1. An assembly provided with a component and with a substrate (7), said component comprising a first connecting structure (6) and said substrate comprising a second connecting structure (8), and with an intermediate layer arranged between the component and the substrate, wherein the first connecting structure (6) of the component comprises aluminum.
2. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the component is a chip with an integrated circuit which comprises an upper metal layer.
3. An assembly as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the first connecting structure (6) of the component is directly connected to the upper metal layer of the integrated circuit.
4. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the intermediate layer (10) comprises an ACF (Anisotropic Conductive Film) material.
5. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the intermediate layer (10) comprises a polymeric material.
6. An assembly as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the substrate (7) is chosen from the group of glass and foil.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A system for receiving variable rate packets of data symbols comprising;
a traffic demodulator having an input and having an output;
an overflow demodulator having an input and having an output; and
a combiner having a first input coupled to said traffic demodulator output and having a second input coupled to said overflow demodulator output and having an output for producing estimates of ones of said variable rate packets received by said system which include in excess of a predefined number of data symbols.
2. In a system in which users communicate information over traffic channels, an apparatus for transmitting variable rate packets of data symbols over at least one of said traffic channels, said apparatus comprising:
channel packetizer means for receiving said variable rate packets and for dividing each of said variable rate packets which include more than a threshold number of said data symbols into a traffic packet and at least one overflow packet;
transmission means for transmitting ones of said variable rate packets which include less than said threshold number of data symbols over a first of said traffic channels, and for transmitting each said traffic packet on said first of said traffic channels and each said at least one overflow packet on at least one overflow channel, said transmission means including modulator means for modulating each said traffic packet using a first modulation sequence associated with said first traffic channel; and
wherein said first modulation sequence is orthogonal to other modulation sequences associated with other of said traffic channels.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said transmission means includes modulator means for modulating each said traffic packet using a traffic pseudorandom noise sequence and for modulating each said at least one overflow packet using an overflow pseudorandom noise sequence.
4. In a system in which users communicate information over traffic channels, an apparatus for transmitting variable rate packets of data symbols over at least one of said traffic channels, said apparatus comprising:
a channel packetizer configured to receive said variable rate packets and to divide each of said variable rate packets which include more than a threshold number of said data symbols into a traffic packet and at least one overflow packet;
a transmitter configured to ones of said variable rate packets which include less than said threshold number of data symbols over a first of said traffic channels, and for transmitting each said traffic packet on said first of said traffic channels and each said at least one overflow packet on at least one overflow channel, said transmitter further comprising a modulator configured to modulate each said traffic packet using a first modulation sequence associated with said first traffic channel; and
wherein said first modulation sequence is orthogonal to other modulation sequences associated with other of said traffic channels.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said modulator is configured to modulate each said traffic packet using a traffic pseudorandom noise sequence and to modulate each said at least one overflow packet using an overflow pseudorandom noise sequence.