27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
7:04 a.m.
Paul wrote:
"Flip Chip" as a DEC trademark simply
designates the PC board with
stuff on them that implements some function and can be plugged into a
backplane.
That's what it ended up meaning, and most of the modules indeed were made up of
discrete wire-lead components and DIP's on
a plug-in card.
But DEC's original intention was a much closer bonding
of a hybrid module to a PCB sans wires. See my thread
in a.f.c. on this topic in 1998 :-).
Tim.