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Showing posts with label reverse-engineering. Show all posts

Showing posts with label reverse-engineering. Show all posts

Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip

I saw an ad for a tiny chip 1 that provides 5 volts 2 of isolated power: You feed 5 volts in one side, and get 5 volts out the other si...

Reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color

The Nintendo Game Boy Color is a handheld game console that was released in 1998. It uses an audio amplifier chip to drive the internal s...

Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor

You're probably familiar with modern processors made by Advanced Micro Devices. But AMD's processors go back to 1975, when AMD intr...

A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained

In the Apollo Moon missions, the Saturn V rocket was guided by an advanced onboard computer system built by IBM. This system was built fro...

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