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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Hey folks,
it´s time to summarize the chip art that I found in the year 2023. These are also known as “silicondoodles” and they represent scribbles, signatures, text, objects and creatures that mask designers and chips producers etch on silicon dies as sort of a “signature”. You can only see them using a high-resolution microscope, and you need to be lucky to find one. Similar to an Easter Egg hunt, I started in 2022 to search CPUs, RAM modules, processors, ASICs and other chips which contain #silicondoodles. While I discovered 20 different doodles in 2022, in 2023 there were more than 30!
My highlight of 2023 is the #playboy bunny which I found on a Siemens chip. Although the doodle was known and reported on the Silicon Zoo webpage (Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo), the challenge was to identify the right chip. What was known were the markings on the chip die itself (M879-A3) which often differ from the chip name found on the package. I was lucky enough to decap a Siemens ISDN chip which had the bunny with bent ear. Hence, I knew that the chip must be in the area of ISDN applications where the same Siemens designers must have been active. I then stumbled over a chip (PEB2080) with almost the right die markings (M879-A9) which was free of doodles, however, I knew now to look for the earlier revision 3 (A3) which was luckily also marked on the package (PEB2080-A3P). As a bonus to my success, it did not only contain the playboy bunny but also a smurf!
This video covers all silicondoodles that I discovered in 2023 as Extended Medley. Enjoy!
Chapters
00:12 It´s a #ConArtist! (HP 1FQ2)
00:25 It´s a #Flash! (HP 1FQ2)
00:39 It´s a #TasmanianDevil! (Analog Devices ADSP-2105)
00:58 It´s a #Hamburger! (Philips SAA7188)
01:28 It´s an #OwlFamily! (Philips SAA7188)
01:37 It´s a #LostDuckFamily! (Siemens 80C535)
01:59 It´s a #PowerMan! (Siemens PSB2120)
02:16 It´s a #TV! (Siemens SDA9188)
02:33 It´s #MadeInUSA! (AMD AM29C660)
02:45 It´s #Teletext! (Siemens SDA5243)
02:57 It´s a #Texas #Longhorn! (AMD DX4)
03:23 It´s a #Dolphin! (SymbiosLogic 53C416)
03:42 It´s a #Texas #Map! (Dallas DS1384)
03:51 It´s a #WeightLifter! (ITT MEA2600)
04:09 It´s a #Pig! (Nanya NT56V6610)
04:16 It´s a #Dragon! (Nanya NT5DS16M)
04:24 It´s a #Shark! (Analog Devices ADSP-21061)
04:39 It´s a #OneTVChip! (Philips TDA8362)
04:55 It´s a #Bunny! (Siemens PEB20901)
05:23 It´s a #Playboy! (Siemens PEB2080)
05:42 It´s a #Smurf! (Siemens PEB2080)
06:00 It´s an #Elephant! (ITT 4116)
06:05 It´s a #RadioTower! (Dallas DS2659)
06:20 It´s a #Zombie! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
06:40 It´s a #Cupule! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
06:50 It´s a #Zombiebullet! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
07:06 It´s an #Owl! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
07:23 It´s a #GOAT! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
07:34 It´s #Ganesha! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
07:48 It´s #YinYang! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
08:04 It´s a #FirTree! (Micronas VPC3211)
08:20 It´s #Calimero! (Infineon PMB5703)
08:40 It´s a #Drummer! (Infineon PMB5703)
08:58 It´s #Grisu! (Infineon PMB5703)
09:04 It´s the Florida States #Seminoles! (NEC VR12000)
09:37 It´s #GrouchoMarx! (NEC VR12000)
10:01 It´s #Anubis! (NEC VR12000)
10:19 It´s a #CaliforniaLicensePlate! (NEC VR12000)
10:41 It´s a #Guitarosaurus! (NEC VR12000)
10:52 It´s #SiliconGraphics! (NEC VR12000)
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Very nice! Thank you for this cool stuff ^^!
i liked the smurf and the calimero hahaha
I wish this would show a zoomed out view of the die and where its located and an explanation of what layer it is on. Also how big or small it is. That I think is the most interesting part.
I have not included a scale bar but in other videos I use it. The video has only two full die shots as it is tremendous work to stitch but thanks for the feedback! Have you watched the lastest microscope video? There you will see the scale on the Smurf for example.
@@cpu_duke Fair enough, I do understand. I have not seen that video but will consider checking it out when I get the time. I really appreciate the response and best of luck to you! I shared this video with some other geek friends. Pretty cool video you posted. Cheers
Very cool!! I had no idea these existed
Hashtags are annoying, but awesome vid otherwise
#Feedback 😅