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It never ceases to amaze me that someone can look at these die pictures and knows what’s going on. All I see is a bunch of copper colored squares
by syntaxing 5y ago
It never ceases to amaze me that someone can look at these die pictures and knows what’s going on. All I see is a bunch of copper colored squares
- 60Vhipx7b4JL 5y agoafter some time it's fairly easy. E.g. if you know it has a 4 core cpu, you're just looking for the same area four times.
- MisterTea 5y agoIts not far off from looking at a circuit board and recognizing layout patterns and chip shapes to get a feel for whats going on. e.g. Larger chips are usually of interest. A larger chip with one or more little rectangular chips next to or surrounding it is likely the CPU and RAM/Flash/ROM. Smaller chips are interface or power regulators depending on their proximity to ports and other components. Groups of inductors, capacitors and transistors are likely power supplies. It all comes with experience.
- hobs 5y agoI honestly thought being able to recognize ground up spices by eye was an amazing feat until I started cooking more than once a month.
- stavros 5y agoYou develop your intuition by looking at (or designing) a lot of these. It's like any other profession, I guess, experience makes pattern matching easier.