Silicon Landscapes

Bryce renders made from the physical layers of a SKY130 full adder.

Silicon Landscapes uses the geometry of a SKY130HD full adder as material for 3D images.

An artistic Bryce render of geometry derived from a SKY130HD full adder.

I extract the process layers from GDSII with gdsiistl, arrange them in Blender, and render them in Bryce. Layer offsets, materials, lighting, and deformation are artistic choices; these images are not physical cross-sections.

A second Bryce composition using the extracted full-adder layers.

Original image series