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Inside the die of Intel’s 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point (righto.com) Looking inside the Intel 8087, an early floating point chip, I noticed an interesting feature on the die: the substrate bias generation circuit. In this article I explain how this circuit is implemented, using analog and digital circuitry to create a negative voltage.