I recently found a couple of XC2018 in a drawer. Although
> these will probably never see any use again it got me
> thinking that a chip photo of these chips will probably
> look pretty nice.
>
> Has anyone seen such a photo somewhere? My guess is that
> it will probably look rather impressive as older chips
> usually allows you to really appreciate the effort that
> went into the design.
Through a couple of web searches I found the following page which I have never seen before:
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There are a couple of reports related to FPGAs on that page and some for CPLD.
The following book was also quite interesting:
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/Andreas