Chip Search for Intellectual Property is a new method to reverse engineer chip database files to determine if they contain a given intellectual property (IP) block. This is accomplished using our innovative custom built tools, the first tools ever created to perform these tasks. With integrated circuits (IC)s becoming so complex, and containing such fine scale geometry, the old fashioned reverse engineering techniques are becoming difficult, if not impossible, to perform.

Our tools can perform fast, complete, and definitive searches on a chip database to determine if a circuit is present, even if the database is very large.