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Jack of many trades, master of none. Hobbyist, some previous education in digital logic but otherwise no formal electronics education. Reverse engineer and security professional by trade.

Good working knowledge of 12F and 18F PIC micros using XC8 and assembly. Limited knowledge of ARM and MSP430.

Beginner level knowledge of Lattice CPLDs and Xilinx FPGAs.

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How do electronic devices keep track of time without power?
Oct 2, 2015
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How to cut the tracks of a stripboard
Dec 26, 2013
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How do you determine how much flash/RAM you need for a microcontroller?
Nov 25, 2014
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What's the point of DMA in embedded CPU's?
Jun 14, 2016
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Transceivers in the field of FPGAs: When and why will we use them?
Oct 7, 2014
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How can a CPU deliver more than one instruction per cycle?
Aug 2, 2014
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How to create "wireless" networks in Eagle Cad
Mar 29, 2014
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Global variable in AVR interrupt routine
May 2, 2014
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PIC18F2550 Loop Counter Overwritten by sprintf
Sep 28, 2014
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Is it possible to attach leads to surface mount component?
Mar 22, 2014

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Am I really receiving FT8 signals from 12,000 km away on 144 MHz?
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Identifying signals in the satellite exclusive band
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ATA Secure Erase is too fast
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How should I investigate a memory leak when using Google Cloud Datastore Python libraries?
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Creating subkeys for an existing OpenPGP key