Hi all, I wanted to decorate my room with some 6502-themed artwork, and I found this print from an art website called Fine Art America:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mos ... emery.html

I was curious about which part of the 6502 die was this taken from.
After a quick search on Visual 6502 I can say it's in the bottom right corner, near the DBx pins, rotated 90 degrees and with some color effects applied.

I wonder what are these four "things" at the center. Is it a single power transistor? Four transistors combined together?
What's its role? Maybe to drive the output data pin?
And what about the surrounding electronics?

Thanks for any hints
Enrico

My guess is that those are the 4 medium sized transistors driving the two gates of the big output driver transistors.

Confirmed: it's around the I/O pad driver for bit three of the databus. But not in our usual orientation:
http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/expert. ... &zoom=10.7

From the visual6502 images here:

Amazing, thank you!



The schematic you attached seems part of a bigger image, where could I find it?

It's from the Balazs' schematic

For more work on 6502 schematics, this thread might be of interest: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6053

Hi Enrico,
some time ago I vectorized the 8501 (which is a 6502 + some additional logic) and made a print on brushed alloy:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/38890011

Maybe you'll find that one interesting.

I also vectorized the REU chip: 8726R1

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