THE VIDEO SHELF · chip reverse engineering
Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
Ken Shirriff walks through how to reverse engineer integrated circuits from die photos, using famous chips as examples, in a Hackaday SuperConference talk.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a clear account of the craft of reading chips from photographs.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- HACKADAY
- Topic
- chip reverse engineering
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Have you ever seen one of Professor Sussman's talks where he analyzes a circuit diagram? For example, see Prof Sussman's 2011 StrangeLoop talk (circuit analysis example begins at ~25 min mark)... We Really Don't Know How To Compute! [LINK] If you have the hardware schematic …
espeed on Hacker News · 2019-07
In Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]Some hobbyists use these die shots to reverse engineer older chips, bypassing the need to decap the chips themselves. The craft is explained nicely in this video [VIDEO] .
gnunez on Hacker News · 2021-01
In Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps
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