loose-electron wrote on Oct 14th, 2015, 9:54am:Generally the presence of inductors within an IC indicates an RF front end circuit of some form.
Inductors take up a lot of space and except for RF circuits, designers have generally been able to avoid putting them inside an IC.
Thanks loose-electron. Would you be able to share that once a De-cap is done to expose the die (top layer) what further examination could be done to confirm and verify that the inductors are in fact representing a transceiver or transmitter design ? Would the presence of these inductors also represent receiver (receive but not send out) technology ? Would locating amplifiers, modulation circuits, oscillator etc on the top layer also facilitate the presence of a transceiver or transmitter ?
Thanks very much