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What?

An Integrated Circuit (IC) Reverse Engineering (RE) Wiki

Based upon the following principle:

Observation 11.6. Understanding layouts and cross sections of semiconductor devices does not require all of the physics and manufacturing details. To gain a fairly useful — though merely qualitative — appreciation, it suffices to differentiate among

* (conductive) metals,
* (conductive) polysilicon,
* strongly n- and p-doped semiconductor materials,
* weakly n- and p- doped semiconductor materials, and
* (nonconductive) dielectrics.

“Digital Integrated Circuit Design: From VLSI Architecture to CMOS Fabrication” by Hubert Kaeslin

Thus this wiki does not attempt to deal with detailed device physics, floorplanning algorithms, etc. Rather, it aims to provide a high level qualitative feel of how ICs are built so that they can be analyzed for one reason or another. Information here is not aimed to be sufficient to actually design an IC but may give a good feel of what goes into it.

The most developed pages are currently:

  • Decapsulation, especially related to epoxy
  • Research paper and presentations lists
  • List of die image archives

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