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Counting bits in hardware: reverse engineering the silicon in the ARM1 processor

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How can you count bits in hardware? In this article, I reverse-engineer the circuit used by the ARM1 processor to count the number of set ...
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Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor

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Almost every smartphone uses a processor based on the ARM1 chip created in 1985. The Visual ARM1 simulator shows what happens inside the...
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Creating high resolution integrated circuit die photos with Hugin or ICE

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Have you ever wanted to take a bunch of photos of an integrated circuit die and combine them into a high-res image? The stitching software...
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Macbook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter

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Have you ever wondered what's inside your Macbook's charger? There's a lot more circuitry crammed into the compact power adap...
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