Technical Capabilities: Reverse Engineering and Technical Analysis Methodologies.

Chipworks' engineers are reverse engineering experts, our capabilities date back to the birth of the semiconductor industry. We service clients in numerous industry sectors, with a wide range of devices, systems and products for patent and technical intelligence purposes. It is our technical analysis methodologies, combined with patent expertise that makes us an indispensable resource to the largest semiconductor, consumer electronics, computer & peripheral organizations worldwide. Chipworks provides complete reverse engineering and circuit, process and systems analysis.

Our capabilities include:

• Code extraction and analysis
• PC Board extraction
• System level analysis of operations, signal paths and interconnections
• Semiconductor circuit extraction from decapsulating and delayering the chip, to transistor, gate and block level extraction identifying interconnections and components
• Schematic recreation
• Process and package analysis to examine the structure, materials, components and manufacturing methods
• Microprobing
• Product tear-downs to identify specific sub-products, internal boards, components, assembly and packaging techniques

Types of devices and systems we have expertise in:

• Application software
• Audio-visual
• Cell phones
• Digital cameras
• DSPs
• Electronic games
• Embedded systems
• Flash drives
• Handheld devices
• Household electronics
• Memory controllers
• Microprocessors
• Operating systems
• Optical drives
• PCs
• PDAs
• Printers
• Software applications
• Video displays
• Others

Represented industry sectors:

• Automotive electronics
• Computers and peripherals
• Communications
• Consumer electronics
• Displays
• Gaming
• Industrial electronics
• Medical electronics
• Video and graphics systems