame that includes an integrated circuit (IC) die pad in the opening and a plurality of arms extending outwardly from the IC die pad, an IC mounted on the IC die pad, a plurality of bonding elements electrically coupling the substrate with the IC without the frame being an intermediary coupling element, and an encapsulant surrounding the IC, the plurality of bonding elements, and the plurality of arms. The substrate has a first major surface and a second major surface. Each arm is devoid of a contact pad. Each arm has a distal end coupled to the first major surface of the substrate, and each arm has a proximal end disposed over the first major surface of the substrate.

A rectangular power module with a body having two short ends defining a length and two long sides defining a width having three parallel circuit paths crossing the short width distance from side to side using side positioned gate terminals and planar top positioned top power terminal positioned between MOSFETS in the circuit for even thermal positioning and reduced current path, inductance, and resistance and increased power density.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) package including a first die at least partially embedded in a first encapsulation layer and a second die at least partially embedded in a second encapsulation layer. The first die may have a first plurality of die-level interconnect structures disposed at a first side of the first encapsulation layer. The IC package may also include a plurality of electrical routing features at least partially embedded in the first encapsulation layer and configured to route electrical signals between a first and second side of the first encapsulation layer. The second side may be disposed opposite to the first side. The second die may have a second plurality of die-level interconnect structures that may be electrically coupled with at least a subset of the plurality of electrical routing features by bonding wires.

A sensor package structure is provided and includes a substrate, a sensor chip, a ring-shaped supporting layer, and a light-permeable sheet. The sensor chip is disposed on and electrically coupled to the substrate. The ring-shaped supporting layer is disposed on the sensor chip and surrounds a sensing region of the sensor chip. The light-permeable sheet has a ring-shaped notch recessed in a peripheral edge of an inner surface of the light-permeable sheet, and a depth of the ring-shaped notch with respect to the inner surface is at least 10 tim. The light-permeable sheet is disposed on the ring-shaped supporting layer through the ring-shaped notch, and the inner surface is not in contact with the ring-shaped supporting layer, so that the inner surface of the light-permeable sheet, an inner side of the ring-shaped supporting layer, and the top surface of the sensor chip jointly define an enclosed space.