Silicon Exposed

Working as an embedded systems pentester is a lot of fun, but it comes with some annoying problems. There's so many tools that I can nev...

I've written a couple of posts in the past few months but they were all for the blog at work so I figured I'm long overdue for one ...

A few months ago, I wrote about a project I had been thinking of for a while but not had time to work on: a time-domain reflectometer (TDR...

As I mentioned in my last post, powering all of the prototyping boards on my desk presents some unique challenges. With only one exception (...

All of the JTAG utilities I've been mentioning are quite handy if you need to load a bitstream onto a board from one of several workstat...

As I mentioned in my previous post, libjtaghal supports a socket-based protocol for communicating with JTAG adapters. This allows some very ...

Almost all of my embedded development and debugging makes heavy use of JTAG, both for loading new bitstreams/firmware images and for interac...

Earlier today I was working on one of my softcore CPUs and checked the resource usage stats. It turned out that my signed/unsigned 32x32 bit...

Introduction This is the second post in a series on the SoC framework I'm developing for my research. I'm going to get into more i...

Those of you who have read my older posts may remember that I am currently pursuing a PhD in computer science at RPI. My research focus is t...