Silicon Exposed

I've written a couple of posts in the past few months but they were all for the blog at work so I figured I'm long overdue for one ...

Hi everyone, I've been busy lately and haven't had a chance to post much. There will be a pretty good sized series coming up in a ...

So, it's been a busy couple of months and I haven't had time to post anything. Here's a few quick updates: I successfully defe...

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...