Ordered an extra VSC8512, the same Ethernet PHY I'm using on my switch project, as microscope food.

I've always been curious what the die looks like especially considering it has a ton of SERDES of several different designs, at least one and possibly two embedded CPUs, a DRAM controller, and is generally a nerfed switch ASIC.

I don't expect to be able to dump the 8051 firmware ROM optically but if I can find at least a rough idea of where it is from the optical images maybe I can come back and SEM it if I get my home delayering setup dialed in a bit more.