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Decapping

Out of curiosity, has anyone de-capped
any of Apple's custom chips and
taken a photo die?

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Re: Decapping

Not that I'm aware of, I periodically look around for stuff like that and hadn't seen any.

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Re: Decapping

It's not an Apple Chip but Stynx has done this on an accelerator chip

http://www.applefritter.com/?q=content/nude-zipchip

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This site looks interesting.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~lantra9jp1_nbn/gurudumps/

I will have a look if there is any Apple II stuff.
He is done other 8-bit computers and Mac.

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Robert Baruch (@babaggeboole) has a //e MMU that he has been analyzing.

https://twitter.com/babbageboole/status/870110235750408192

Unfortunately, I have not seen that he has published his results.

Getting the ZipChip gate array/asic to someone like him, Ken Shirriff,
or perhaps someone from the visual6502.org project would be very useful.

Given that it seems to be a standard cell array, it should not be too
difficult to sort out with clean and focused images.

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Re: Decapping

I have found this website in which they
have decapped a few of Apple's custom chips.
One is for the graphics tablet and
the 2 others. 1 for IWM and the other
for the SWIM chip on the Apple ][ 3.5 controller card.

This site just doesn't decapp Apple chips but others
also, so have a look.

www.siliconpr0n.org/map/

Click on the Apple folder to access the above information.

Regards

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This seems like it's an important project if there's ever going to be a hope of reproducing these chips in the future.

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It's not an Apple Chip but Stynx has done this on an accelerator chip

http://www.applefritter.com/?q=content/nude-zipchip

Did it again Smile

ZIPCHIP 8000 ASIC photographed by Robert Baruch
55000x56000 (>300mb)
13800x14000 (60mb)

ZIPCHIP 8000 (cache on the bottom, 32mhz quartz removed)

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Here are the images that I took for the //e 344-0010 MMU chip. The svgz file there is for Inkscape.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzoHDcfUnncTMTVOMTZTTjFIRDQ

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Re: Decapping

Robert,
a big thank you for your time spent taking and providing these hires photo's.
How much time does it take you to setup and take these photos.

Regards
Geoff B

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Robert, those are amazing images! Thanks for sharing!

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