Amiga 500 - Gary Print
Written by Robo   
Wednesday, 06 May 2009 22:55
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Gary

Gary is a simple chip that handles some smaller I/O tasks.

Gary

Although it's housed in the same 48-pin DIP as Denise and Paula, the actual chip is a lot smaller. There are just a few hundred components on the entire chip.

Gary

It also has alignment markers and test circuits.

Gary

Like the other custom chips, Gary is made with only one layer of metal. If two wires have to cross each other, then one has to be made from polysilicon (the darker wires in this picture). However, poly has a much higher resistivity than metal, so metal is always used wherever possible. That's why the three L-shaped lines in the centre of this picture are made from metal, rather than the whole wire being made out of poly.

Gary

For some reason there's an unused bondpad at the top of the IC.