Making 100 transistors silicon integrated circuit chips in your garage
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#3Interesting. Curious what the yield is. And he doesn't need a cleanroom, or work with dangerous chemicals like HF?
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#4Interesting. Curious what the yield is. And he doesn't need a cleanroom, or work with dangerous chemicals like HF?
He mentions HF around 4:05 but by that time I have long lost my understanding of whats going on so this may not be what you mean.
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#5Making the masks in photoshop is a really neat trick. Reminds me of Bob Moore of Forth fame who said something like "once you have enough code to draw a square you are half way to a chip design package".
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#6Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176255
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#7Direct link to the blogpost: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
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#9Interesting. Curious what the yield is. And he doesn't need a cleanroom, or work with dangerous chemicals like HF?
He uses 1% HF, which is fairly managable.
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#10Interesting. Curious what the yield is. And he doesn't need a cleanroom, or work with dangerous chemicals like HF?
I don't think you need a cleanroom if your feature sizes are huge.