MMO-CHIP: From Microscope to Verilog in an hour (gpn24) (opens in new tab)
Reverse engineering old custom chips from microscope pictures is cool, but oh so painfully slow! Last time I did this (talk at 38C3), I spent two weeks waking up, annotating wires in Inkscape, going to bed, and then dreaming about more wires. So I decided to bite the bullet and finally build some better tooling, to keep future me more sane as well. In this talk I'll present _MMO-CHIP_, an open source silicon reverse engineering tool I built for helping preserve and emulating custom undocument...
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