About this site
This website aims to become a hobbyist reference for silicon reverse engineering.
My main goal is to produce methods and software with relatively cheap hardware to do end-to-end reverse engineering as easily and efficiently as possible.
- IC decapping without dangerous chemicals
- Delayering without expensive machines
- Automated and software assisted image acquisition
- Gigapixel panorama generation
- Circuit tracing, extraction and analysis software
- A complete library and reference on standard cells
About me
I’m a C++ software engineer developing hardware and software for silicon imaging and reverse engineering. I am also the developer of the indie sandbox game Planet Centauri, and a contributor to siliconpr0n.org.
Currently, my released projects are:
- A simple open source XY motorized stage
- Chip tracing tool - silicon reverse engineering of digital logic.
I have published more than 50 panoramas of integrated circuits in high quality and very high resolution (some images can go up to more than 50000 x 50000 pixels).
I’m able to image microcircuits and make panoramas with a magnification up to 1000x, which is the physical optical limit obtainable with visible light.
Most of my images are published under a permissive license (CC BY-NC 4.0) and can be used freely for educational purposes.
For commercial work it is also possible freely, but following these two conditions:
- Each image have to be credited with my name (Boris Marmontel) next to them on the same page. Not in an index table or anything similar.
- Contact me.
Why not using CC BY 4.0 ?
As some people have shown us, CC BY 4.0 don’t imply that your work have to be attributed fairly. A small mention in an index table at the end of a book is legally fine, even if this is basically not what normal people would consider as an attribution.
Why am I doing this ?
I’ve always been fascinated by electronics and how such powerful devices can exist. I want to share this fascinating world, but also collect, archive and preserve this incredible heritage that risks disappearing. In fact most chips are destroyed for recycling…
Images can be used for analysis, detecting counterfeit ICs and reverse engineering.
Or just as beautiful pieces of art.