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Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die
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Intel introduced the 8087 chip in 1980 to improve floating-point performance on the 8086 and 8088 processors, and it was used with the ori...
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Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip
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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...
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Reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color
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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...
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Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor
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You're probably familiar with modern processors made by Advanced Micro Devices. But AMD's processors go back to 1975, when AMD intr...
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