EOS damage on this chemically decapsulated operational amplifier was more subtle than most cases that we have analyzed. This suggests that the stress condition was likely just above the maximum operating conditions for the device. In this case the damage was associated with an output pin likely overloaded by another device.

Other examples of EOS damage can be found here …

Example 1  Example 2

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