If you’ve ever wanted to open up an IC to see what’s inside it, you have a few options. The ceramic packages with a metal lid will succumb to a hobby knife. That’s easy. The common epoxy ...

A 14-pin ceramic flatpack IC. Source: By Tpdwkouaa , from Wikimedia Commons The three are said to have designed the package in 1964, specifically to house new IC dies with ever-increasing numbers ...