3 papers
cs.CR2026
SoK: From Silicon to Netlist and Beyond Two Decades of Hardware Reverse Engineering Research
Zehra Karadağ, Simon Klix, René Walendy +5
Hardware serves as the root of trust in modern computing systems, making Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) essential for security assurancefrom design verification and supply-c…
cs.CR2025
HAL -- An Open-Source Framework for Gate-Level Netlist Analysis
Julian Speith, Jörn Langheinrich, Marc Fyrbiak +7
HAL is an open-source framework for gate-level netlist analysis, an integral step in hardware reverse engineering. It provides analysts with an interactive GUI, an extensible plugi…
cs.CR2023
Stealing Maggie's Secrets -- On the Challenges of IP Theft Through FPGA Reverse Engineering
Simon Klix, Nils Albartus, Julian Speith +9
Intellectual Property (IP) theft is a cause of major financial and reputational damage, reportedly in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars annually in the U.S. alone. Field…