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<kristianpaul> azonenberg: awesome !!
<azonenberg> kristianpaul: awesome about what?
<kristianpaul> yup :)
<azonenberg> thx :)
<azonenberg> Next step, once the board comes back from the fab (ordered last week) is testing an FTG256 part
<azonenberg> if thats successful i can move forward with my laptop design
<azonenberg> Fab is currently on hold until i have a bit more $$, there are two main focuses
<azonenberg> the first is improving lithography by getting a commercially made mask
<azonenberg> the second is buying a furnace for thermal oxidation and dopant diffusion
<kristianpaul> btw will be nice have mor info about how to get center the chip
<azonenberg> I basically stuck it down and jiggled under the microscope
<azonenberg> Figuring out how to improve yields is something i am thinking about
<kristianpaul> i friend of mine tried you owen aprouch with an avr32 chip and give up after the 5 atempt
<kristianpaul> but 3 is not bad i think :)
<azonenberg> One possibility is to draw an X in the silkscreen and line up the corners
<kristianpaul> ah yes
<azonenberg> another is to have crosshairs of some sort
<kristianpaul> draw^
<azonenberg> And what was the pitch on the avr32?
<kristianpaul> dont remenber now, similiar to spartan-6 i remenber
<azonenberg> thats a huge difference
<azonenberg> s6 comes in packages ranging form 0.5 to 1mm
<kristianpaul> i know ;)
<azonenberg> 0.5, 0.8, 1.0 i think
<azonenberg> PIC32s are mostly TQFP and QFN
<azonenberg> the one BGA package is 0.8
<azonenberg> which is too fine for my fab's design rules in a full-array package (i cant fit vias between the balls)
<azonenberg> But 1mm i can
<azonenberg> In any case, i will be actively pursuing such things for a while because i have several designs in the pipe that need BGAs
<azonenberg> and i'll be trying to write more on the blog
<azonenberg> it was originally just reverse engineering but is now basically anything that pushes the limits of hobbyist electronics
<kristianpaul> pushes, yeah !
<azonenberg> lol
<azonenberg> you know me that well, lol... i love breaking down barriers and pushing boundaries
<azonenberg> especially if people say something cant be done
<kristianpaul> i just pinged a guy said i cant be done
<kristianpaul> from osmo-sdr
<kristianpaul> ther is a way to electrically test align before rework?
<kristianpaul> array will be nice to see ;)
<Helldesk> http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=111109-ee380-300.asx Stanford memristor lecture, manufacturing methods around the hour mark
<Helldesk> downloadable copy: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=41TSSZUM
<Helldesk> pretty cool stuff, memristor effect starts to dominate more as the structure shrinks to the nano scale, and the effect has been seen for a long time, it just wasn't understood that it was memristance
<Helldesk> and you can potentially replace an equivalent circuit of a dozen transistors with just one memristor
<Helldesk> and they haven't reached its switching speed limit yet
<Helldesk> oh wow, they are immune to ionizing radiation
<Helldesk> non-volatile data storage and immensely fast computation
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