Posted on 09/16/2022 12:43:00 AM PDT by Jonty30
I'm just curious about the process from the point of CAD to where they have computer chips ready to sell.
Thanks in advance if somebody can explain it for us non-techies.
An eight inch platter is put into a chamber that deposits appropriate material layers onto it. Then UV light is directed at it in at various locations to create the proper connections by getting rid of some of the material. It is then tested for functionality. It is then sent to a diver to cut out individual chips. It is the individual chip which is then packaged and sold to you
All of this is done in a class 10 clean room
“Have Verilog and Synopsys been outdated?”
Don’t know. Crazy, late 90’s for me. I worked on a Pentium II clone, FPU w/MMX team.
We had a Synopsis system. I remember the day we booted DOS.
I’ve made plastic chips from computers. Especially my Windows Vista computer.
I live near the Intel plant in Rio Rancho, NM. They've been on a construction kick for a little under a year to expand the facility here. Huge cranes and construction crews running dawn to dusk.
From the design stage, you need more than a basic knowledge of electronics.
Then you need a PDK database for the process you are planning on using.
Cadence Virtuoso is what most companies use.
Older process are fairly reasonable and you can usually piggyback on a test chip to see if your design works.
Its very much like PCB layout however the design rules are much more complex.
Contact me if you need more information than this.
The biggest advancement since semiconductors began.
We were nearly done with advancement until this came out.
Each costs 200M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv40Viz-KTc
Considering nobody on earth can explain how a pencil is made, I would assume a chip is much less likely...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE
Seppuku trade policy by the Uniparty.
You go on the Internet and buy them from China - that’s why we no longer need to educate people in the US.
This is so important! Microchip still has foundries in the US, and plans to build a few more.
I gave high school students lessons on digital logic gates. Eventually they were exposed to the necessary logic to implement an AVR ATMEGA328 uP instruction set. A few of them were thrilled and went on to study CS or digital electronics in college. The majority just didn’t care.
The Motorola 68000 was highly superior in every respect. Motorola management flubbed the meeting with IBM.
It seem you have the gist of it.
Wow I want that guy in my Tribe when society completes its breakdown.
Intel was already making tons of money. I've seen the building process for a Fab and it is organized chaos. You can only build a Fabrication Factory at a limited speed no matter how much money you throw at it. You get people bumping into each other and preventing others work from getting done.
Intel was already doing everything it could. It has chips months on backorder. The money tossed at them is basically pork made to look noble.
You’ll want to read up on Photolithography which is basically the method used to draw/etch the circuits onto whatever substrate.
They already have that. It’s called Molecular Beam Epitaxy.
> It’s called Molecular Beam Epitaxy.
I was thinking macro not micro.
Making computer chips since college....strike any key.
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