Black-Box Hardware
Firmware and embedded systems with no documentation, old or new, reverse engineered down to the chip. One of our specialties.
Black-box hardware is one of our specialties, not a side offering. Boards with no schematics, chips with no datasheets, firmware with no source: we go in and figure out exactly what it does and how it does it.
Old hardware you're dependent on: A piece of equipment that's been running for years, maybe decades, and everything downstream of it depends on it continuing to work exactly the way it does. The manufacturer stopped supporting it a long time ago, and nobody currently at your company knows what's actually happening inside it.
End-of-life components: A part your product or your infrastructure depends on has been discontinued. The manufacturer isn't making it anymore, and every remaining unit you have is a countdown clock. Before that clock runs out, we can reverse engineer the part, its function, its interfaces, its behavior, and either source a compatible replacement or design one from scratch.
Newer hardware with no documentation: It's not just old gear. Plenty of current-generation boards and devices ship with locked-down or nonexistent documentation, whether by design or because the vendor simply doesn't provide it. Same approach, same result: we work from the physical board and the signals it produces, not from a datasheet that doesn't exist.
What We Deliver
Full characterization of the board or chip: what it does, how it communicates, what depends on it. Schematics and documentation that didn't exist before. And where the real gap is a discontinued part you can no longer buy, a compatible replacement or a redesigned equivalent that keeps your system running without a forklift replacement of everything around it.
Old board, new board, documented or not: if you're dependent on hardware nobody can explain anymore, we can fill the gap.