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Tagging Chips: A Monthly Art Mural From The Nanometer World

September 2006: The Japan-American Connection

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It's difficult to say which camera company Analog Devices originally designed their AD9927 CCD signal processor for, but the Japanese and American flags that the Chipworks team discovered on it would certainly narrow the field a little. Their forensic engineers would not comment on precisely which camera they extracted the chip from, but the speed (40 Msample/s) and resolution (14 bit) indicate the processor targets high-end, high-resolution products. In any case, this month's chip art is an interesting side note to the turbulent, but mutually beneficial relationship that's existed between our two countries for most of the past half-century.

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.