PCB Bring-Up & Debug — question 7 of 10
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You've localized a shorted power rail to a general area of the board containing three different ICs, but you don't have time or spare parts to reflow all three off to test them individually. Describe how you would use trace cuts or pin lifts to bisect the fault and identify exactly which IC is at fault, while keeping the process as reversible as possible.