Integrated Circuit and Transistor Package Types

Like transistors and computer chips, integrated circuits (ICs) are encased (hermetically sealed) by packages to keep safe the inner chip’s circuitry from tangible impairment and from any kind of defilement like moisture and dust.

Other than these, the IC package also aids with redistributing the Input & output of the chips circuitry to a user-friendly component size for use by its end user, along with allowing a structure more congenial to standardization, allowing a fervent heat course away from the chip, providing safeguard from the likelihood of errors because of alpha particles and other various radiations, and providing a composition that more conveniently allows electrical experiment and burn-in by the chip's maker.

The IC package may also be effective to connect more than one IC both directly to one another utilizing standard interconnection technologies like wire bonding, and indirectly utilizing interconnection pathways available on the package such as those used in hybrid IC packages and multi-chip modules (MCMs).

The packages also make it simpler to install the ICs in different types of equipment, as every package comprises leads which may be either plugged into corresponding sockets or plugged into mounting frames. Various types of materials are used to manufacture IC packages.