Decapping

Decapping a microchip is the process of removing the protective (possibly plastic) coating of a microchip so that the actual (most likely silicon) chip itself is revealed for visual inspection of the micro circuits. This process is typically done in order to debug a manufacturing problem with the chip, or possibly to copy information from the chip.

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