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Yes it is, see https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/mame-devs-are-cracking-open-arcade-chips-to-get-around-drm/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/mame-de
by CodeArtisan 7y ago
Yes it is, see https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/mame-devs-are-cracking-open-arcade-chips-to-get-around-drm/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/mame-devs-are-crackin... or http://www.visual6502.org/ http://www.visual6502.org/
but next CPUs will have vertically stacked circuitry making reverse engineering much more harder (impossible?).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_integrated_circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_integrated_c...
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/foveros https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/foveros
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoWhy would stacking layers make it impossible? The process will be destructive, but I would expect it to work.
- plutonorm 7y agoHow would you ensure you only etched away the layers you were interested in?
- userbinator 7y agoIt's already possible to delayer pretty accurately --- see the visual6502 project linked above.