IC reverse engineering and other adventures

There have been several advancements including work on finishing the automation of the biological microscope and automation of the inverted ...

As you can hopefully see from some of the previous posts, people employ many techniques to remove the irritating resin casing. I've see...

The original camera setup involved zip-tying t-slot aluminum to the microscope neck and positioning the camera based on a series of adjustme...

One of the goals for an effective setup is to automate taking pictures of the dies. Current technique is to manually move the chip around w...

In my last post, I discussed some of my early experience with sanding. After sanding, I tried some simple chemical etching. Unfortunately,...

The earliest way to view chips was to "cheat" and use old chips that were more readily accessible by soldering their physical caps...

Some easy IC chips to work with are the old gold capped ceramic chips. Something like this: This particular chip is labeled MD513 76R / 740...