| Title: | Silicon Dominos |
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| Created: | 2003 | |
| Production: | Limited Edition Size of 200 Pieces | |
| Media: | 13"x16" print (full bleed), Archive Photopapers and Inks | |
| Framing: | I can do Suspension framing with 16"x20"x2" shadow box frames. If desired, I can provide the artwork unmounted, matted in 16"x20" black mat board, or mounted on 1/4" 13"x16" black foamcore. In all cases, the numbered and signed narrative is included. | |
| Narrative: | Click here for narrative info |
Full Image |
| I count
about nine “dominos” in this picture. Some are fours, some are twos,
although a few are not quite regulation. It would seem that this
microprocessor is playing its own games (I’m sure we all have felt that way
about our own computer at one time or another). While these perceived images
have nothing to do with the computer chip’s function, it is interesting to
find these allegories of the chip’s capabilities embedded in the chip’s
logic.
Of course these are not actually dominos; they are the connecting points in a very complex grid of interconnections in the arithmetic and logic section of a Motorola 6800 microprocessor. This interconnection scheme was much more organized and well thought out than those found in many of the other early microprocessors. When microprocessors were introduced, they were referred to as “random logic” devices. While looking at the microprocessor’s ivy-like traces wandering back and forth, you might believe you have discovered the origin of this naming. However tempting, the name “stems” from the fact that, even though the logic circuits in the microprocessor are fixed in silicon, the microprocessor’s logic is reconfigurable through programming and hence the randomness of the logic. As microprocessors have become more complex, the need for structured logic design has become a necessity for the designer’s productivity… and sanity. The 6800 was Motorola’s first microprocessor and was introduced in 1974. |
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Close-up Study 1 |
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Close-up Study 2 |
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