What was that thing I just clicked?
That's a wafer. That is, each of those little squares (dice) will be
cut apart with a diamond saw and put into a package as a separate
chip. And what would you see if you could look even closer? If each
die were an inverter, it might look like the picture below. After the
CMOS layout for the inverter, I put the transistor level description
of the inverter (with sample input and output), and after that, I put
the logic diagram for the inverter. (For a little bit more info,
click on each version of the inverter.
No, you aren't expected to know this yet, but it is kind of interesting, no?
larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu
