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Tagging Chips: A Monthly Art Mural From The Nanometer World

April 2006: The Poopster Rides Again: And This Time He's Got Company

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		If you bought an LCD monitor some time this last year there is a good chance that "The Poopster" and his mysterious kid brother are residing on your desktop. The ubiquitous Poopster has been sighted on many other chips made by this San José based company that specializes in PC-related semiconductors; but this may be the first time that we've witnessed family growth through chip art. Both of these silicon celebrities were discovered by Chipworks, etched into the corner of a very popular LCD controller series that's currently being used in many XGA and SXGA LCD monitors. We're not sure if either sibling has anything to do with the controller's remarkable ability to automatically deliver fast and accurate image alignment for both static and moving images, but they sure do look cute there.

Editor's Note: analogZONE believes that this embedded art is in the public domain in that the part was purchased legally and reverse-engineered by Chipworks in the course of their legal examination for their client(s). There is no intention by analogZONE to breach any copyrights asserted by the manufacturer of this part, the originator of the artwork, or the Chipworks client; the image is offered in strict anonymity, in the spirit of examining this unique element within a technical arena on its artistic, rather than engineering, merits.