#693 – Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O’Flynn

Welcome back Dr Colin O’Flynn of Dalhousie University and New AE tech!

• Colin has been on the show twice before
  
  
  
  • Episode 239 in 2015
  
  
  • Episode 552 in 2021
  
  
  
  


• 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!