I don't think I'll tell Travis Goodspeed what I'm doing to his wonderful tool...
(I'm adding template matching to MaskRomTool and it's doing a *spectacular* job at detecting flipped bits based on their diffusion shape)
#ICRE #ICReverseEngineering
The front base part of an Olympus BH2 metallurgical microscope, shown mounted on an aluminium base plate. The Y axis CNC motor and coupler are visible in black, front centre of the base plate. Behind it is a set of three RGB LEDs firing into a beam combiner cube (X-cube) pillaged from a scrapped 3LCD projector. A Makerbase MKS GEN1.4 3D printer control board is visible at the edge of the aluminium plate, with a halogen lamp plugged into it. A load of cables run from there to the LED driver boards.
Lunchtime project complete - this is the MKS GEN 1.4 (RAMPS 1.4) board which runs my CNC microscope. It now has RGB LED and halogen lamp brightness controls. #pyuscope #icre #icreverseEngineering
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Which pad is which? #BSBACM edition.
First we trace out the power pads...
There are 52 bond pads and 48 pins, so 4 of those pads need to double up...
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I wonder what algorithm GIMP uses for "colour to grey". It seems to be slow, but on this chip at least, it's really good at 'seeing through' the dirt left over from delayering.
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Started doing some #ICRE on the ACM ASICs
OSD - siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php
ASIC - siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php
Both seem to use the same process […]
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I would love to know why the Acorn/#ARM Albion IOC has an all-seeing-eye symbol on the die. #ICReverseEngineering #ICRE
Any #ICRE #ICReverseEngineering folks recognise these logos or the text? They're on a bunch of random silicon dice and packaged chips I was given.
Text: Austria Mikro Systeme 1999
EURO-PRACTICE
P236
0000-07
69332-A37990-01
An early (but faulty) ARM chip being decapsulated with hot air
The remains of a complete decapped ARM chipset
Chips a la Phil #icre #ICReverseEngineering
It's a blasting a silicon chip with a mini torch to remove the passivation kind of night #icre
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I've been taking the tops off silicon chips again ...!
This time it's a weird chip called the M4613D/A which turned up in a Blaupunkt data terminal. A computer museum in Spain dumped the ROMs, and Pernod is working on a MAME emulation […]
I always love when the ICRE presentation announcements come out and I can find new people to follow! #ICRE
神経科学の革新を支えるRbfox3-iCreマウスの魅力 #岐阜県 #岐阜市 #岐阜大学 #Rbfox3 #iCre
神経科学研究に新たな一歩を築くRbfox3-iCreマウスの開発。遺伝子組換えの進展がもたらす可能性を探ります。
Slightly disappointed. Decapped the Rucify ASIC from a Zip drive last night. Can't see anything through the brown polyimide topcoat. Flame torching the topcoat didn't do anything, but a hot rosin boil removed the die attach compound.
This is going to need some headscratching […]
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Another great #38c3 talk, "Proprietary ICs and dubious marketing claims - let's fight these with a microscope!" by Giulio Zausa.
Reverse engineering the gate arrays from a Roland piano using Inkscape and Verilog - neat!
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/492
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