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Line 12: [[File:Lifeshmoo.jpg\|thumb\|right\|100 px]] The plot takes its name from the [[Shmoo]], a fictional species created by [[Al Capp]] in the cartoon [[Li'l Abner]]. These small, blob-like creatures have shapes similar to the "working" volumes that would be enclosed by shmoo plots drawn against three independent variables (such as voltage, temperature, and response speed). Semiconductor chips do not usually exhibit "shmoo" shape plots. ~~Originally~~Historically, testing of magnetic core memory arrays produced the "shmoo" shape and the term continued into the semiconductor era. == Examples ==

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