You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor ... But as [Ken Shirriff] discovered, reverse engineering the chip from die photos reveals some hidden depths. The focus of [Ken]’s exploration ...

Intruders could potentially reverse-engineer a security key if they determined ... Rambus Hamburg said a change in the instructions being run on a microprocessor would also change the time ...

As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction to a ...

Reverse-engineering is especially important with ... Micro Devices Inc., have successfully reverse-engineered Intel Corp. microprocessors to make less-expensive Intel-compatible chips.

Most of us are familiar with the term “reverse engineering.” We generally know that it is ... The landscape of tomorrow will be cluttered with devices that are microprocessor-controlled, including ...

Reverse engineering can help you innovate your product design by enabling you to learn from the best practices, solutions, and techniques of other products or systems in your industry or domain.

In this paper, using a set of carefully designed microbenchmarks, we reverse engineer a precise model of caches found in recent Intel processors that enables accurate prediction of their cache ...

Recently a client asked me for advice on setting up a reverse engineering project. The company had just hired a senior engineer from a competitor that had pulled ahead of them the year before ...