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A look at the die of the 8086 processor
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The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month, 1 so I made some high-res die photos of the chip to celebrate. The ...
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Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter
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Floating-point numbers are very useful for scientific programming, but early microprocessors only supported integers directly. 1 Although...
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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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