Hackaday Supercon - Ken Shirriff : Studying Silicon: Reverse Engineering Integrated Circuits

From the outside, integrated circuits are mysterious black boxes. Here’s how to open up some famous analog and digital chips including 8008 microprocessor, 555 timer, the first FPGA chip, Intel’s first RAM, the 76477 sound effects chip, and a counterfeit RAM chip.
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[@samykamkar]

Such awesome info!

[@hoofie2002]

I had a try at this a few weeks ago on a die picture of a simple TTL chip. Once you can guess the structures it gets easier but you really need some specific electronics knowledge and I did some silicon design and layout in Uni.
Great presentation from Ken

[@ObligedTester]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@panopolis8051]

why is the volume so low on these videos? makes it hard to follow

[@craymour1897]

Ken Shirriff , the alternative for Nicolas Cage

[@jimstand]

Hackaday Supercon and the presenters are using corded microphones? WTH?

If you hack a xlr cord the microphone stops working.