US 11,735,506 B2
Packages with multiple exposed pads
Hung-Yu Chou, Taipei (TW); Bo-Hsun Pan, Taoyuan (TW); Yuh-Harng Chien, New Taipei (TW); Fu-Hua Yu, New Taipei (TW); Steven Alfred Kummerl, Carrollton, TX (US); Jie Chen, Plano, TX (US); and Rajen M. Murugan, Dallas, TX (US)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/206,640.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/671,775, filed on May 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0355652 A1, Nov. 21, 2019
Int. Cl. H01L 23/495 (2006.01); H01L 23/31 (2006.01); H01L 21/56 (2006.01); H01L 21/48 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 23/49568 (2013.01) [H01L 21/4821 (2013.01); H01L 21/565 (2013.01); H01L 23/3107 (2013.01); H01L 23/49503 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a lead frame including:
a first row of leads;
a first pad coupled to the first row of leads, the first pad being noncoplanar with the first row of leads;
a second row of leads parallel to the first row of leads; and
a second pad coupled to the second row of leads, the first and second pads separated by a gap, each of the first and second pads having a substantially uniform thickness; and
a device coupled to the first and second pads,
wherein the first and second pads are exposed to an exterior of the apparatus.