4 May
2009
4 May
'09
9:14 p.m.
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Keith wrote:
I'm attempting a painful task of extracting logic
from an image of a NMOS die
manufactured in 1984. Initially, I'm only going after a small portion of
logic from the chip. I have a block diagram which appears to roughly match
the chip layout, a pinout, and an overall description of the logic.
How many metal levels? If you can reduce it to shapes on levels, an LVS
tool is theoretically capable of deriving the netlist. Will still be a
lot of work and good tools don't come cheap.
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