Hacking What IC is this? (Gateway 3DS)

[nitehack]

There is a IC in gateway 3ds that I dont know because I havent one and the pictures of the pcb there is no reference on the forums or name does not appear.
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Does anyone know what this is?

 

[nitehack]

No one?

 

[b00100100]

No one?

There are no markings. It's a 28 pin quad pack. Do you realize how many different silicon circuits could be encapsulated by this standard packaging? If I was going to guess, I'd say it was some sort of micro-controller. But that's a complete guess. Without markings, or seeing how the pins behave in use, nothing can be said about it.

 

[nitehack]

There are no markings. It's a 28 pin quad pack. Do you realize how many different silicon circuits could be encapsulated by this standard packaging? If I was going to guess, I'd say it was some sort of micro-controller. But that's a complete guess. Without markings, or seeing how the pins behave in use, nothing can be said about it.

I think so, it is a microcontroller but I'm not sure ..

 

[mr. fancypants]

You could cut it off and looks if there is something written underneath it and you could try if it works without the chip ... just kidding

 

[hundshamer]

Out of curiosity, can we get a pic of the other side of the board?

 

[Foxi4]

That is the dedicated bricking CPU

Not funny and not really constructive.

I'd say that the only way to have a fair guess at what this thing is is a path of elimination. The Winbond chip is SPI Flash, the other side just has the ACTEL ASIC Pro3. Considering the proximity to the SD slot and the fact that some of the circuits go in that general direction, I'd hazard a guess that it has something to do with it.

Out of curiosity, can we get a pic of the other side of the board?

Here's a set of better pictures: http://gbatemp.net/threads/gateway-pcb-photo.353126/

 

[cracker]

It is a 28pin JLCC FPGA that is probably made by Altera. Just think of it like a CPU with flash memory to store the code it runs inside one chip.