Drawings on pieces of silicon

Before going to sleep, I came across a news story about the manifestation of the saints' faces. This time on chips.

Yes, everyone is free to see what he wants. It is doubtful that the chip designers deliberately tried to achieve this. If this is so, then with the artistic talent of the hard workers from Samsung, I seriously strained.

The first time about the possibility of such a trick, I learned from the virtual character Kiwi Bird who made his nest in the editorial office Computers. Then there were a few more random sources in the form of links to file storage.

Therefore, we will organize our own gallery of miniatures in silicon. Since these images are damn hard to find at home, we will ask for help from the pros . These are guys from the laboratory of optics at the University of Florida. After all, grants are not always spent on basic research. Sometimes, these photos flow away from the developers themselves (for example, in a personal blog). As they say, only for friends and in the big secret :-)

The first canvas we have is a dual-port controller Intel 8207. The illustration as it deciphers the purpose of the chip - a shepherd (controller) with a dual-port ram (dual-port RAM).

Do not lag behind users of products of the blue giant and poppy users. In the Motorola / IBM PowerPC 750 (G3) microprocessor. It turned out to be engraved medieval sword. The code name for the G3 chips is “Arthur”, so the pun becomes clear.

Sometimes on the chip draw and more modern characters. For example, Mickey Mouse. He settled on the ancient timer chip Mostek 5017. They were used in clocks and timers in the distant 1970.

Everyone knows the bike about the cause of problems in the "GREAT OLD MACHINES" Yes, the cause of failures were bugs. In Harvard, Mark I was built in 1941. Logs were already then, and they were real paper magazines, not a dry name, like now.

Engineer Grace Murray Hopper and her assistants were looking for the cause of the Mark I. crash. It was found, and it was not a “buggy” windows. In an unequal fight against a mechanical relay, a bug was killed = (. The reason was recorded in a log file. It was then that the term debug was officially born. If you think that all beetles have already been tormented, you are deeply mistaken. Here is one of the representatives of this tribe.

Quietly sitting in the auxiliary CPU company Hewlett-Packard

Well, and play with toys, we love now. The immortal pacman or space invaders steal time from many.

But hello from Europe. Siemens company

That's all for now. It would be possible to even more distribute photos by hiding them under a habrakat, but I think that those who are interested in it will be able to walk on the links mentioned below;)

Links on this topic:

• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/ - the site of the Laboratory of Optics at the University of Florida. More than 50 photos of such masterpieces
• http://www.computerra.ru/offline/2002/438/17169/ - article on a similar topic in Terra.