6502 Images

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Images of the 6502

In the summer of 2009, the Visual6502.org project shot and assembled high resolution photographs of a MOS 6502 revision D. The surface of the chip was photographed, then the metal and polysilicon layers were stripped off to reveal the conductive substrate diffusion areas. The substrate was photographed, and the substrate image was aligned to the surface image. These two aligned images were then used to create the vector polygons that form the Visual6502 chip simulation.

Below are the aligned surface and substrate images, 4677 x 5097 pixels in size. The originals are twice the size in each direction, but those full size images were not used in the reconstruction. These were shot on a Nikon Optiphot 200 with 10x objective, and roughly 15x additional magnification going to the camera.