Silicon — Colin Yap

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Silicon. The processor above, turned into an actual chip layout — and rendered here in 3D so you can spin it around.

RVBL-2 chip layout 11 MB · loads in your browser

What you're looking at

This is the processor after every logic gate has been turned into physical shapes — metal, silicon and the wiring between them — on a chip about a millimetre across. It's the file a factory would need to actually manufacture it.

The dense carpet is 274,009 tiny building blocks: adders, memory bits, switches. The wide tracks running over the top are the wires connecting them.

The layers

met5 … met1wiring and power

via4 … viavertical links between wires

li1 · mconlocal connections

poly · licontransistor gates

diff · nwellthe silicon itself

Turn layers off in the viewer's panel to peel the chip apart — hiding the wiring reveals the rows of building blocks underneath.

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Colin Yap Ren Feng · Selangor, Malaysia · 2026 · github · linkedin