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How do they get such high resolution? An electron microscope or something? Such a cool blog, I've seen it featured on HaD a few times.
by darksim905 13y ago
How do they get such high resolution? An electron microscope or something? Such a cool blog, I've seen it featured on HaD a few times.
- rdl 13y agoDecent optical microscope is more than adequate for photos like that; electron microscope is for gate-level. Zac Brown and Adam Laurie are doing awesome stuff (with cheap equipment, relatively) in chip teardowns; basically the stuff Chris Tarnovsky (flylogic, now ioactive) does with $5mm stuff, they do 90% with $5-10k.
- ableal 13y agoAnalog circuits are fairly big, this is taken with a regular microscope. You can see that the chip is a few millimeters square. Besides, electron microscope pictures are monochromatic.
- BarsMonster 13y agoThis is optical microscope with 5mp digital camera. Multiple shots (from 4 to 800 for large chips) are stitched in 1 big panorama.