Hardware Podcasts

029 - Old Timey Name Droppin'

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 17 Oct 2019 · 1h 41m

What this episode covers

Philip Freidin, a veteran engineer and consultant with experience at AMD and Xilinx, discusses the evolution of the semiconductor industry, the challenges of reverse engineering FPGAs, and his current projects. He explains why reverse engineering an FPGA bitstream is often futile compared to functional analysis, detailing the complexity of VLIW architectures and encryption. Freidin also shares his experience creating the open-source OshChip and his new educational initiative, DSP-for-KIDS.

Most relevant to

large enterprises and makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
AMD, Xilinx, Altera, Fliptronics, Hackaday, Nordic Semiconductor, Honeywell, Microchip
Products
OshChip, DSP-for-KIDS, HP 85
Chips
nRF51822, AMD 29000
Tools
Tektronix

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