Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970

Re:Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register mem... by kragen on Sunday December 21, 2014 @11:21PM (#8781973)

Getting a modern die photo requires using an electron microscope or a scanning-probe microscope, because feature sizes are down to about a tenth the wavelength of visible light. That alone makes the photos look pretty different.

Modern chips also have quite a few more layers (process steps); e.g. IBM's old 0.13μm process supports 8 metal layers, not counting other steps like epitaxial growth and oxides: https://www.mosis.com/vendors/view/ibm/8rf-dm

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Re:Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register mem... by kbradero on Monday December 22, 2014 @01:07AM (#8782207)

is there any good book to study about this ?

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Re:Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register mem... by kragen on Monday December 22, 2014 @06:57PM (#8786013)

I don't know much about it myself, so I'm not the right person to ask. Much of the little I do know came from reading http://designinganalogchips.com/, a book by Hans Camenzind, one of the all-time great sandbenders.

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Re:Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register mem... by kens on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:00AM (#8786976)

I give a thumbs up for Designing Analog Chips - I found it really helpful and interesting, and it's free online at the above link.

And if you're interested in 1970s-era digital chips, I recommend Mead and Conway's "Introduction to VLSI systems" at http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/VLSITex...

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