US and Swiss researchers have come up with a technique, called ptychographic X-ray laminography, which can be used to reverse engineer chips, or to verify fabbed chip designs or discover kill switches and hardware trojans. Teams from the University of Southern California and Switzerland’s  Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed the technique. “It’s the only approach ...

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