Reverse engineering old chips Ken Shirriff

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Built instruction-level simulator Decimal algorithms Trig: repeated rotates by .001 rad Log: powers of 0.99 More info: righto.com/sinclair
Intel shift-register memory (1970)
Page 1 and 2: Reverse engineering old chips Ken S
Page 3 and 4: Z80 (1976) Brq Wait Bak Wr Rd Irq M
Page 5 and 6: Instruction decoding PLA Instructio
Page 7 and 8: MOS transistors Drain Gate Source
Page 9 and 10: NAND gate +5 +5 Out 0 Out 1 1 Input
Page 11 and 12: NAND gate +5 Inputs Output Transist
Page 13 and 14: Gates get weird in the ALU +5 Out 4
Page 15 and 16: Sinclair Scientific Calculator (197
Page 17: Can see bits in the 320-word instru
Page 21 and 22: More info: righto.com/shift
Page 23 and 24: Collector Collector Base Base Emitt
Page 25 and 26: What bipolar transistors really loo
Page 27 and 28: PNP transistor
Page 29 and 30: Interactive chip viewer More info:
Page 31: 741 op amp
Page 34 and 35: More info: righto.com/741
Page 36 and 37: 7805 voltage regulator 7-25V in 5V
Page 38 and 39: A family of regulators from one chi
Page 40 and 41: Stitch photos together for high-res
Page 42 and 43: Motorola 6820 PIA chip
Page 44 and 45: Easy way: download die photos zepto
Page 46 and 47: Current project: 8008 analysis
Page 48 and 49: Reverse engineering old chips Ken S
Page 50 and 51: Z80 (1976) Brq Wait Bak Wr Rd Irq M
Page 52 and 53: Instruction decoding PLA Instructio
Page 54 and 55: MOS transistors Drain Gate Source T
Page 56 and 57: NAND gate +5 +5 1 Inputs 1 Out 0 0
Page 58 and 59: NAND gate +5 Inputs Output Transist
Page 60 and 61: Gates get weird in the ALU +5 Out 4
Page 62 and 63: Sinclair Scientific Calculator (197
Page 64 and 65: Can see bits in the 320-word instru
Page 66 and 67: Intel shift-register memory (1970)
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More info: righto.com/shift Here’
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Collector Collector Base Base Emitt
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What bipolar transistors really loo
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PNP transistor PNP transistors are
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Interactive chip viewer More info:
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741 op amp On the die you can see t
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Current mirror “Clone” a curren
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Unusual current mirror transistors
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Vin Gnd Vsense Vout Here’s my die
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Die photos: Metallurgical microscop
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Hugin takes some practice Tip: have
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How to get to the die? Photo: zepto
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Acid-free way: chips without epoxy
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Blog: righto.com ken.shirriff@gmail
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