#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn
Colin O'Flynn returns to The Amp Hour for a 3rd time to talk about recent developments in security, FPGAs, small scale electronics manufacturing, and the world of academia.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
May 13, 20251h 18m
Show Notes
Welcome back Dr Colin O’Flynn of Dalhousie University and New AE tech!
- Colin has been on the show twice before
- Colin continues to publish/do research around side channel attacks
- Now he’s targeting different ports / Jitter measurements
- JTAGulator
- RF Mixer
- Side channel with power
- Can you fix it on a chip?
- Targeting an SD Card port because there’s a clock
- Other clocked things like displays / RF
- State of hardware security
- RPi episode (RP2350)
- OpenTitan
- Root of Trust
- Episode with Laura Abbott from Oxide
- Open vs closed about security
- Guidelines for what to care about like in the ARM PSA
- UK gov’t
- Lowrisc Sonata System
- CHERI / CHERIot
- Secure / non-secure
- Artix 7 FPGA
- Mouser bonded area
- Pick and place experiments
- Charm High / Neoden
- Failing on fast turn
- Person running production
- Recovering from Covid shortages
- Airtag teardown
- ESP32 HCI supposed vulnerability (and response)
- Colin is writing a book about small scale production
- Sign up to learn more about the book when its available!
- Students “Kids these days”
- ChatGPT in the classroom
- Check out Colin’s blog for more info!