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    Republic of the Philippines

    Polytechnic University of the Philippines


    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    Microchip Analysis
    Laboratory Activity

    Alva, Jayson T.
    Baronda, Barry P.
    Garlan, Jill B.
    Gregorio, Jenifer S.
    Lapuz, Clarence Joy B.

    BSECE V-4

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    I. Introduction
    Analyzing hardware especially in IC manufacturing industry is a very important process. It requires
    various knowledge about circuits and how they are designed, manufactured and tested.

    Deducing the functionality from imaging their structure is one of the interesting properties of an
    Integrated Circuit or what we call IC. This is known as chip engineering process. It is a process by
    which the IC is examined in order to gain a full understanding of its construction and/or functionality
    (Quadir et. al., 2015). It is widely used to disassemble systems and and devices in a number of
    different contexts such as industrial design, cloning, duplicatiin, and reproduction (McLoughlin,
    2008). It can be done with the aid of appropriate microscopes. Once these images are extracted, if the
    target is too complicated, images can be simulated using custom tools. If not, the relevant portions
    can be manually turned back into the abstract.With the aid of different design softwares, this task
    becomes easier to execute given also the skills and expertise of the person performing the task.

    In chip reverse engineering, the person working on it should know what components are being
    studied. In this case, resistors and MOSFETs were used. Connections were traced using the provided
    layers of metals that have the copper connections. Then, the circuit was analyzed. In this particular
    blocks of circuit system. Our group will try to reverse engineer one of these blocks and try to analyze
    how the circuit operates and functions.

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    II. Circuit

    Circuit with no metal

    Circuit with layer 1 metal

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    Circuit with layer 2 metal

    Whole Chip

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    III. Components with Dimensions

    Device Picture Device Name Dimensions (approximate)

    Resistor 194.564µm x 104.648µm

    47.752µm x 37.084µm
    MOSFET
    (each box)

    15.24µm x 10.668µm
    PMOS
    (each box)

    19.812µm x 11.176µm
    MOSFET
    (each box)

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    NMOS 21.336µm x 7.62µm

    PMOS 5.588µm x 2.032µm

    PMOS 6.096µm x 6.604µm

    NMOS

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    IV. Tracing

    VCC

    Whole circuit connection tracing

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    Vcc Ground Vin

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”


    Republic of the Philippines
    Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
    College of Engineering
    ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ECE) DEPARTMENT

    V. Simulations
    VI. Conclusion
    Through tracing the given diagram and simulation, we conclude that the circuit is a
    _____________. This circuit is (function)_______________________________.

    “The Country’s 1st Polytechnic U”

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