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Episode: Beginners Guide to IC Reverse Engineering – With a High Likelihood of Survival! (DS2025)
Description: Peel back IC layers: decapping, delayering, imaging, and analysis for curious beginners.
My curiosity often knows no bounds, especially when it comes to understanding how things work. That’s why I’ve often wondered how certain ICs function internally and how one can uncover their secrets. This curiosity led me to start exploring the world of chip reverse engineering, even without any prior experience. After several mishaps (and a few rather risky experiments), I finally achieved my first results and found myself falling ever deeper down the rabbit hole.
While researching techniques, I discovered the Siliconpr0n community—a group of bri...