Ideas
hardwaresecurity

ASIC reverse engineering toolkit

Create specialized software tools for analyzing and documenting chip designs.

Why now

Hardware security research is growing but lacks accessible tooling.

Who for
Hardware security researchers
Business model
Software licenses
Effort
A few months

Researchers reverse-engineering chips struggle with manual, error-prone processes.

Build software that helps document and analyze chip layouts from microscopy images.

Sell licenses to hardware security firms and academic researchers.

Start with basic annotation tools, then add analysis features.

Niche market size is the main risk.

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