Chaos Communication Congress

Proprietary silicon ICs and dubious marketing claims? Let's fight those with a microscope! (38x52)

Air date: Dec 27, 2024

Custom silicon chips are black boxes that hold many secrets, like internal ROMs, security features and audio DSP algorithms. How does one start reverse engineer them? Let's look at the basics of silicon reverse engineering, what gate array chips are, and how some tooling can generate Verilog code automatically from a die shot.