From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 21:50:11 PST
On Feb 23, 2004, at 10:23 PM, Jim Witte wrote:
>> Step One: Gather parts from old Newton
>
> This does raise an interesting question: would it be possible
> without
> *too* much difficulty (save finding the necessary equipment) to do
> multiple x-ray scans of the MP2000 PCB (it's probably 4-6 layers),
> clean up the image, then run it through a program that would reproduce
> a schematic (after tediously entering in values for the.. oh 60-100-odd
> components on the board? Can such precision focus x-ray even be done
> (or more to the point, *has* it been applied to reverse-engineering - I
> read that such beasts exist), and does such
> schematic-generating/rearrangement software exist?
There are companies that can do this.
And they can reverse engineer multi layer boards, chips, you name it.
Having met people who do it and have had it done I'd buy it.
Although, it's not cheap
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