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reverse engineer

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reverse engineer

To isolate the components of a completed system. When a chip is reverse engineered, all the individual circuits that make up the chip are identified. Source code can be reverse engineered into design models or specifications. Machine language can be reversed into assembly language (see disassembler). See obfuscator.



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Because an AES decryption key is required to reverse engineer the encrypted configuration bitstream for a ProASIC3/E device, attempts to copy designs through the interception of the bitstream are futile.
Reducing the cost and time needed to reverse engineer obsolete parts.
It's almost more difficult to reverse engineer a part than to design it in the first place.
 
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