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An interposer is an electrical interface routing between one socket or connection and another. The purpose of an interposer is to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute a connection to a different connection.[1]
An interposer can be made of either silicon or organic (printed circuit board-like) material.[2][3]
Interposer comes from the Latin word interpōnere, meaning "to put between".[4] They are often used in BGA packages, multi-chip modules and high-bandwidth memory.[5]
A common example of an interposer is an
NoC technology, which combines small dies ("chiplets"), fabricated at the FDSOI 28 nm node, on a 65 nm CMOS interposer.[12]
Another example of an interposer is the adapter used to plug a
SAS backplane with redundant ports. While SAS drives have two ports that can be used to connect to redundant paths or storage controllers, SATA drives only have a single port. Directly, they can only connect to a single controller or path. SATA drives can be connected to nearly all SAS backplanes without adapters, but using an interposer with a port-switching logic allows providing path redundancy.[13]
See also
- Die preparation
- Integrated circuit
- Semiconductor fabrication
References
- ^ a b Package Substrates/Interposers.
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- ^ Silicon interposers: building blocks for 3D-ICs (Archived 2018-01-30 at the Wayback Machine) / ElectroIQ, 2011.
- ^ 2.5D Interposers; Organics vs. Silicon vs. Glass (Archived 2015-10-10 at the Wayback Machine) / Rao R. Tummala, ChipScaleReview, Volume 13, Number 4, July–August 2013, pages 18–19.
- ISBN 978-0-7918-4461-8.
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- ^ "Leti Unveils New 3D Network-on-Chip". EE Times. Archived from the original on 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
- ^ Willis Whittington (2007). "Desktop, Nearline & Enterprise Disk Drives" (PDF). Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). p. 17. Retrieved 2014-09-22.