James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Apologies for replaying a /. link, but this is one amazing debug capability:
http://tweakers.net/reviews/740/6/chip-magicians-at-work-patching-at-45nm-pagina-6.html
(This is page 6 of a 7-page article)
Regards,
..jim
Just so you know, this is not new.
That does not detract from being impressive and cool engineering.
Chip modification has been done with what is called Focused Ion Beam
(FIB) for a long time.
In addition, bouncing photons off of silicon to see what is going on is
not new, either:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/444/tsang.html
-a
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