The Amp Hour
Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin O'Flynn
May 13, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min · Episode 693 · 124.5 MB
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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!
Episode 239 in 2015
theamphour.comEpisode 552 in 2021
theamphour.comJTAGulator
grandideastudio.comRPi episode (RP2350)
theamphour.comOpenTitan
opentitan.orgRoot of Trust
cpl.thalesgroup.comEpisode with Laura Abbott from Oxide
theamphour.comARM PSA
arm.comLowrisc Sonata System
lowrisc.github.ioCHERI / CHERIot
riscv.orgAirtag teardown
colinoflynn.comESP32 HCI supposed vulnerability (and response)
developer.espressif.comSign up to learn more about the book when its available
smallscaleelectronics.comCheck out Colin's blog for more info!
colinoflynn.com