When I had access to a wire bonder, we took EPROMs that had been plugged in upside down
and removed the lids. We'd see a blown wire and replace it.
On several of these parts we found that 100% worked. So it would seem that no silicon
damage was done, just the bonding wire was blown like a fuse.
I doubt this method would repair those blown from excess programming voltage.
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Curious Marc via cctalk
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Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 9:04:07 PM
To: Mark G Thomas; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: EPROM baking
I see the same things. Some chips just won't reprogram. Symptoms include failure to
program just like you, but also "chip backwards" errors. Can't remember the
chip brands, I just toss them out when that happens. I have not found any way to
resuscitate them. Maybe ~10% of the chips I tried had this, so rather frequent, but never
any from new old stock. The failed ones were all previously programmed chips, just
erased.
Marc
On Dec 20, 2017, at 6:18 PM, Mark G Thomas via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
My stash of TI and NEC 2732s seem to have the disease, but my ST,
Mitsubishi, and several others program fine.
In the case of a bunch of 2732s, I have tried both a vintage DataI/O 29A
programmer and a modern Batronix programmer, with the same results.
I don't think I have a programmer problem.
I still swear someone in the late 80's had me baking EPROMs in an oven
to restore their programability, but I don't remember the specifics. I
tried a few at 450F for 15 minutes, but they still won't program.
Mark
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