Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
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Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
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Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#2Fun fact: Solar cells and the LEDs are the same element.
If you wire up a solar cell like an LED, it glows dimly in infrared. QA uses this to diagnose dysfunctional wafers.
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#3Fun fact: Solar cells and the LEDs are the same element. If you wire up a solar cell like an LED, it glows dimly in infrared. QA uses this to diagnose dysfunctional wafers.
Steve Mould had a video[1] about this a couple of years ago where he shows a small solar panel lighting up.
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#4Fun fact: Solar cells and the LEDs are the same element. If you wire up a solar cell like an LED, it glows dimly in infrared. QA uses this to diagnose dysfunctional wafers.
Steve Mould had a video[1] about this a couple of years ago where he shows a small solar panel lighting up. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGKz2sUa0w
Is it possible to have a light / emw battery ?
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#5I used to be a professional computer geek on weekdays and professional photographer on weekends; and 20 years on, it still blows my mind the similarities between the materials and manufacturing of the CPU doing heavy work in my laptop and the sensor gathering pixels in my camera :O
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#6Fun fact: Solar cells and the LEDs are the same element. If you wire up a solar cell like an LED, it glows dimly in infrared. QA uses this to diagnose dysfunctional wafers.
That's fun and super interesting, going to read more on it.
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#7Fun fact: Solar cells and the LEDs are the same element. If you wire up a solar cell like an LED, it glows dimly in infrared. QA uses this to diagnose dysfunctional wafers.
Hey, Electroboom just covered this:
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#8I used to be a professional computer geek on weekdays and professional photographer on weekends; and 20 years on, it still blows my mind the similarities between the materials and manufacturing of the CPU doing heavy work in my laptop and the sensor gathering pixels in my camera :O
Transistors!
E.g. EPROM (memory type chip) is typically deleted by shining a uv light on the actual silicon die, through a uv transparent quartz window in the final packaged chip.
edit: fixed EEPROM -> EPROM
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#9I used to be a professional computer geek on weekdays and professional photographer on weekends; and 20 years on, it still blows my mind the similarities between the materials and manufacturing of the CPU doing heavy work in my laptop and the sensor gathering pixels in my camera :O
Transistors! E.g. EPROM (memory type chip) is typically deleted by shining a uv light on the actual silicon die, through a uv transparent quartz window in the final packaged chip. edit: fixed EEPROM -> EPROM
I read somewhere that some people used EPROMs and decaped Ram chips as digitizers for early computers.
Re: Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
#10I used to be a professional computer geek on weekdays and professional photographer on weekends; and 20 years on, it still blows my mind the similarities between the materials and manufacturing of the CPU doing heavy work in my laptop and the sensor gathering pixels in my camera :O
Transistors! E.g. EPROM (memory type chip) is typically deleted by shining a uv light on the actual silicon die, through a uv transparent quartz window in the final packaged chip. edit: fixed EEPROM -> EPROM
That's not an EEPROM. That's an EPROM. The first E in EEPROM is ELECTRONIC - i.e. you use a voltage (or a control word) to indicate that you would like to erase the device.
Also, EPROMs are extremely vintage. They were replaced by EEPROMs - the first of which came out in 1977. That's an... extremely vintage example.