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Re:What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if the... by bunnie on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:32AM (#25043324)
It's a bit like trying to detect whether you are running in a virtual machine or not. You can't trust a chip to run a piece of code to introspect on itself; instead a more reliable characterization of a chip may come from examining how it fails when you throw it stuff that is out-of-spec.

For example, glitching the clock may lead to a repeatable behavior that could only be produced if no additional circuitry has been added to the critical path that leads to the glitch.

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