Posted: February 5, 2013 Building off the momentum of an international product launch in New York that featured not only a corporate rebranding and the naming of a Grammy-award winning artist as their new global creative director, one had to wade through a lot of flash and sizzle to get down to what

Posted: February 4, 2013 Nintendo Wii U Looking at the Wii U Graphics Processor Yes, even reverse engineering the latest technology has its up and down days. At the start of the reverse engineering process, we generally have a simple electronics teardown before we can get to the more traditional

Posted: January 22, 2013 GoPro Hero3 GoPro Hero3 The Hero3 fills a profitable niche in a crowded imaging market where other devices, such as digital still cameras and video cameras, are losing market share. I think we would be safe to assume that the average enthusiast doesn't want to strap their

Posted: January 8, 2013 Nikon D5200 DSLR At CES 2013 Nikon announced the US availability of a new premium-level consumer DSLR camera, the D5200. When compared to the high level of integration on a single board that one finds in a typical smart phone a DSLR is a complex system of individual parts. If

contributed by Dr. Sinjin Dixon-Warren TSMC’s 28 nm CMOS technology platform is currently their most advanced offering. Our analysis suggests that this will be a very profitable technology platform for TSMC and for their fabless design partners for many years to come. In fact, Chairman Morris Chang

Posted: December 5, 2012 Systems analysis identifies how devices are used together – and may include testing of signals and software inside or between chips using sniffers, probing, data capture, or literature. Systems analysis, including software reverse engineering, is performed to identify

Posted: November 1, 2012 Apple iPad Mini Teardown Since its introduction of the iPad nearly two and a half years ago, Apple has held onto the lion’s share of the tablet market. Particularly, Apple has managed to hold off all competitors that dared to mimic the 9.7-inch or 10.1-inch platform made

Posted: October 18, 2012 Apple Lightning to 30 Pin Adapter Reverse engineering is not forward engineering done backwards and so you never know what you will learn or when you will learn it. Enter the Apple Lightning Adapter plug. Deserving of some analysis since we are undertaking a full systems

Posted: October 15, 2012 We couldn’t help but notice that there is a lot of speculation and discussion (and frankly, a few wild guesses) concerning the functions of the Apple’s new lightning connectors. We don’t normally give (a total of five blogs!) this much attention to a single electronics

Posted: September 21, 2012 Apple is considered by many to be the leader of the smartphone market. Within 5 years, Apple has generated over $150 billion in revenue from the iPhone family of handsets and accessories (according to research firm Strategy Analytics) and over 100 million units of the

Posted: October 14, 2011 Apple iPhone 4s Since the June 24th release of the iPhone 4, Apple’s dedicated fans have eagerly anticipated the next iteration of the immensely popular iPhone series of handsets. As rumors, leaked images of parts, and speculation spread across the internet, Apple finally

Posted: June 24, 2010 On June 23rd, we were one of the lucky ones to actually have our iPhone delivered to us before the actual release date of June 24th. We went to work quickly dissecting the latest handset from Apple, and what we found was both interesting and surprising at the same time. What