Circuit Reverse Engineering Engagement
Specifications describe dozens of requirements, market analyst firms track hundreds of individual semiconductor segments, and process technology variations demand thousands of unique design choices. So maybe an “off the shelf” reverse engineering report cannot suit your technical needs or budget.
If you need Custom Circuit Extraction, our business processes help you get quickly engaged, see results, and incorporate them into your own designs.
We will:
- Help you identify target devices
- Remove the die from the package, and delayer to a lower metal or poly sufficient to identify blocks
- Identify blocks targeted for reverse engineering
- Estimate time and cost based on process generation and die area
- Provide a formal proposal with clear scope and options
- Prepare very high magnification SEM image mosaics of thousands of images across all layers
- Fully annotate devices in the image database to generate a flat schematic
- Organize schematics into a hierarchy, providing interim deliverables as needed
- Ship the analysis to you in the ICWorks Browser software for viewing and analyzing the results, cross-referencing the schematics to the images, and exporting information to a netlist format
- Present and discuss results with you to ensure the analysis is clear and useful
IC Reverse Engineering Software
ICWorks Browser is the package that IC Circuit Extraction is delivered in. This EDA-like software has features that make it easy to understand the circuits quickly, and to export netlists that work with your own EDA tools.