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I always loved the easter eggs and art that some chips have included on the circuits, most of which has never been seen and will never be seen by anybody but th
by molticrystal 8y ago
I always loved the easter eggs and art that some chips have included on the circuits, most of which has never been seen and will never be seen by anybody but the designers.
Here are some examples:
http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/chipfun/graff.htm http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/chipfun/graff.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_art
My favorite has always been Wally/Waldo from Where's Wally.
- akoster 8y agoGreat links! Reminds of this [0] instance in the wild of using chip art to send a message to those attempting to decap and reverse engineer a design. [0] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42255/was-there-cyrillic-text-visible-on-intel-386-chips-after-decapping https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42255/was-there...
- escherplex 8y agoWhich reminds me of a story from a retired Bell Labs, Murray Hill engineer who related how they would add useless circuits to microprocessors to see if these sections were duplicated or deleted by the old Soviet military engineers. They were duplicated.