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TI PS54394 (100% Quality PNG)
Every Texas Instrument IC I have opened so far uses copper connection points. This has been a serious pain for me because these connections are much harder to melt and detach from the plastic package. These ones in particular are much thicker than normal, even after I got it detached from the package, the copper traces were STILL connected and the chip was hanging on for dear life. I had to manually break them, which leaves large sections of the wires protruding from the surface of the die. This makes cleaning a nightmare, and it confuses my camera's focus.
The remaining debris you see are mostly plastic residue - which I cannot remove due to the darn copper wires!
Texas Instrument's website describes this as a "3A Dual Channel Synchronous Step-Down Switcher with Integrated FET". I have no idea what that means, so here is the data sheet www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps54394.pdf
I believe this is some sort of power delivery IC and as the name suggests it is capable of handling 3 amps, which would explain the relatively large wires.
Camera: Pixel 2XL
Number of Images: 50
Overlap: 65%
Microscope Objective: 10X
Microscope Eyepiece: 10X
Camera Zoom: 2.2X (Prevents distortion)
Grid Used: 3x3 (Panning Aid)
Capture Motion: Serpentine
Stitching Software: Autopano Giga
TI PS54394 (100% Quality PNG)
Every Texas Instrument IC I have opened so far uses copper connection points. This has been a serious pain for me because these connections are much harder to melt and detach from the plastic package. These ones in particular are much thicker than normal, even after I got it detached from the package, the copper traces were STILL connected and the chip was hanging on for dear life. I had to manually break them, which leaves large sections of the wires protruding from the surface of the die. This makes cleaning a nightmare, and it confuses my camera's focus.
The remaining debris you see are mostly plastic residue - which I cannot remove due to the darn copper wires!
Texas Instrument's website describes this as a "3A Dual Channel Synchronous Step-Down Switcher with Integrated FET". I have no idea what that means, so here is the data sheet www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps54394.pdf
I believe this is some sort of power delivery IC and as the name suggests it is capable of handling 3 amps, which would explain the relatively large wires.
Camera: Pixel 2XL
Number of Images: 50
Overlap: 65%
Microscope Objective: 10X
Microscope Eyepiece: 10X
Camera Zoom: 2.2X (Prevents distortion)
Grid Used: 3x3 (Panning Aid)
Capture Motion: Serpentine
Stitching Software: Autopano Giga