oric_dan(333):
went to go where chips go to die
That will be silicon heaven then.
That place is only where all "good" chips go to die.
Yep, the 'bad' chips I've worked with and destroyed went into a trash can.
Does anyone remember working with the first early cmos logic chips? If you ended up in your design not using all the gates on a given cmos logic chip and forgot to wire all their unused input pins to Vcc or ground, they would burn up the chip due to device oscillation. I learned that by pressing my thumb onto one to see if cmos chips did indeed run much cooler then the 7400 series of TTL chips of the same era. A nice painful blister went with that lesson learned and not forgotten.
Lefty