Silicon Exposed

This post is a bit different from my usual ones in that it discusses the business side of the semiconductor industry, not the technical side...

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...

While my optical microscopes are capable of sufficient resolution for imaging larger-process ICs, taking massive die images ( this one , fo...

Although the "raised floor" design for my FPGA cluster looked cool, it really didn't scale. My entire desk was full, there wa...

For a long time, my microscopes have lived on a folding plastic table in the corner of my lab. It was wobbling and causing blurry images, b...

A few months ago, I wrote about some of my pending projects . Several of them are actively running, some are done, and a few new ones croppe...

Recent news headlines have made a big deal of Apple encrypting more of the storage on their handsets, and claiming to not have a key. Depend...