Hackaday

Reverse Engineering An Oil Burner Comms Board, With A Few Lucky Breaks

Here’s a question for you: How do you reverse engineer a circuit when you don’t even have it in hand? It’s an interesting problem, and it adds a level of difficulty to the already iffy proposition ...
Hackaday

Reverse Engineering The Charge Pump Of An 8086 Microprocessor

You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor, a 40-year-old chip with a mere 29,000 transistors on board that kicked off the 16-bit PC revolution, would have no more tales left to tell. But as [Ken ...
Semiconductor Engineering

U. Of Florida: Protecting Chip-Design IP From Reverse-Engineering

New research paper titled “Hardening Circuit-Design IP Against Reverse-Engineering Attacks” from University of Florida. “Design-hiding techniques are a central piece of academic and industrial efforts ...

Apple faces a rare security breach as iPhone 16e circuit diagrams go public

The iPhone 16e schematic leak is one of the rarest incidents in Apple's history, exposing technical details that usually ...