Giulio Zausa's MMO-CHIP Makes Reverse Engineering Old Silicon Chips a Multiplayer Game
Software engineer Giulio Zausa has designed a tool that aims to make it possible to go from a die-shot of a silicon chip to a working Verilog implementation "in an hour:" the Multiplayer CMOS Standard Cell Chips Reverse Engineering Tool, or MMO-CHIP for short.
"Reverse engineering old custom chips from microscope pictures is cool, but oh so painfully slow," Zausa explains of the problem his tool sets out to solve. "Last time I did this I spent two weeks waking up, annotating wires in Inkscape, going to bed, and then dreaming about more wires. So I decided to bite the bullet and finally build some better tooling, to keep future me more sane as well. MMO-CHIP [is] an open source silicon reverse engineering tool I built for helping preserve and emulating custom undocumented chips, like the DSPs [Digital Signal Processors] used in old synthesizers. It's web based and allows collaborative...
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