#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!