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Systems Analysis

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What we analyze

Chipworks has documented infringement on over 200 electronic systems in numerous industries, involving a wide range of products and devices:  

  • Consumer electronics: smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, DVD players and recorders, portable audio devices (MP3 players), game consoles, televisions, projectors, satellite receivers, digital clocks, and GPS receivers
  • Computer systems: personal computers and laptops, PDAs, monitors, CD/DVD writers, hard disks, video cards, mice, DSL modems, network cards, wireless cards, routers, printers, scanners, and flash memory cards
  • Networks and communications including: IP, LAN/L2, VoIP, TDM, wireless, and Web
  • Automotive: anti-lock braking systems, electronic power steering, and keyless entry and ignition
  • Medical devices: blood pressure monitors and digital thermometers

Examples of our experience and capabilities

  • Reverse engineering: multichip module circuit extraction, board level circuit extraction, software extraction, disassembly, and decompilation
  • Functional testing: apparatus and test case generation (e.g., custom and evaluation boards, test environment), physical, probing, sniffing, GUI, and software functional analysis
  • Inspection: product teardown, tracing connections
  • Standards review such as: 802.11, CDMA2000, DOCSIS, HDSL
  • Literature review: service and user manuals, Internet articles and publications, product datasheets  

Our value

Chipworks helps you generate the infringement evidence you need by:  

  • Conducting analyses that require a combination of expertise, such as hardware analysis combined with circuit and software engineering
  • Performing difficult analyses such as extracting key information from highly complex and secure chips and embedded memories for the purposes of supporting your infringement evidence requirements
  • Applying a wide range of methodologies to produce a claim chart, such as literature and standards reviews, functional testing, and reverse engineering

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