“…Passive devices known as interposers are widely used in the BGA packaging sector to fan out the contacts of an integrated circuit (IC) to a larger BGA pitch, or to convert between different pitch devices [1]. In the context of vertical integration of IC's for system on package (SoP) and system in package (SiP) applications [2], interposer devices find new uses to minimize stress on the IC, provide higher speed signal paths than possible on chip [3], allow vertical integration of IC's with different pinouts or pitch, support embedded passive components, implement tests prior to vertical integration, handle and monitor stacked DRAM's, etc. Finally, in the context of intelligent trackers, a new application of interposers would be to provide physical separation between two coupled measurement layers [4].…”