Analog Reversing
I was just thinking of reversing the old 339 comparators (yes the datasheet gives full schematic) to practice on a production IC. Anyone ever done these, or other simple IC's?
The discussions with rambus in the other analog topic made me think quite a lot over this - IC copyright is dedicated to the mask, and the copyright law contains a section explaining that reversing your own IC is perfectly legal as long as your structure and layout are unique.
Anyone interested in a reverse-engineering topic? I start with die photos too, so anyone who can write a c program to unpack photos to gds is very needed. I took one class in digital image processing, and finding shiny metal 1 edges is very easy in comparison to reading the alphabet!
Anyone care to lend their help in a standardized reverse-engineer library? Natonal Semi vs. Intersil vs TI vs Linear Tech vs. Maxim vs. Micrel vs. anyone have some reversed schematics to start a category?
We are a small group, but with a lot of talent - maybe elektroda should start a fabless IC company!