Silicon Exposed

Most of the time people making PCB simply design the board exactly as they want it to look, send it off to the fab, and trust that they'...

Since I've already developed a reliable process for reflowing 0402 surface mount components, as well as 1mm pitch BGA, the next logical ...

In research and industry, spraying with compressed gas (usually dry nitrogen) is the standard way to remove liquid from a specimen after sol...

(NOTE: This was originally scheduled to happen a lot earlier but the fab screwed up shipping on the boards. I only got them today.) A whil...

Earlier this week I decided it was about time to try making a board for some of the 24AA16 EEPROMs I had sampled from Microchip a year ago. ...

Figured it's about time I posted an update since I haven't had time to write for a while, I just started the PhD program and my work...

My preferred method for delayering chips is wet etching in dilute hydrofluoric acid (HF), commonly available in grocery stores as Whink bran...