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An integrated circuit (IC) is an electronic circuit built onto a single plate of a semiconductor material, normally silicon. Modern ICs may contain billions of transistors and they have played a major part in the miniaturization and performance improvements of modern electronic systems.

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How easy to indentify memory like ROM or EEPROM Flash Memory Areas of a Chip

Can anyone tell me would the memory circuit areas (ROM, EEPROM, SDRAM, Flash Memory) of the layers of a die belonging to a MCU and SoC IC's be relatively easy to identify compared to identify circuit …
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Chip Design Computer Generated Files for Fabrication Process

Could someone provide an overview of how the chip design files are used by the fabrication process? What I mean is once the design engineer(s) have completed the computer generated design blue print f …
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How can a manufacturer verify a circuit design? [closed]

Could anyone tell me what means (other than reversing) available to manufacturer of integrated circuits (latest Intel PC CPU's) that would allow them to verify that the actual design on die is exactl …
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Does a DDR RAM device exist which would allow RAM to be removed and preserved? [closed]

Hello I would like to know if there any device which could preserve content of RAM once removed from a host system and this special device could be connected perhaps by way of USB to another machine f …
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ARM Multi Cores on SoC's at Close Proximity

Could someone help me understand whether it is correct to assume that all ARM cores on a device such as a smart phone must be closely located on die for faster communications ? Otherwise would the dev …
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Does the Northbridge Chipset IC have a "core" of some definition [closed]

Does anyone have any intimate knowledge of the design layout of the logic "core" found in the Northbridge chipset used in computer motherboards (desktop and laptops) ? This chipset is made by Intel an …
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How difficult is to reverse engineer a IC Die?

Can anyone tell me how difficult, time consuming and expensive is to reverse all layers of a die ? Say a die from a recent model SoC Processor IC found in smartphone devices such as the Qualcomm Snapd …
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Antenna Design Filtering Out UnWanted Frequencies

I was wondering if someone could explain to someone with no electrical engineering background where would one place the resonator whose sole responsibility is to amplify sine waves at a particular fre …