Sunday, March 24, 2019

Tyre Pressure Gauge Main IC

This is the main chip from a tyre pressure gauge. It's an AMI, but I can't see any part number on there. It's made in Idaho though, if you look carefully.



I'm not sure if this is a microcontroller. I'm tending towards not, as there doesn't seem to be any ROM or RAM, at least not in quantity. It looks to me like this is discrete logic, in the top half, with some registers and so on dotted about.

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Pressure Sensor

This is the sensor from a cheap air pressure gauge for car tyres.
It shows what is probably a bridge arrangement.


This was imaged through the clear coating that was on top of the die. The die was mounted directly on the PCB.