January 28, 2007

A look inside various integrated circuits

If you have a burnt out IC (integrated circuit) why not crack the thing open to what makes it tick before tossing it in the trash. Nick Chernyy from uBlog has provided some details on how to do it. Just so happens that I cracked open a power regulator myself not too long ago… “Integrated circuits are very hard to design properly, so many people put substantial effort into doing