Silicon Exposed

I was recently asked by an online acquaintance to review his BGA soldering process and make suggestions to improve yield. The test board w...

I finally got an IC decapsulation setup up and running in my new lab. Been a while but I'm back in business :) Now that I have a prope...

This is a follow-up to my post from yesterday. I've made major progress and, if I knew things would go this fast, wouldn't have writ...

Despite most of my posts lately having been on hardware topics, my PhD work (as well as my undergraduate degree) is in computer science. As ...

My roommate Rob has a Unimat multipurpose machine tool which had been sitting around for a long time not being used for anything since we a...

I'm back...  it's been a while since my last post so I figured I'd write something. I spent most of the summer working on my PhD...

I've been added as a contributing author to CMOSfold , the "weekly centerfold" of nude semiconductors run by my friend and col...