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Congratulations on joining the Silicon Archive. If you're looking to start adding wiki pages on your own devices, here's the place to start.
TLDR:
Here's a few quick rules which are very important to follow.
Once you start adding chip pages, you'll want to make a page about yourself, with the same name as your user account. As a minimum this page should contain the following content:
{{tag>collection}} All images licensed as $LICENSE_HERE unless otherwise stated. {{topic>collection_yourusernamehere}}
It's important to specify what license your images are covered by so people know if/how they can reuse them. We recommend CC-BY or CC-BY-NC, but the choice is is of course up to you. Although you are free to tag single images as being licensed differently it's important to specify a catch-all license to avoid confusion.
You can, of course, add extra information about yourself if you'd like. Typically this would be a summary of your interests/experience level, what lab facilities you have access to, a link to your personal website, etc.
If you are adding a chip from a company we don't have in our database yet, great! You'll want to make a new page for the company so people can find it. It should be called “vendor:nameofcompany” and contain the following content:
{{tag>vendor}} Brief description of company here {{topic>vendor_nameofcompany}}
Additional information which might be useful here is a description of what kind of products the company makes, dates of major events (founded, went out of business, bought/was bought by another company).
High resolution chip maps must be added manually by mcmaster. Generally, low resolution images (say below 5 MB) should just be added to the pages directly and not map'd.
To be written soon…
Use the template
TODO: mcmaster uses a script to template most pr0nmap pages. Add a link to it
TLDR:
Suggested low resolution image workflow:
Please upload photos in JPEG format at quality 90 and use PNG for diagrams. When possible, all images should be captured in a lossless form such as TIFF and converted to JPEG for web purposes. Lossless compression reduces artifacts and makes the images more friendly for machine vision, so the original files should be used for analysis when possible.
Images above say 5 MB (say 16 megapixels) should be downsampled before posting in order to prevent the thumbnailer from running out of memory. High-resolution stitches are welcome but we currently do not have an automated interface for uploading map images, please contact an admin if you have one to contribute.
TODO: Come up with naming convention
azonenberg's new standard is: foo_01_type_20kV_10kx_9mm.jpg
“type” may be “se” for secondary electron or “bse” for backscatter.
Magnification should be abbreviated if a multiple of 1000, otherwise written out in full (ex: 3900x, 4kx).
Working distance and accelerating voltage should also be specified to aid in interpretation of the image. Typically for high-resolution images one will use the lowest probe current and smallest aperture that give a good signal-to-noise ratio, so this information is often omitted from the filename.
Images should be named “chipname_number_type_objective.jpg” where “type” is the image type and “objective” is an abbreviation for the objective used.
If you've calibrated your microscope against a standard of some sort, please add an overlay with the objective name and a scale bar to your images. (Contact azonenberg if you'd like the GIMP files for our standard overlay, which you can modify for your setup.)