An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes an article having a substrate, a semiconductor die thereon, a routing carrier attached to the substrate, and a transmission pathway electrically connected to the semiconductor die and the substrate, wherein the transmission pathway runs through the routing carrier. In selected examples, the article is made by manufacturing a substrate, attaching a semiconductor die to the substrate, fabricating a routing carrier comprising a transmission pathway, and integrating the routing carrier into the substrate.

A wave communication system includes an integrated circuit and a multilayered substrate. The multilayered substrate is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. The multilayered substrate includes an antenna structure configured to transmit a circularly polarized wave in response to signals from the integrated circuit.

A method includes forming a first redistribution line, forming a polymer layer including a first portion encircling the first redistribution line and a second portion overlapping the first redistribution line, forming a pair of differential transmission lines over and contacting the polymer layer, and molding the pair of differential transmission lines in a molding compound. The molding compound includes a first portion encircling the pair of differential transmission lines, and a second portion overlapping the pair of differential transmission lines. An electrical connector is formed over and electrically coupling to the pair of differential transmission lines.

Embodiments include package substrates and a semiconductor package with such package substrates. A package substrate includes a first conductive layer in a first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer over the first magnetic layer, where the first and second magnetic layers include magnetic materials. The package substrate also includes a second conductive layer in the second magnetic layer. The second conductive layer includes a plurality of first traces fully surrounded by the first and second magnetic layers. The package substrate includes a third conductive layer over the second magnetic layer. The magnetic materials may include manganese Mn ferrite materials, Zn/Mn ferrite materials, or Ni/Zn ferrite materials. The magnetic materials include material properties with a low constant value, a magnetic tangent value, a frequency, a base filler chemistry, a filler shape, a filler orientation, a filler percentage, a loading fraction value, a permeability, an insertion loss, and a resin formulation.

A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device vertically positioned above the first semiconductor device, and a ground shielded transmission path. The ground shielded transmission path couples the first semiconductor device to the second semiconductor device. The ground shielded transmission path includes a first signal path extending longitudinally between a first end and a second end. The first signal path includes a conductive material. A first insulating layer is disposed over the signal path longitudinally between the first end and the second end. The first insulating layer includes an electrically insulating material. A ground shielding layer is disposed over the insulating material longitudinally between the first end and the second end of the signal path. The ground shielding layer includes a conductive material coupled to ground. The ground shielding layer drives radiation signals received therein to ground to prevent induced noise in the first signal path.

A functional panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a terminal are disclosed. The functional panel includes a base substrate, at least one differential signal line group on the base substrate, where each differential signal line group of the at least one differential signal line group includes two signal lines and at least one ground line group on the base substrate and on the same side of the base substrate as the at least one differential signal line group. Each ground line group of the at least one ground line group includes two ground lines. Each ground line group corresponds to each differential signal line group one-to-one, and orthographic projections of the two ground lines in each ground line group on the base substrate are on both sides of an orthographic projection of a corresponding differential signal line group on the base substrate, and two ground lines in the ground line group are connected to a same reference ground.

Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with dielectric coatings for printed circuit boards are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate, microstrip conductors located on a surface of the substrate, a solder mask covering the surface of the substrate and the microstrip conductors, and a dielectric coating located on the solder mask, the dielectric coating on an opposite side of the solder mask from the microstrip conductors, wherein a thickness of the dielectric coating is selected to cause a ratio of capacitive coupling to self capacitance to be approximately equal to a ratio of inductive coupling to self inductance for each microstrip conductor of the microstrip conductors, where the thickness may be determined based on a specific methodology including simulations. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes an article having a substrate, a semiconductor die thereon, a routing carrier attached to the substrate, and a transmission pathway electrically connected to the semiconductor die and the substrate, wherein the transmission pathway runs through the routing carrier. In selected examples, the article is made by manufacturing a substrate, attaching a semiconductor die to the substrate, fabricating a routing carrier comprising a transmission pathway, and integrating the routing carrier into the substrate.

A semiconductor optical device includes: a laser for emitting light; a modulator for modulating the light using an electroabsorption effect; a chip capacitor that is electrically connected in parallel to the laser; a chip inductor that is electrically connected in series to the chip capacitor, is electrically connected in series to the laser and the chip capacitor as a whole, and includes a first terminal and a second terminal; a solder or a conductive adhesive that directly bonds the first terminal of the chip inductor and the chip capacitor to each other; an electrical wiring group in which the laser, the modulator, the chip capacitor, and the chip inductor are electrically connected to each other; and a substrate on which the laser, the modulator, the chip capacitor, and the chip inductor are mounted.

A semiconductor device includes a first die having ports and a second die having ports. The semiconductor device includes a multi-layer package substrate. The multi-layer package substrate includes a first layer patterned to include pads for the ports of the first die and the second die and a second layer patterned to provide vias between the pads for the ports of the first die and pads for the ports of the second die and a third layer of the multi-layer package substrate. The third layer is patterned to provide traces that couple the vias coupled to ports of the first die to vias coupled to ports of the second die to couple the first die to the second die, the traces of the third layer having a width. The multi-layer package substrate also includes a fourth layer underlying the third layer and a ground plane underlying the fourth layer.