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I worked at ASML San Diego for about a year as a bottom-rank software engineer (contractor) for 7nm. The scale and complexity of the thing was mind blowing. I w

I worked at ASML San Diego for about a year as a bottom-rank software engineer (contractor) for 7nm. The scale and complexity of the thing was mind blowing. I worked on the seed laser team, alongside the team that did the molten-tin gun. I think that domain is a rare case where the users (people like you) have a higher knowledge burden than the manufacturer. I can't imagine what actually goes on (in Taiwan and elsewhere) to actually use the machines and sign off the wafers as good-to-go.

lizknope 3y ago
That is really cool. I've been in the industry for over 25 years and I've never been to a fab. The number of jobs and specialization is so high that you need thousands of experts in their area but they have little knowledge about someone else's job. I know very little about all the equipment used to make chips. The people next to me that write Verilog know very little about DRC violations that I described. It takes a team of thousands of engineers to make this stuff.