Silicondoodle Medley 2023 - Short version

Hey folks,
This is the super fast version of my 2023 silicondoodle Medley. Silicondoodles 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 40!
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 Short Medley. Enjoy!
Chapters
00:08 It´s a #ConArtist! (HP 1FQ2)
00:09 It´s a #Flash! (HP 1FQ2)
00:10 It´s a #TasmanianDevil! (Analog Devices ADSP-2105)
00:11 It´s a #Hamburger! (Philips SAA7188)
00:12 It´s an #OwlFamily! (Philips SAA7188)
00:13 It´s a #LostDuckFamily! (Siemens 80C535)
00:14 It´s a #PowerMan! (Siemens PSB2120)
00:15 It´s a #TV! (Siemens SDA9188)
00:16 It´s #MadeInUSA! (AMD AM29C660)
00:17 It´s #Teletext! (Siemens SDA5243)
00:18 It´s a #Texas #Longhorn! (AMD DX4)
00:19 It´s a #Dolphin! (SymbiosLogic 53C416)
00:20 It´s a #Texas #Map! (Dallas DS1384)
00:21 It´s a #WeightLifter! (ITT MEA2600)
00:22 It´s a #Pig! (Nanya NT56V6610)
00:23 It´s a #Dragon! (Nanya NT5DS16M)
00:24 It´s a #Shark! (Analog Devices ADSP-21061)
00:25 It´s a #OneTVChip! (Philips TDA8362)
00:26 It´s a #Bunny! (Siemens PEB20901)
00:28 It´s a #Playboy! (Siemens PEB2080)
00:29 It´s a #Smurf! (Siemens PEB2080)
00:30 It´s an #Elephant! (ITT 4116)
00:31 It´s a #RadioTower! (Dallas DS2659)
00:32 It´s a #Zombie! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:33 It´s a #Cupule! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:34 It´s a #Zombiebullet! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:36 It´s an #Owl! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:37 It´s a #GOAT! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:38 It´s #Ganesha! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:39 It´s #YinYang! (Qualcomm Q1650C)
00:40 It´s a #FirTree! (Micronas VPC3211)
00:41 It´s #Calimero! (Infineon PMB5703)
00:42 It´s a #Drummer! (Infineon PMB5703)
00:43 It´s #Grisu! (Infineon PMB5703)
00:44 It´s the Florida States #Seminoles! (NEC VR12000)
00:45 It´s #GrouchoMarx! (NEC VR12000)
00:46 It´s #Anubis! (NEC VR12000)
00:47 It´s a #CaliforniaLicensePlate! (NEC VR12000)
00:48 It´s a #Guitarosaurus! (NEC VR12000)
00:49 It´s #SiliconGraphics! (NEC VR12000)
Music
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That was VERY cool. Thanks for posting. In the early '70's I worked for a company, General Instrument Corp. I was a "prober repairman." I was not an engineer, designer, not even a computer geek. I was a 17 year old that needed a job (and lied about my age and experience). If anyone remembers, a 'prober' was the rather complicated instrument that would test chips while they were still on the silicon wafer. I think what I had was a new sorta job. And I was pretty good at it. At the time I could fix most anything. 😊