Object Details
- Summary
- This silicon integrated circuit was used in a special purpose supercomputer that searched for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The computer was connected to a radio receiver that scaned the electromagnetic spectrum rapidly. The chip processed the received signals to search for patterns that might stand out amidst the background noise.
- The NASA Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California, developed this chip in cooperation weith the SETI Institute.
- Gift of the SETI Institute and Silicon Engines, Inc.
- Data Source
- National Air and Space Museum
- Designer
- Stanford University
- Credit Line
- Gift of the SETI Institute and Silicon Engines, Inc.
- Materials
- Synthetic
- Copper Alloy
- Coating
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 3.8 × 0.5 × 3.8cm (1 1/2 × 3/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Electronics
