1 Making Microchips at Home - Cooking with Jeri Part1
Jeri Ellsworth's home chip-making project is cited as proof that homebrew fabrication is possible, and as one of the simpler documented routes, while remaining difficult.
Topic
integrated circuits
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2 Viewing an active electronic circuit with a scanning electron microscope
Ben Krasnow uses a scanning electron microscope to make voltages on a live chip's surface visible, linked when people ask whether electric fields can be seen.
3 "Z1" - Homemade Silicon ICs / Computer Chips
Sam Zeloof's homemade silicon chips are shared as proof that integrated circuits can be made outside a factory, given space, time and old specialist equipment.
4 How a CPU is made
Covers how a CPU is made from design through fabrication to packaging; offered as an accessible overview when people ask how modern chips are produced.
5 Fairchild Briefing on Integrated Circuits
A vintage Fairchild film valued as an educational look at how integrated circuits and their transistors are manufactured.
6 Circuits in stone: A video history of Japan's electronic industry (Part 2)
Second part of a four-part history of Japan's electronics industry, suggested as background viewing and cited for early chip makers' struggles with contamination.
7 Hackaday Supercon - Ken Shirriff : Studying Silicon: Reverse Engineering Integrated Circuits
Ken Shirriff's Hackaday talk is suggested as a starting point for learning how chips can be reverse engineered by studying the silicon die.
8 Reverse engineering a simple CMOS chip
Shared to give a rough idea of how chips are opened up and examined, usually in replies about reverse engineering silicon.
