[coreboot] Offtopic - tapping TxFP packages with flat cables?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Jan 26 23:28:15 CET 2017


Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> > Buy another chip, make a breakout board, remove onboard chip, connect
> > probes to breakout board, connect breakout board to mainboard.
> 
> Thanks, but this is a pretty time-consuming method if I need to tap
> four consecutive legs out of one hundred.

Yes for sure! In general for only a few pins then I'd look for them
in other places on the board. Something like LPC may connect to
multiple chips and even some (unpopulated) debug connector.


> > This is documented behavior of the chipset.
> 
> Awesome, thank you, I never had a single thought that this could be
> a documented behavior

The error message was actually helpful, but I do understand you. :)


//Peter



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