newaetech/chipwhisperer

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1557 stars · 369 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ChipWhisperer is an open-source toolchain for hardware security research, providing capture hardware designs, FPGA/USB firmware, and a Python API for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks. It includes both capture tooling for talking to the hardware and analyzer tooling for processing power traces.

Use cases

• perform side-channel power analysis attacks on embedded devices
• run glitching and fault injection attacks against microcontrollers
• capture and analyze power traces to extract AES keys
• research hardware security vulnerabilities on custom target boards
• learn hardware hacking with jupyter notebook tutorials
• reverse engineer firmware behavior via power consumption

When to choose

• you need an open-source toolchain for side-channel analysis or fault injection
• you want schematics, firmware, and software all freely available for hardware security research
• you are teaching or learning embedded hardware security with a Python API

When to avoid

• you only need pure software penetration testing without hardware capture
• you require a turnkey commercial solution with vendor support and no hardware assembly
• your target is not accessible for power measurement or clock glitching

Facets

library · maturity active

security penetration-testing machine-learning data-science developer-tools security hardware embedded-systems penetration-testing reverse-engineering python cross-platform cli side-channel-analysis power-analysis glitching hardware-security fpga embedded-security fault-injection

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