Hands-On Hardware Hacking
Trainings
Join our hands-on, online, or in person trainings to learn cutting-edge of IC hacking techniques from industry experts. If you're looking to deepen your expertise in hardware security, reverse engineering, or chips inner secrets, our trainings are designed for a range of professionals; from those new to the field, to experienced engineers seeking advanced knowledge.
PRACTICAL IC REVERSE-ENGINEERING
Why Opt for Texplained Trainings?
Our world-class trainings equip you with practical, real-world skills in IC reverse engineering, data extraction, and hardware attacks. Delivered by our expert instructors through flexible formats (online, in-lab, at conferences, or on your premises), you'll gain the foundational knowledge needed for complex operations like hardware backdoor research, digital forensics investigations, IC obsolescence replacement, or IP infringement investigation using reverse engineering techniques.
Online Trainings
Master IC reverse engineering and data extraction from anywhere. Topics include digital electronics, deprocessing, image processing, and netlist extraction.
Course Details:
- Price: starting at 600 €
- Duration: Self-paced, with 1-year access
Three Modules:
1. Digital Electronics for Reverse Engineering
Learn the fundamentals of integrated circuits, digital logic, and memory systems to understand and analyze hardware at the transistor level.
2. Failure Analysis for Reverse Engineering
Explore techniques for deprocessing, imaging, and modifying ICs to recover digital logic and extract critical data.
3. Invasive Attacks
Master methods to identify IC structures, analyze encrypted ROMs, and execute circuit modifications for advanced reverse engineering.
Hands-On Training in Lab
4-Day In-Lab Training: Learn IC reverse engineering, memory extraction, and hardware attacks in our state-of-the-art lab in Sophia-Antipolis. The training describes modern analysis methods involving automation and discuss the efficiency of modern counter-measures in such a context.
2026 Schedule:
- 20 – 23 April
- 7 – 10 September
- 7 – 10 December
Location: Nice (Sophia Antipolis), France
Trainings At Your Premises
Does your team of security researchers, digital forensic specialists, R&D engineers, or embedded systems developers want to master IC Reverse Engineering, advanced data extraction, and high-end chip hacking techniques? Are you looking for a private training experience, exclusively for your group, without participants from other companies?
If so, let's connect! We'll collaborate to design a customized training program that perfectly aligns with your team's current skill level, specific goals, and the precise competencies and knowledge you aim to acquire.
Conference-Based Trainings
Join us at upcoming conferences worldwide for our expert training sessions.
Our next appearances include:
Hardwear.IO Netherlands 2026 - Amsterdam, 16-18 November 2026
3-day on Integrated Circuits Reverse Engineering: ROM is your primary target.
FOUNDER & CTO
Be trained by our expert
Oliver THOMAS studied Electrical Engineering and began his career designing analog circuits for a major semiconductor manufacturer.
He later became Head of one of the world’s leading Integrated Circuit (IC) Analysis Labs, focusing on securing next-generation devices and developing countermeasures against piracy and counterfeiting.
Olivier contributed to the creation of advanced semi- and fully-invasive IC analysis techniques. He has deep expertise in Failure Analysis methods and equipment used to access vulnerable logic in target devices. Combining his IC design background with security research, he continues to develop automated analysis processes.
His work extends beyond smartcards to complex modern semiconductor devices such as System-on-Chips (SoCs).
Olivier is also the creator of ARES (Automated Reverse Engineering Software), a powerful toolchain for efficient IC design analysis, regardless of logical complexity.