A Train, or a Transistor?

[us3rnotfound]

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Which is it?

 

[TuxDave]

Train?

 

[invidia]

NPN transistor

 

[PottedMeat]

How much do companies tolerate little designs and drawings in their chips?

After all who's gonna see it besides the microelectronics/lithography people and maybe one of those reverse engineering firms.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
How much do companies tolerate little designs and drawings in their chips?

After all who's gonna see it besides the microelectronics/lithography people and maybe one of those reverse engineering firms.

Or maybe the silicon debug team when they find out a drawing violated one of the design rules and ruined the chip. But on a more "i heard that someone said that" type of story, most of the time no one cares but I did hear of a story where someone wrote some explicitives on the chip and got fired for it.

 

[RapidSnail]

There is a train...

...on a transistor






















Will Edward de Vere be exalted as the true author of Shakespearian works in place of William of Stratford? More importantly, will he take off?

 

[SSSnail]

Let me get this out of the way: it's not .9999999999..... bulk transistor on a treadmill and spider Patriots.

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
How much do companies tolerate little designs and drawings in their chips?

After all who's gonna see it besides the microelectronics/lithography people and maybe one of those reverse engineering firms.

Or maybe the silicon debug team when they find out a drawing violated one of the design rules and ruined the chip. But on a more "i heard that someone said that" type of story, most of the time no one cares but I did hear of a story where someone wrote some explicitives on the chip and got fired for it.

Heh there was some story floating around a while back where a motorola engineer put "INTEL SUCKS" or something like that on a chip and got fired. Or was it the other way around, can't remember. But I think it turned out just to be some BS story.

 

[TwiceOver]

I'd have to say it's a book.

 

[Rubycon]

AlGaInP visible laser diode with catastrophic optical damage (COD) on its exit facet.

 

[Auric]

Molecular Expressions: Silicon Zoo

Enjoy.