21 Aug
2022
21 Aug
'22
12:43 p.m.
On 8/21/22 12:39, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
These are the transistors? https://imgur.com/aLpqVpE
I'd need to look more closely, but those appear to be clusters of transistors, six of them. They are likely gates.
I got one additional response from another designer: "Looks like some kind of gate array with only the metalization layer being clearly visible. I worked on alot of these in the late 70's. I have no explanation for the bonding pad structures."
Agreed; this has either had its passivation layer removed, or it had never been applied. I suspect the latter, as it would've been removed with acid, and there isn't so much as a trace of debris from that. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA