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Does anyone have a single, basic book recommendation that would describe chip fab all in one place? Also, it seems to me he or people like him should try to ma
by forkandwait 9y ago
Does anyone have a single, basic book recommendation that would describe chip fab all in one place?
Also, it seems to me he or people like him should try to make microcontrollers rather than "full" computer chips. I would buy something to drive blinky lights for $5.00 that ran 1/5 as fast as an Atmel chip to support a free chipmaking movement, but I can't see doing something for a general purpose computer chip (with the same ratios at least).
- fuzzfactor 9y agoIf you take a look at the circuitry on some recent cheap multi-mode blinky lights you can find a likely analog IC fabricated right there on the surface of the small PCB and covered with a drop of epoxy, along with a few discrete components and battery holder. I found a more advanced digital application where the memory modules on our automatic titrator's exchangeable burets are fabricated on about a 5x20mm ceramic substrate and covered with the epoxy droplet with only the gold-plated connector pads showing. Only a limited byte capacity is needed, enough to contain the serial number and a line of variable text to store a couple user variables. Small feature size and physical chips off of a multi-IC silicon wafer are not exactly essential for such a simple application.