Even Engineers Doodle -- on the ICs they design

[Tom.G]

But you better have a microscope to see them!

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1242...n-doodles-engineers-microchip?ft=nprml&f=1002

 

[berkeman]

Yeah, whenever we used to de-cap another manufacturer's IC to figure out what went wrong, we would always look around the IC surface to see if they'd left any logos or similar. Every once in a while you might find the project team member names or some interesting symbol...

 

[nsaspook]

If you ever see similar doodles inside some random prototype ASIC, you now know where they came from.

 

[Flyboy]

Ok, that’s pretty cool. Kudos to the people behind them.

 

[davenn]

Yeah, whenever we used to de-cap another manufacturer's IC to figure out what went wrong, we would always look around the IC surface to see if they'd left any logos or similar. Every once in a while you might find the project team member names or some interesting symbol...

for sure
gosh, it's been years since i last did that
i have been reinspired tp decap a few more chips