Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane

Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip

The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020)

Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

Silicon reverse engineering: The 8085's undocumented flags (2013)

Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old (2019)

The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside

An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array

A Counterfeit 8086 Processor (2020)

MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers

IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display

Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section

Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor

The mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

Using Arc to decode Venter's DNA watermark (2010)

Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021)

Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor

Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die

Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip

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