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 ...

We are used to stories about reverse engineering integrated circuits ... timer peripheral chip for the wildly succesful Z80 8-bit microprocessor, in a 28-pin dual-in-line package.

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

Skorobogatov Initially I thought those three chips are based on the Sharp SM-4 series CMOS microprocessor cores ... I have to take better dieshots and do some reverse engineering to figure out what's ...

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 ...

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 ...