Hackaday Supercon - Ken Shirriff : Studying Silicon: Reverse Engineering Integrated Circuits

Ken Shirriff explains how to reverse engineer integrated circuits by opening up and analyzing the silicon dies of famous analog and digital chips.

From the outside, integrated circuits are mysterious black boxes. Here’s how to open up some famous analog and digital chips including 8008 microprocessor, 555 timer, the first FPGA chip, Intel’s first RAM, the 76477 sound effects chip, and a counterfeit RAM chip. Hackaday Superconference: The greatest gathering of hardware hackers, builders, engineers and enthusiasts on the planet returns. Streaming Live talks from our 'Main Stage' in Pasadena, CA. Visit for full list of talks and workshops : hackaday.io/superconference/