Silicon Exposed

Those of you keeping an eye on the MIPS microcontroller world have probably heard of Microchip's PIC32 series parts: MIPS32 CPU cores li...

Laser decapsulation is commonly used by professional shops to rapidly remove material before finishing with a chemical etch. Upon finding o...

I'm going to kick off the meat of this blog with a teardown of a chip that has a special place in my memories - the first microcontrolle...