I looked into reverse engineering of silicon recently, so here are some resources drawn from my comments in a thread about Linux and Intel's PRNG: * Degate, a

I looked into reverse engineering of silicon recently, so here are some resources drawn from my comments in a thread about Linux and Intel's PRNG: * Degate, a somewhat automated "aid in reverse engineering of digital logic in integrated circuits" - http://www.degate.org/ http://www.degate.org/ * Silicon Zoo offers a tutorial / background info on this - http://siliconzoo.org/tutorial.html http://siliconzoo.org/tutorial.html - and it mentions that Pentium I-era chips were "easily viewable" [1], probably with optical microscopes. * A blog about IC reverse engineering - http://uvicrec.blogspot.com/ http://uvicrec.blogspot.com/ (from the owner of http://siliconpr0n.org/ http://siliconpr0n.org/ , which is also relevant)