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Degates' purpose is to aid in VLSI-reverse engineering of digital logic in integrated circuits (ICs). Degate helps you to explore layered images from ICs. It matches standard cells on the imagery given by graphical templates and to some degree Degate matches vias and wires. Degate assists you in tracing circuit paths and in reconstructing the net list.
Degate is not a completely automatic analyzing tool. Degate helps you with some automation in your manual chip reverse engineering process.
The official Degate documentation is available here. It is still under construction.
This wiki is still under construction, for more you can follow these links :
- Degate README
- Old Degate website
- Silicon Pr0n
- Silicon Zoo
- Great introduction tutorial to VLSI reverse engineering
- Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU
- Chip reverse engineering conference
- Another chip reverse engineering conference
- Again, another chip reverse engineering conference
- Z80 reverse engineering conference
- A video that shows the procedure going from physical chip to annotated die image to schematic to wiki page
- Reverse engineering a simple CMOS chip in video