Silicon Prawn

Misc topics:

• glossary
• Marking: package marking
• Carrier structure: how carriers are made
• Carriers: types of carriers
• Forgery: clones, phonies, etc
• Process technology: identifying the process an IC was made with
• Firms: companies that perform reverse engineering services
• Legal: why this can exist at all
• Manufacture: how are chips made anyways
• Resources: misc resources and references
• Routing: power and signal routing techniques
• Sabotage: playing dirty
• obscurification: confusing attackers
• Determining pinout
• Side channel attacks
• true mask art: silicon doodles
• vlsi_design: knowing how to build can help take apart
• Designing vs reversing
• Design for manufacturing: related to yield, price, etc
• glove

Identifying counterfeit ICs: http://www.cti-us.com/pdf/CCAP-101InspectExamplesA6.pdf