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Bastelwombat

@kenshirriff How come the "wire" over the channel doesn't act as a second gate?

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Ken Shirriff

@bastelwombat The oxide layer is much, much thicker for the wire crossing than for the gate.

Bastelwombat

@kenshirriff I'm guessing that's a challenge when reverse engineering such a chip. What tricks are there, to overcome this?

Ken Shirriff

@bastelwombat It's not too difficult to distinguish the wire crossings from the transistor gates. In this chip, the gates are considerably wider.

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