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 Tools that rely on standard cells or other regular layout
+[[https://twitter.com/furrtek/status/1216091911020253184?s=20|Furrtek experiment]]
 ===== ARES =====
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 [[http://degate.org/|http://degate.org/]]
+http://degate.zfch.de/
 The highest profile FOSS tool.  Tutorials and other stuff available.
 Users have noted significant stability issues.  I (JM) tried tool again in 2016 and noted considerable stability improvements, but still had it crash on me before I was able to get any results.  Still, it might not take that much work to stabilize the tool and unite the community behind it.
+====== bsim ======
+[[https://bitbucket.org/spramod/bsim-tetc14/overview|bitbucket.org/spramod/bsim-tetc14/overview]]
+Implements the following paper algos. Provides aggregation and function inference scheme, but doesn't reach behavioural HDL level.
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-An experimental semi-automated polygon capture tool for chips using lambda rules (grid layout)
+An experimental crowdsourced semi-automated polygon capture tool for chips using lambda rules (grid layout)
 [[https://siliconpr0n.org/wiki/doku.php?id=pr0ntools:cfcv:pr0nsweeper|Link]]
+Above: Playstation 1 CPU top metal test using confocal microscope
 ===== psxdev =====
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   * Ken S: tried some things, but think didn't get far
   * Visual 6502: don't recall details except that they claimed although they could get some automated, it took more time to fix mistakes than it would to do from scratch
+  * [[https://nerdstuffbycole.blogspot.com/2020/01/end-of-year-update.html|ColeJ AY-3-8500 experiments]]
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 Internal python tool to help draw polygons.  Not publicly released
+====== Netlist extraction ======
+A lot of people roll their own for this and that
+===== dietools =====
+https://github.com/SiliconAnalysis/dietools
+"Series of tools for die shot reverse-engineering"
+A few people use this one, so its arguably the most popular
+===== polychip =====
+https://github.com/RobertBaruch/polychip
+"Python app to extract a netlist of NMOS transistors from an Inkscape diagram."
+===== magic =====
+Magic VLSI, along with many other semi tools, should have something of this sort
+====== References ======
+    * Reverse Engineering Digital Circuits Using Functional Analysis (Pramod Subramanyan): [[http://www.academia.edu/2909575/Reverse_Engineering_Digital_Circuits_Using_Functional_Analysis|http://www.academia.edu/2909575/Reverse_Engineering_Digital_Circuits_Using_Functional_Analysis]]