FDS RP2C33 and Konami VRC VII decaps by digshadow

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FDS RP2C33 and Konami VRC VII decaps by digshadow

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Lord_Nigh shared these links on IRC earlier, and I thought the forums would be interested. These are Decap photos made by digshadow.

FDS RP2C33: http://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php ... rp2c33_01a
Konami VRC VII: http://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php ... vii_053982

Unfortunately the VRC7 instrument ROM is encoded with a process that doesn't make the bits visually distinct, so they are still a mystery, but I'm told there is a chemical process that might be used to reveal the information later on.
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Any idea of where the functional groups are on each die, especially the two big solid boxes near the bottom of the 2C33?
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Those dies could contain more transistors than the original chipset on the Famicom mainboard..

The two big chunks on RP2C33 could be the ROM mask for wavetable?
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ExtraOrdinary wrote:The two big chunks on RP2C33 could be the ROM mask for wavetable?
As I understand, those actually contain the FDS BIOS itself - the "wavetable" for FDS sound is all RAM.

Incidentally, I've started tracing the RP2C33's metal layer - watch here for progress.
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Yeah, I totally forgot about the BIOS ROM :shock:

What type of RAM does this die include?
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Quietust wrote:watch here for progress.
www.qmtpro.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

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Could have linked http instead of https, alternatively, if the https version is really just your private thing.
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Whoops, forgot about that - switched it to http.
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Very valuable effort.. Thanks, Quietust :)
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