Ingineer said:It's only applied on dense SMD packages, you'll see it often on QFP, BGA, QFP, etc. Something like SOIC is dense enough, so there is no need. (The problem occurs when the spacing between the pins is very small)sorphin said:Good point.. Why not do it to the components on the other side then? As for not for anti tampering.. i have had chips that they only coated the pins before with a black epoxy (but left the top of the chips uncovered.. that's why that was what i suspected first.. oh well.
-Phil
True, however if you look at the pic again, 8 pin soics and even the regulator have it.
re: the open source, good to know. sounds like you and i both have been in it for about similar time frames.
you think the micro is sending the data? i don't recall any flash.