Reverse engineering vintage PCBs

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Jan 7 16:55:52 CST 2015


On 1/7/15 2:35 PM, Alan Hightower wrote:
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> I'm seeking advice
> from those who've done it already.
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I've used a circuit beeper or an ohmmeter lots of times. Tony has even more experience
than me. Logically, you form a block diagram of the functional blocks and data paths,
trace those, then begin filling in the clocks and address decoders. You can generally
come up with a map of the buffers for the address and data buses pretty quickly, then
trace back things like chip select decoders.

You don't need to strip the board to do this.





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