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In article <BzBtuu.6t0@inews.Intel.COM> dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy) writes:
>	Even putting it in some sort of ROM section later (to be
>burned in at encasing time or something) would seem to me to be
>extremely cost-ineffective.  But like I said, I really have no idea.

D.J.,

Dallas Semi did something like this with a serially encoded id chip.  
The chip was dirt cheap, so it must have been fairly simple to program.
Obviously they could have used PROM or EERAM, but those do have a life
span... maybe it was just simple fused logic.  Regardless, it was probably
serialized during the testing.  True, it would add a few cents to the 
tester time, but as processors get more and more expensive it wouldn't
be such a bad idea to have them forever marked and traceable...

You heard it hear first :)

Tom

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