I remember from a while ago a circuit board manufacturer was sending out boards that people were finding little glyphs and art work on. Does anyone know where or when this happened? And perhaps where photos could be found of these little works of art slipped into a circuit board…
Am I even calling it the right thing? Maybe all motherboards and circuit boards come with little tags from the manufacturer. I wish I could find a picture…
I don’t know about circuit boards, but chip designers used to “build” pictures with different layers of the process.
Not so sure about circuit boards, but it’s been somewhat of a tradition to fit artistic expressions into silicon chips.
Often the circuit board foundries will add thier own logo to an internal layer with “windows” on the outer layer so that it is visible by X-ray. One reason for this is that their customer may be using several board houses to build the same product, and they don’t want to get blamed for somebody elses poor quality.
In hundreds of boards I’ve been involved with, I’ve never encountered anything that wasn’t required “yesterday if not sooner.” and the folks doing board layout typically had a fair backlog. Taking the time for such “foolishness” would be frowned upon. Also it is rare to have much excess board real-estate…sometimes in a re-design it happens though…the old board with the new highly integrated chip set still has to fit where the old board did.
Exactly - that’s what I was talking about! Thanks a bunch…I don’t know why but those are pretty cool to me. Maybe because they are so small…