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US Government playing Football with Semiconductor Market?

Glenn Woppman

October 20, 2022
6:06 pm

As most of us know, football season began across America last month, with both college and the NFL seasons starting. With the recent moves by our Federal Government, it seems they have a bit of a football game strategy when it comes to the semiconductor market segment.

Everything You Need to Know About ScanWorks Interconnect Part 2: The Boundary Scan Architecture

Michael Johnson

October 6, 2022
3:45 pm

What is the meaning of the word “interconnect”? As the word is applied in the field of electronics, interconnect, as defined at Techopedia.com, defines the word as follows. “An interconnect (generally speaking) is a physical or logical connection between two electronic devices or networks.” Printed circuit boards (PCB) consisting of hundreds, sometimes, thousands, of interconnected integrated circuits (IC) and other active and passive devices are essential in today’s electronic world.

Everything You Need to Know About ScanWorks Interconnect Part 1: The Origins of Boundary Scan

Michael Johnson

September 7, 2022
4:05 pm

To tell the story of Interconnect, we must go back in time to the printed circuit board (PCB) test industry prior to the year 1990. At that time, electronics manufacturers relied upon a hands-on approach to test PCBs for structural integrity.

Semiconductor Test: What opportunities are created by passing the CHIPS bill?

Glenn Woppman

August 29, 2022
1:17 pm

The CHIPS Act as a byproduct will create a fantastic opportunity for high-paying semiconductor test, design-for-test and validation engineering jobs for America.

What are Chipkits?

Alan Sguigna

August 22, 2022
8:12 am

Cyber attackers use Rootkits to implant malware using Operating System internals. Bootkits are for more persistent implants, targeted toward UEFI firmware vulnerabilities. But, what if you go lower down, into the silicon? This is a Chipkit.

New Features in SourcePoint 7.12.22

Alan Sguigna

August 14, 2022
4:42 pm

Our new SourcePoint Intel release, 7.12.22, is now in production and available to all subscribers. Our most polished, fully-featured release yet, it adds the following features:

Hypervisor and OS Kernel Debug with DCI on the AAEON Whiskey Lake board

Alan Sguigna

July 17, 2022
7:09 pm

DCI debug of UEFI and hypervisor technologies with full source code.

Advanced Breakpoints for AMD Debug

Alan Sguigna

July 1, 2022
5:56 pm

It’s probably not well-known, but AMD platforms have special low-level breakpoint capabilities that aren’t available on Intel platforms. They are extremely powerful; here’s how to use them.

JTAG Debug using DCI on the AAEON UP Xtreme Whiskey Lake board

Alan Sguigna

March 27, 2022
12:13 pm

If you want to learn about UEFI, you have to be able to see the source code and debug it. Here’s how to build a debug Tianocore image on the AAEON UP Xtreme Whiskey Lake board, flash it onto the target, and use SourcePoint to debug it with Intel Direct Connect Interface (DCI).

Using JTAG for Hypervisor Debug: Part 3

Alan Sguigna

February 21, 2022
5:34 pm

Using a JTAG-based debugger to do Type 1 UEFI hypervisor debug.

US Government playing Football with Semiconductor Market?

Everything You Need to Know About ScanWorks Interconnect Part 2: The Boundary Scan Architecture

Everything You Need to Know About ScanWorks Interconnect Part 1: The Origins of Boundary Scan

Semiconductor Test: What opportunities are created by passing the CHIPS bill?

What are Chipkits?

New Features in SourcePoint 7.12.22

Hypervisor and OS Kernel Debug with DCI on the AAEON Whiskey Lake board

Advanced Breakpoints for AMD Debug

JTAG Debug using DCI on the AAEON UP Xtreme Whiskey Lake board

Using JTAG for Hypervisor Debug: Part 3

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