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Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

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Looking inside the Intel 8087, an early floating point chip, I noticed an interesting feature on the die: the substrate bias generation circ...
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Silicon die analysis: inside an op amp with interesting "butterfly" transistors

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Some integrated circuits have very interesting dies under a microscope, like the chip below with designs that look kind of like butterflies....
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Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip: digital logic implemented with I2L

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The 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip (1978) provided sound effects for Space Invaders 1 and many other video games . It was also a pop...
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