# newaetech/chipwhisperer

ChipWhisperer - the complete open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks

Repository: https://github.com/newaetech/chipwhisperer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chipwhisperer
Homepage: http://chipwhisperer.com
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: security, side-channel, chipwhisperer
Last push: 2026-08-25T19:21:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4385, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 525, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 26}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1557, forks 369 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:03.360491+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: security, penetration-testing, machine-learning, data-science, developer-tools
- domain: security, hardware, embedded-systems, penetration-testing, reverse-engineering
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: side-channel-analysis, power-analysis, glitching, hardware-security, fpga, embedded-security, fault-injection

## Member repositories
- newaetech/chipwhisperer (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.360491+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:29:57.704953+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/newaetech/chipwhisperer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.360491+00:00, sha efca3cfd75be)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.