
When you decide to copy protect the firmware on your MCU, how effective are efforts such as setting a lock bit or enabling chip erase modes?
Sergei P. Skorobogatov’s article provides an overview of the methods he’s tried against MCUs from various manufacturers. He outlines both invasive and non-invasive techniques such as chip depackaging, microprobing and fault generation.
This document is somewhat historical in nature, covering techniques developed between 1996-2000. Nevertheless it is regarded as one of the foundational works on this aspect of hardware hacking.
Sergei has updated this information with his PhD thesis from 2004.

There’s also a nice write-up by bunnie on how he hacks into a PIC18F using electrical tape, tweezers and a UV lamp.
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atmega8
atmega32
atmega64
at90can128
33fj256gp506
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