A package base substrate includes a base layer; a plurality of lower surface connection pads disposed on a lower surface of the base layer; a plurality of lower surface wiring patterns disposed on a lower surface of the base layer and respectively connected to a set of lower surface connection pads of the plurality of lower surface connection pads; and a lower surface solder resist layer covering a portion of each of the plurality of lower surface connection pads and the plurality of lower surface wiring patterns on a lower surface of the base layer, wherein each of at least some of the lower surface connection pads of the set of lower surface connection pads has a teardrop shape in a plan view, and includes a ball land portion having a planar circular shape, including a terminal contact portion exposed without being covered by the lower surface solder resist layer, and an edge portion surrounding the terminal contact portion and covered by the lower surface solder resist layer; and a connection reinforcement portion between the ball land portion and the lower surface wiring pattern, including an extension line portion having a width that is the same as a line width of the lower surface wiring pattern and extending from the ball land portion to the lower surface wiring pattern, and a corner reinforcement portion filling a corner between the ball land portion and the extension line portion, and wherein an extension length of the extension line portion has a value greater than a radius of the terminal contact portion.

A semiconductor module includes a main board and external terminals. A package substrate includes a core insulation layer, a conductive pattern disposed in the core insulation layer and electrically connected with the external terminals, an upper insulation pattern and a lower insulation pattern. At least one semiconductor chip is disposed on an upper surface of the package substrate and is electrically connected with the conductive pattern. A shielding plate is disposed on a molding member and lateral side surfaces of the package substrate and shields electromagnetic interference (EMI) emitted from the semiconductor chip. A shielding fence extends from an edge portion of a lower surface of the lower insulation pattern and directly contacts the upper surface of the main board. The shielding fence surrounds the external terminals and shields EMI emitted from the external terminals. A reinforcing member increases a strength of the shielding fence.

A discrete three-dimensional (3-D) processor comprises first and second dice. The first die comprises 3-D memory (3D-M) arrays, whereas the second die comprises logic circuits and at least an off-die peripheral-circuit component of the 3D-M array(s). Typical off-die peripheral-circuit component could be an address decoder, a sense amplifier, a programming circuit, a read-voltage generator, a write-voltage generator, a data buffer, or a portion thereof.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor chip, a resin, and a terminal. The substrate spreads along a first surface. The semiconductor chip is provided above the substrate in a first direction. The resin covers the semiconductor chip. The terminal is provided below the substrate in the first direction. The resin includes a first portion and a second portion. A height of the first portion in the first direction is higher than a height of the second portion in the first direction. An edge of the second portion in a second direction along the first surface is a part of an edge of the resin in the second direction.

A semiconductor package including a package substrate including first and second bonding pads, third bonding pads spaced apart from the first bonding pads, and fourth bonding pads spaced apart from the second bonding pads; a first chip stack including first chips stacked on the package substrate, each first chip including first signal pads and first power/ground pads alternately arranged; a second chip stack including second chips stacked on the first chip stack, each second chip including second signal pads and second power/ground pads alternately arranged; first lower wires that connect the first signal pads to the first bonding pads; second lower wires that connect the first power/ground pads to the second bonding pads; first upper wires that connect the second signal pads of the second chips to the third bonding pads; and second upper wires that connect the second power/ground pads of the second chips to the fourth bonding pads.

A semiconductor package includes a package substrate having a first side portion adjacent to a first edge, and a second side portion adjacent to a second edge opposite the first edge; a plurality of first substrate pads on the package substrate at the first side portion of the package substrate; a first chip on the package substrate; a second chip stacked on the first chip in a step-wise manner to result in a first exposure region exposing a portion of a surface of the first chip with respect to the second chip due to the step-wise stacking, the first exposure region being adjacent to a first edge of the first chip; a plurality of first bonding pads on a first portion of the first exposure region, the first portion of the first exposure region being adjacent to the first edge of the first chip; a plurality of second bonding pads on a second portion of the first exposure region, the second portion of the first exposure region further from the first edge of the first chip than the first portion of the first exposure region is to the first edge of the first chip, the plurality of second bonding pads being electrically insulated from any circuit components in the first chip; a plurality of third bonding pads on a surface of the second chip; and a plurality of bonding wires electrically connecting the third bonding pads to the first substrate pads via the second bonding pads.

Embodiments described herein provide techniques for testing a semiconductor package by using a diode to couple a test pad to a contact pad. In one scenario, a package comprises a die stack comprising one or more dies and a molding compound encapsulating the die stack. In this package, a substrate is over the molding compound. Also, a test pad and a contact pad are on a surface of the substrate. The contact pad is coupled to the die stack. A diode couples the test pad to the contact pad. In one example, the test pad is coupled to a P side of the diode's P-N junction and the contact pad is coupled to an N side of the diode's P-N junction. In operation, current can flow from the test pad through the contact pad (and the die stack), but current cannot flow from the contact pad through the test pad.

A semiconductor package includes: a base substrate; a semiconductor chip stack including a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked on the base substrate in a first direction and each having an upper surface on which a plurality of pads are disposed; and bonding wire structures electrically connecting the base substrate and the semiconductor chips. The semiconductor chip stack includes a lower semiconductor chip stack and an upper semiconductor chip stack on the lower semiconductor chip stack. The plurality of semiconductor chips include a first semiconductor chip at an uppermost portion of the lower semiconductor chip stack and second semiconductor chips. The plurality of pads include first pads, aligned in a second direction, and second pads, spaced apart from the first pads in a third direction. The first pad on the first semiconductor chip, has an area larger than an area of each of the first pads on the second semiconductor chips.

An apparatus is provided that includes a die stack having a first die and a second die disposed above a substrate, and a capacitor die disposed in the die stack between the first die and the second die. The capacitor die includes a plurality of integrated circuit capacitors that are configured to be selectively coupled together to form a desired capacitor value coupled to at least one of the first die and the second die.

A discrete 3-D processor comprises first and second dice. The first die comprises three-dimensional memory (3D-M) arrays, whereas the second die comprises logic circuits and at least an off-die peripheral-circuit component of the 3D-M array(s). The first die does not comprise the off-die peripheral-circuit component. The first and second dice are communicatively coupled by a plurality of inter-die connections. The preferred discrete 3-D processor can be applied to mathematical computing, computer simulation, configurable gate array, pattern processing and neural network.