Hacker News·4 min read·hard
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
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A new technical puzzle has been released that challenges participants to reverse engineer an ASIC by analyzing its GDS layout file. Participants must recover the netlist and determine the chip's function to solve the challenge by September 2026.
Earlier this year we published a puzzle that handed you a complete neural network and asked you to figure out what it did. The response was great, so we’ve made another one! This time, we’re going much deeper down the tech stack.
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