Silicon Exposed

Back in 2010 when I was first getting into IC RE, John and myself decapped a huge number of chips which have sat around in gel trays in my l...

As I mentioned in my previous post, libjtaghal supports a socket-based protocol for communicating with JTAG adapters. This allows some very ...

Note: I originally wrote this in a Facebook note in March 2012, long before any of the recent leaks . I figured it'd be of interest t...

Almost all of my embedded development and debugging makes heavy use of JTAG, both for loading new bitstreams/firmware images and for interac...

Earlier today I was working on one of my softcore CPUs and checked the resource usage stats. It turned out that my signed/unsigned 32x32 bit...

One of the little things in board design that a lot of hobbyists neglect (although the practice is fairly widespread in industry) is traceab...

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