ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS

ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS
ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS
ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS

ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS
This artwork is a mixed media display celebrating the silicon wafer. The display describes the process of making chips, from sand to completed computing devices. It has a large background image of the chips on the completed silicon wafer. On the back is a narrative describing the display, the chip making process, and the artists signature. The artwork contains elements used in the making of silicon wafers, as well as, three 100mm silicon wafers (a unpolished, a polished, and a finished etched wafer). The completed silicon wafer, contains CBM 5719 Amiga Gary I/O chips.

The Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG) produced this 4 wafer at its fabrication plant in Norristown, Pennsylvania in 1986. It is fully completed and ready to be scored and diced into about 400 individual die, or "chips". There are also five standard test dies on the wafer (one in the center and the other four in an "X" pattern). The wafer is made using NMOS silicon gate technology.

The background image of this artwork is of the Gary chips on the wafer. Of special note is the EPROM. Because of the need to expose the chip to ultraviolet light to erase its memory, the quartz window allows the chip inside to be seen. Also of interest are a completed CBM 5719 Gary chip, a S3 Graphics Processor, a Cyrix MII-300GP microprocessor and a Hitachi 6800 piggyback microprocessor (HD68P01). The artwork is framed in an 11"x14" black shadow box frame, with glass.

All framing materials are acid free. A narrative about the artwork that includes the artists signature is placed on the back of the artwork. Limited by availability of wafers and chips. Want to see more ChipScapes?

Computer chips start out as ordinary sand, which is silicon dioxide. However, the silicon must be made very, very pure. The first step is to melt the sand, in a furnace that reaches about 3200. F, and mix with carbon. This first purification process creates 99% pure Silicon, a common output is Silicon Carbide.

The Silicon Carbide is processed in a trichlorosilane distillation method to create 99.9999% pure silicon called polycrystalline silicon. The polysilicon is broken up into chunks.

These chunks are melted in a crucible at about 2500. A silicon crystal seed is dipped in molten silicon and slowly drawn out to create a cylinder of silicon. These silicon cylinders are some of the purest crystals on the planet. Once the silicon cylinder is grown to the desired diameter, it is sawed into wafers. These wafers are polished to achieve a very flat mirror surface. Transistors, and other micro-electronic parts, are built on the polished wafer in layers in a process called etching. The wafer is then sawed into its individual chips. Each chip is mounted in an electronic package that serves to protect it and connect it to the outside world.

It has been said that computer chips are the greatest value added product in the world. We essentially take a pile of sand and change it into thousands of dollars worth of computer chips. These artworks are the creation of. Are photographs taken of computer chips, boards, and other computer artifacts.

They are sort of chip landscapes, or. Most often a macro-lens or microscope is used with special lightning to achieve these unique artworks. Intel, IBM, Fairchild, DEC, Signetics, Intersil, AMD, Zilog, Motorola, MOS, NEC, Texas Instruments, are some of the great chip making companies.

Chips like the Intel 4004, MOS 6502, Zilog Z80, AMD 2901, IBM PowerPC and others have changed the way people work and play. Are dedicated to preserving and sharing these computing and communication technologies that changed the world. Artworks are fine collectible artworks. Come is a variety of shapes sizes and colors.

Clusters of my artwork make for stunning displays! Would make a great gift for the nerd, geek, engineer, programmer, IT executive, or just that technology savvy person in your life. For more information about ChipScapes. Please check out my ChipScapes. For more information about chip collecting as a hobby.

The item "ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS" is in sale since Friday, September 7, 2018. This item is in the category "Art\Mixed Media Art & Collage Art".

The seller is "chipscapes" and is located in Winter Park, Florida. This item can be shipped worldwide.


ChipScapes Making Computer Chips Silicon Wafer, Gary, Amiga, 5719, CBM, MOS


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