Tag: making
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Driver Signing Notes
I recently wanted to sign some drivers to avoid requiring users of my ChipWhisperer device to do the usual bypass-signature deal. The end result is a sweet sweet screen like this when install the drivers: If you are in this situation, I wanted to add some of my own notes into the mix. David Grayson…
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SMD Solder Paste Stencil Creation with Silhouette Cameo
I made some additional details in a long YouTube movie: This is far from the first blog post on this, but I wanted to write down exactly what I did to get this working on Windows 7, 64-bit with as little fussing as possible. 1. Buy Silhouette Cameo [NOTE: The v1 I used is no…
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Making a Simple Scope Probe Holder
Interested in a low-cost method of holding a scope probe securely against your PCB board? For this to work you’ll need a scope probe with a spring-loaded tip. I came up with this idea since the PS6000 series scope I was using from PicoScope comes with such probes. The end result looks like this:
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Bed of Nails Test Bed
This is the final product, it can hold a PCB for testing without needing to have soldered any pins to it: And without the PCB mounted: I got parts from ebay seller “pingf123”. Parts used were: “4 Edge Latches for Phototype Test Fixture PCB ICT” “20 Chisel Spring Loaded Pogo Pin” “spring loaded guide pin…
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JCOP
I recently bought some Smart Cards from [[http://www.smartcardsource.com/contents/en-ca/d9_JCOP-NXP-cards.html and has some comments/issues getting them up and running. They were NXP JCOP Cards, J2A040. Round 1: GP Shell and Card Personalization I was using GPShell for my initial tests, you can download from [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/globalplatform/files/|Here. There is a good [[http://sourceforge.net/p/globalplatform/wiki/Home/|Wiki too. The first test was attempting to…
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Design a FIR Filter in an FPGA in 30 mins using High Level Synthesis
I’ve been working with Xilinx’s new High Level Synthesis tools built into Vivado. I’m slowly working on posting some more complete tutorials. In the mean-time here is a simple tutorial about making a Finite Impulse Response Filter on a real ADC/DAC board .