off-topic: Telling chips apart?

[Igor Gueths]

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That's true. Although what I'm refering to more are custom circuit 
boards...And I've also been interested in what exactly is on this sblive 
card I have over here.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
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> well the cpu is obvious it's large and square and has a heatsink 
> sitting on it. it's also in a zif socket.
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 
> 10:32:37AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> > Hi all. Has anyone figured out a good way to tell chips apart on a 
> > circuit board? Because I've tried many times, however they are all 
> > shaped the same so I can't tell the difference between say, a CPU and an 
> > EEPROM. Just wondering if anyone has encountered a similar or same 
> > problem. And if so what was/were the sollutions? Thanks! 
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