Timeline for What shapes can IC dies be?
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| Nov 20, 2023 at 15:45 | comment | added | Voltage Spike♦ | There are probably other things to consider like yield when cutting. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 12:10 | vote | accept | Jacob Krall | ||
| Nov 20, 2023 at 0:36 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @KarlKnechtel: I think you're reading to much or too little into the phrasing of "can they be cut into?". They don't mean just math, they mean "... can they practically / usefully be cut into, considering any factors that are relevant for an IC die?" e.g. that triangles have sharp corners, and more of the area farther away other parts of the chip than shapes with more faces. From the question title, and the fact it's posted here, answerers were easily able to infer that meaning and post useful and interesting answers, e.g. that straight cuts across the wafer are highly preferable. | |
| S Nov 19, 2023 at 23:48 | history | suggested | Karl Knechtel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
"dice" is only the plural when "die" means the thing one uses for gambling or board games. For an IC die, the plural is "dies".
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 20:31 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | I feel an explanation is necessary for my off-topic flag. It should be obvious that in principle the material used could be cut into any shape, given the proper tools. Since the question explictly mentions "tesselations", however, it seems that the intent is "what shapes can be used to tesselate a sheet of material?" (i.e., cut it into identical pieces without material left over except at the edges). That, in turn, is just an application of a pure math problem. It has nothing to do with electronics, and no understanding of electronics is necessary to answer. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 20:28 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 14:19 | history | edited | Jacob Krall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 10:49 | answer | added | Chester Gillon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 7:18 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 19, 2023 at 3:00 | answer | added | Hearth | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 0:26 | answer | added | user1850479 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 0:14 | history | edited | Jacob Krall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
context for why I asked
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 0:02 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 18, 2023 at 23:22 | comment | added | The Photon | Conceivably you could cut them into rhombus shapes or triangles. What problem are you trying to solve here? | |
| Nov 18, 2023 at 23:16 | history | asked | Jacob Krall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |