How to Verify a Chip's Voltage and Ground Pin

In most cases, like 99% of cases, you can literally just take the chip number, Google it and pull up the data sheet. You know exactly what the pin out is. Most of the time, most of the time you don't need to be figuring out which is the clock pin because they're not changing that stuff. There are cases that I've seen where either there's a dot on top of a chip and that dot is in one of the corners and that references which one is chip, which one is pin one. And so sometimes they'll put a dot somewhere else or they'd put a dot on multiple corners so you have to figure it out yourself. That's savage

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