In an ideal world, every single battery pack for power tools would use the same physical interface and speak a clearly documented protocol with chargers. Since we live in a decidedly less-than-ideal ...

What is reverse engineering? Tools used to reverse engineer a PCB. Specifics about de-layering Printed-circuit-board (PCB) reverse engineering is a method of analyzing and understanding the design ...

Over the past two decades, academic research on Integrated Circuit (IC), Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and netlist reverse engineering has steadily grown. However, knowledge remains fragmented ...

Recently a client asked me for advice on setting up a reverse engineering project. The company had just hired a senior engineer from a competitor that had pulled ahead of them the year before with the ...

“Reverse engineering” has something of a negative connotation. People tend to associate it with corporate espionage or creative desperation. In reality, reverse engineering is a useful skill and a ...

The National Security Agency (NSA), the same agency that brought you blockbuster malware Stuxnet, has now released Ghidra, an open-source reverse engineering framework, to grow the number of reverse ...

A few semesters back, [Jordan] was in an Intro to Hardware Security course at CMU. The final project was open ended, and where some students chose projects like implementing a crypto algorithm or ...

For years, I interviewed extreme high achievers such as Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions to figure out what made them successful. I then reverse-engineered their path to success and ...

Reverse engineering refers to the process of working backward from an available product to understand what its parts are, how it functions and/or how it was made. The Texas Uniform Trade Secret Act, ...