Silicon Zoo - Silicon Creatures Gallery

[mixos]

Ever wonder what's lurking within the dark corners, nooks and crannies of your computer? Is some gremlin responsible for all those crashes---you know, the ones that happen when you are trying to save that critical document you've been working on so diligently for the past three hours? We wondered too, so we took a look to see what we could find. And guess what? When we put the computer chips under the microscope we found some very interesting creatures hiding there.


Hewlett-Packard superscalar PA-RISC 7100LC Hummingbird microprocessor chip

Their search has led to a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) featuring many of the interesting silicon creatures and other doodling scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip masks. The tiny creatures are far too small to be seen with the naked eye, so we have provided high-magnification photomicrographs to share these mysterious wonders with our visitors. Engineers designing modern computer chips have a very rich sense of humor as you will discover when you visit our Silicon Creatures Gallery that we keep corralled in the Silicon Zoo. We hope you enjoy your adventure!

Source: http://www.microscope.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

Also downlod this great screensaver: http://www.microscope.fsu.edu/software/screensavers/zoosaver.html

More interesting microscope images here: http://www.microscope.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html

[Yevgenip]

Neat!

[Codyhtml]

WOW they have other awsome stuff there too