19 Nov
2006
19 Nov
'06
7:18 a.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Chris M wrote:
It is possible to repair this, it is just not economical.
What you need is a focused ion beam machine.
Most of bigger IC design centers have them.
IIRC somewhere around 600USD/hour operating costs, probably higher by now.
Jos Dreesen
--- Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
wrote:
Nah. Tony Duell, on the other hand...
Gordon
(...cracked the bad 4201 open and actually
managed
to find the fault under a
microscope - a blown trace in a metalization layer
... not that I can do
anything about it.)
No chance at all? lol