Officially Lucky ❡ a blog by Clint Ecker

Us wacky electrical and computer engineers love to try and sneak little pieces of art into micron-scale electronics! ho ho! Well actually some of them are cool. For example, check this out:

Electrical engineering students Matt Billenstein and Vipul Patel produced the Cincinnati Bearcat logo for a class project in VLSI (very large scale integration) design while undergraduates at the University. The chip functions as a 16-bit x 16-bit pipelined serial multiplier and was fabricated in 1.2-micrometer CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology. With a clock speed of 30 MHz, the multiplier is capable of a throughput equal to roughly 1 million multiplies per second.

Cincinnati Bearcats in Silicon

Who knew that UC had an engineering program? Not me! :) Just kidding. There’s tons more cool supertiny artwork over at the Silicon Zoo