Silicon Exposed

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...

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...

Hello readers, and welcome to my virtual laboratory! I am an undergraduate computer science student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (b...