Inaccuracy: not X-rays. They decapitated the chip with hot sulfuric acid and took the photos using a couple of Nikon microscopes.
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote: > This is kind of cool. They took a 6502, X-rayed it, vectorized the > photographs, and then used polygon intersection to implement an emulator in > JavaScript. I haven't hears of anyone doing anything like that before. Made > me think of the FONC TCP/IP bootstrap in it's surprising straightforwardness > and unorthodoxy. > > Also, it seems to suggest a "polygonal language," which is interesting to me. > > You can watch a color coded image of the processor doing it's thing and even > step through code, right in your browser. I really think this could be a fun > way to teach kids about microprocessors. > > Thought I'd share, hopefully this is interesting to folks:) > > http://www.visual6502.org _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
