The present invention stacks chip scale-packaged integrated circuits
(CSPs) into modules that conserve PWB or other board surface area. In
another aspect, the invention provides a lower capacitance memory
expansion addressing system and method and preferably with the CSP
stacked modules provided herein. In a preferred embodiment in accordance
with the invention, a form standard is disposed between the flex
circuitry and the IC package over which a portion of the flex circuitry
is laid. The form standard provides a physical form that allows many of
the varying package sizes found in the broad family of CSP packages to be
used to advantage while employing a standard connective flex circuitry
design. In a preferred embodiment, the form standard will be devised of
heat transference material such as copper to improve thermal performance.
In a preferred embodiment, a high speed switching system selects a data
line associated with each level of a stacked module to reduce the loading
effect upon data signals in memory access. This favorably changes the
impedance characteristics exhibited by a DIMM board populated with
stacked modules. In a preferred embodiment, FET multiplexers for example,
under logic control select particular data lines associated with
particular levels of stacked modules populated upon a DIMM for connection
to a controlling chip set in a memory expansion system.