I saw an article on it and was interested. They are put there by programmers who did it as a signiture, just something to show that they could. Does anyone have any sites that I can learn more about them?
Here is the link for the cyber zoo:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
More links regarding the subject are there also.
I work in the semiconducter bussiness. (thats micro-chips for the lay person) Its not uncommon for one of our engineers to put microscopic pictures on our chips. And usually what ever the picture is on the chip is what that particular device gets nick-named.
Some of the pictures we’ve had at my corp:
Snoopy
a man on skies
a bull taking a dump. (WTF?)
space shuttle.
And many more I can’t think of right now.
Wow !!! I have a buddy who collects Cyber-Zoo. He has:
Space Shuttle
Gorilla
Happy face
road runner
Coyote
fist
cigarette
pipe
beer bottle
sad face
Twin Towers (more recent)
frog
Bull Skull
I have seen quite a few. I will get his site and post it. I just can’t remeber any more than what I wrote. I just don’t understand how the ‘zoo’ is put on the chips???
Its done thruogh a process called photolithography[spelling?] Anyway, basically what they do is take a picture of the object then they keep shrinking and shrinking it until they get the size they want. Now I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, its a very complex process; I’ve oversimplified it here to say the least.
Thank you all much.
That is SO cool! I just spent the past 20 mins. or so looking at them…