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To: Shane Geary who wrote (70657)	9/1/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1576164

Shane, I expect those lines will be short and avoided if possible due to avoidance requirements of other traces. There are websites about all this tiny art: chipworks.com is one of them, there are quite a few, can anyone supply some more? I bet there are a million of them out there, just get a microscope and start looking. If you get some of the ceramic military chips you can easily crack the lid and have a good view. The plastic chips tend to have their innards filled with epoxy and you need to use cresylic acid and methylene chloride to soften the epoxy and an ultrasonic bath to jar the degraded plastic loose. The site I listed specializes in chip analysis. Reverse engineering in other wordz. Bill