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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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Why is the Vcc pin almost always next to the GND pin?

I have went through numerous times where the Vcc pin is shorted with the GND pin causing damage to the entire microcontroller, for example, pins 3 and 4 and pins 5 and 6 in the ATmega328P : Image sou …
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Can I increase the voltage coming out of an IC pin? [closed]

I have a PCB with an IC TLE8209 - 1E, the out1 pin of this IC has a voltage of 11.50 V. However, I need at least 12 V to be present in this out1 pin. Here's a simplified schematic of the PCB with the …
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How to remove glued IC chip from PCB?

I used rework station hot air to 360 degrees Celsius for 3 minutes and the IC didn't come off! I hope I didn't damage it for prolonged heat exposure. Then I found out the IC is glued, I couldn't find …
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How to clean oxidized IC Vcc pin?

After probing around to find out why there is no voltage, I noticed that the Vcc pin in the power management IC doesn't have the 12 volts I need. Here is a picture of the IC: The second pin from righ …
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Can I replace an IC in PCB with another IC with partially different part number?

I have the following IC in below picture which is an ECU power driver chip, and its damaged. I only found this replacement chip in below picture, but it has a partially different part number, however …
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How can I manufacture an integrated circuit after prototyping with an FPGA? [duplicate]

I don't want to build the integrated circuit myself, I want to send the schematics to an IC factory to build my design and ship it back to me. Is that possible? I have finished prototyping on the FPGA …
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