The Danger Zone

Here’s a couple of pics of the board, I’ve gone with an OSP finish instead of HASL, probably gonna be better for BGA soldering, but @ a cost...

Shall let the pictures do the talking, working on getting USB functionality right on the board (no need for the platform cable), as well as ...

100Mhash/s on the test board at this point, I’ve made a few improvements to the board to get it reach this point. Namely a small heatsink+f...

Not anywhere close to pushing the max limit of the Spartan-6 FPGAs, but here it is, pushing out some real data. It’s now 6am here, I need ...

Still getting used to Xilinx’s ISE. Inching forward a step at a time.

As above, pictures below, those 0402 decoupling capacitors were kinda hard to get in place. A good magnifying glass really speeds things up....

I shall let the pictures do the talking. PCB cart packed the boards relatively well, they were vacuum sealed with some desiccant inside, t...

  Finally completed laying out and ordering part for my upcoming project. I’ll release more details about what it is later, should be excit...

Just a sneak peek at what I’m up to lately. Can’t reveal too much information just yet. Will do so in a later update.

Currently developing a power supply solution for the Xilinx Spartan 6 LX150 FPGA, and I stumbled across this cool modules from National. Th...

Came home one day to find my modem’s lights were all out. Abit of probing with a multimeter found the adapter to be dead. Thinking that it w...

  I needed some way to suck small SMD parts up without having to buy a $$$ vacuum station. Already had a cheapie $2.50 pickup tool (with a ...

  Recently upgraded my RAID0 array from 4x500GBs to 2x2TBs for more capacity. Then I ran into problems. MBR partition tables won't le...

  Had an Acer from my aunt come in for repair the other day, it had bleeding graphics issues and couldn’t boot into windows (or at least yo...

Pioneer DV-500 that wasn’t powering up arrived on my bench one morning. Managed to diagnose it down to the SMPSU being dead. Forgot that I’d...

The Xclamp is Microsoft’s weird heatsink retention mechanism that puts undue stress on the Xbox’s motherboard, leading to warpage and then f...