Reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color #Nintendo #GameBoy #Gaming @kenshirriff
Ken Shirriff provides an excellent dive into reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color. The Nintendo Game Boy Color is a handheld game console that was released in 1998. It uses an audio amplifier chip to drive the internal speaker or stereo headphones. In this blog post, I reverse-engineer this chip from die photos and explain how it works. It’s essentially three power op-amps with some interesting circuitry inside. See the entire deep dive here. Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/09/reverse-engineering-the-audio-amplifier-chip-in-the-nintendo-game-boy-color-nintendo-gameboy-gaming-kenshirriff/