Title :
Understanding integrated circuits
Author :
Chisholm, Gregory H. ; Eckmann, Steven T. ; Lain, Christopher M. ; Veroff, Robert L.
Author_Institution :
Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA
Abstract :
Reverse engineering is the process of learning as much as possible about an IC device by transforming a detailed design description into successively higher levels of abstraction. This tutorial focuses on deriving a module-level description from a gate-level netlist
Keywords :
integrated circuit design; reverse engineering; IC device; gate-level netlist; levels of abstraction; module-level description; netlist; reverse engineering; Adders; Bipartite graph; Circuit testing; Clocks; Integrated circuit testing; Laboratories; Libraries; Logic testing; Reverse engineering; Tree graphs;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
