A process for making a multilayer circuit device having electrically isolated tightly spaced
electrical current carrying traces, comprising of providing an insulative substrate having a first side coated with a layer of conductive
metal intended to form a
ground plane; providing a plurality of seed layer traces of a predetermined width of approximately 25 microns or less separated from each other by a predetermined distance of approximately 25 microns or less on a second side of the insulative substrate, the narrowness of such separation being essentially limited only by characteristics of the
photoresist material to be deposited and developed therebetween and to withstand subsequent
processing; developing ribs or barriers of
photoresist forming vertical walls rising above the spaces separating the seed layer traces and defining valleys or channels thereover; depositing a desired thickness of conductive material over the seed layer traces and in the valleys or channels between the vertical walls; stripping away the
resist ribs or barriers to leave conductive traces to be variously used as ground lines,
signal lines and power lines; repeating the previous steps to develop a plurality of circuit boards; stacking the several circuit boards and joining them together with
layers of insulative material; identifying particular ones of the traces as
signal lines and other traces as power lines and / or ground lines; interconnecting at least some of the ground lines on one board to ground lines and / or ground planes on other boards by conductors extending through vias; interconnecting
signal lines to signal input and output terminals; and perhaps to
signal lines on other boards through vias; and interconnecting power lines to power input and output terminals, and perhaps to power lines on other boards through vias.