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-{{tag>collection_az vendor_myricom year_2001 type_interface type_interface/pci type_network type_network/myrinet}}
-Myricom PCI DMA ASIC from a 2gbps Myrinet NIC found by John McMaster in the MIT tech dump.
-====== Board ======
-From Amazon listing but the chip is labeled "PCIDMA 1.3" and looks exactly like the one we decapped.
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-====== Die shots ======
-Die label. Quick focus stack of two images.
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_07_bf_neo40x_stack_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-Overview. Device is a 3-metal process but has classical 2-metal design (standard cells with 7 horizontal routing tracks between them on M1, then vertical routing on M2). M3 is used for long-haul power routing and what appears to be a low-skew clock distribution grid.
-Huge amounts of wasted space (multiple blank areas with no routing or logic, each several hundred microns square). The die could probably have been made quite a bit smaller if anyone bothered to try... maybe it was faster this way?
-Original measurements overestimated the feature size, it now looks to be around 350nm technology.
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_03_bf_neo5x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_04_bf_neo5x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-Close up of random cell area.
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_bf_neo40x_fused.jpg?600|}}
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_01_bf_neo40x_cropped.jpg?600|}}
-Large data bus with clock grid over it (even though there's nothing for it to connect to)
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_05_bf_neo40x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-SRAM block, looks like some kind of packet buffer.
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_08_bf_neo40x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-====== Art ======
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_01_bf_neo40x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_02_bf_neo40x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_03_bf_neo20x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_04_bf_neo10x_annotated.jpg?600|}}
-{{:azonenberg:myricom:pcidma_05_bf_neo50x_annotated.jpg?600|}}