On: A look at the die of the 8086 processor

[mmastrac]

I'm excited for someone to actually reverse engineer that 8086 microcode. Curious what might come out of that.

[kens → mmastrac]

Yes, it will be interesting to look at the microcode. Intel's 8086 patent discusses the microcode in some detail and gives examples of the microcode for a few instructions. So I'm not expecting any huge surprises.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4449184

[saagarjha → kens]

Do you have any sort of automated technique to extract microcode from a picture, or do you do it all by hand?

[rasz → saagarjha]

http://caps0ff.blogspot.com/ guys have a collaboration tool and they often ask people to help with filling/validating mask image to bits conversion