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Project Artifact Silicon
Learn about the source, nature, and limits of silicon's physical properties and how future materials may address current technology limitations.
Project Multi-Core Manager
Visitors play the role of a type of "task manager" processing a flow of data using historical, current, and future chips.
Project Leap Ahead
The visitor learns the implication of Moore's law and plans a business based on future computing ability.
Project Why chips are hard to design
What does a chip do--send data over pathways and operate on that data--and why is it hard to make a good chip?
Project Immersive Room design
Visitor gets a sense of the scale of IC fabrication through a 'scaled' built environment
Project Laser zapping ON/OFF
Spinning wheel causes laser to flash ON/OFF and that speed is compared to chip processing ON/OFF.
Project The Big Switch Transistor
Visitors touch and interact with a model of the original transistor, to understand the basic measuring unit in chip manufacture.
Project Brain to Brain
Chip processing speed is compared to brain processing speed.
Project Speed of a processor (hand-wave comparison)
This project is designed to give the particpant measure of processor speed when compared to their own reaction time in secs.
Project Microchips in the world
This project will be based around "Google Earth" with many points on the planet hilighted because of their relationship to microchips.
Project Transistor Unit (visual ascii and binary)
The use of transistor as an on/off, binary 1/0 will be demonstrated as it has become the building block of I.C's in its application as a digital device.
Project Parts of a Chip (kiosk mounted)
This project will in one scenerio, show how entered data flows through the chip - From the moment the participant enters data (It could be simple as adding two numbers), the user/participant will also be able to select the area corresponding to the chip to get detailed explanation of the function of that part of the chip.
Project Explore the Chip (mounted on Exhibition Display Unit)
Large size interactive with buttons representing parts of the chip. Team submitted design by Matteo and Birgit.
Project Transistors as Switches
To illustrate the fact that transistors function mainly as switches in microchips.
Project Computers are made of Transistors
To show that an entire computer is made out of transistors.
Project Transistor=TRANSmitter+reSISTOR
To show the dual roles of a transistor in transmitting and resisting electric current.
Project In the blink of an eye
To show the amazing performance of modern microchips, what they could do in the short period of time of our eye blinking action.
Project CPU simulator
A CPU is made of units that carry out very simple mathematical operations. By cascading millions of these, a CPU drives the computing experiences we are familiar with, like playing games, watching movies and communicating over the Internet. This exhibit strives to connect the dots in this picture by showing the activity on a chip for tasks we do everyday. The visitors will experience how simple computing operations like skipping a song cause massive activity in the chip.
Project Electrons in Motion
To show how we can use the remarkable behavior of electrons in solids, like silicon, to create a very small, very fast switch (a digital transistor).
Project Electrons in motion - materials
Additional materials uploaded for http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/integrated-circuits/integrated-circuits-projects/electrons-in-motion
Project Explore the fascination - Claudia Rupp and Tobias Wilhelm
The visitors are the electricity which flows through the chip and the transistor unit.
Project The Macrochip
To represent average people an easy way to learn how a microchip works by using visual and kinesthetic learning. A giant microchip known as "The Macrochip" achieves this goal. Using today's electronics to compare to Microchip technology is involved. Plasma television and speakers will provide an example to show how, no matter how casual things are, microchip technology are in them. This exhibition shows a way to be environmentally friendly by having a solar pane on it.
Project Computers vs. Human Brain ... and the winner is?
Comparison of processing power and efficiency of artificial and organic systems. Part 1: Computer evolution. ENIAC to modern microchip computing. Part 2: Comparison to the human brain. ENIAC parameters, including dimensions, weight, speed compared to the human brain.
Project Are you faster than a processor?
"Speed of Processor" This exhibit could compare a human action with the speed of a chip. Allow the visitor to experience
Project On the Head of a Pin
Using block models, can you assemble these transistors-in-the-making in the correct order of fabrication? Once in the correct order, they will create a connection and ‘power’ the computer.
Project Less is More
Step through time to see how the application of Moore's Law has made transistors, and the products that contain them, so much smaller and yet faster.
Project Make-a-Wafer
Test your knowledge of silicon as you try to create your own wafer.
Project Transistors: the key part in all electronics!
Creating a hand-on model of a transistor to explain it's function and importance.
Project Puzzle Movement - Circuits
This project has a picture of a silicon chip imposed on a simple puzzle that you must compete against the computer to solve.
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