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Is that really a small LCD wire-bonded to the top of the chip as a live readout device? That's a nifty trick.


I think it's your nifty imagination, it's just the watermark on the image :)


Possibly, although in the first of these the green thing in the middle has half a watermark on (very visible) while the rest of the watermark extends to the right, and in the second I can clearly see bondwires running from the edge of the die to something brownish in the central area.

It might be die-on-die packaged memory or something else part of the original, but I'd like to know what it is.

http://weaponre.com/config/R8J328XX_Decapped_WM.jpg

http://weaponre.com/config/CXD5130R_Decap_WM.jpg


If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it's SRAM. Nice, regular columns of memory.




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