Let's have a Board Level Talk

Summary

This talk provides an introduction and survey of existing and future boards used to interface and reverse engineer electronic equipment. These are boards that allow your computer to interface to the protocols used in embedded computers, such as UART, I2C, SPI and JTAG, and SWD.

If you want to know more about these boards, what they can do, and how to use them, this is a good introduction. There are over 20 products and designs, such as the BusPirate, Facedancer, GreatFet, JTAGulator, Shikra, Focaccia, Shukran, the Black Magic Probe, etc. In addition, developers are working on the next generation, such as the Luna, BusPirate Ultra, Glasgow, and Edinburgh boards. If you don't know what to buy, or the advantages and disadvantages of each, this talk will help clear things up.

Speaker

Bruce Barnett

• https://twitter.com/grymoire?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor - Twitter account
• https://www.grymoire.com/ - Website
• https://twitter.com/i/lists/1287469250458931201 List of twitter accounts I follow

Archive

• https://github.com/anyconhhv/Talks/blob/master/Board%20Level%20Talk.pdf - Slides
• https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200727_2300_Lets_Have_a_Board_Level_Talk.mp4 - Video

Devices

Serial Interfaces

• USB-UART Cable
• FTDI Friend
• DSD-TECH

AVR Programmers

• USBTinyISP
• USB µISP

Multiprotocol tools

• BusPirate
• Bus Blaster V4
• TUMPA
• Expliot-NANO
• Shikra
• Flyswatter2
• Adafruit FT232H
• FT232H CJMCU
  • Focaccia Board
  • Shukran

Specialized Boards

• JTagulator
• Excamera
  • [https://i2cdriver.com/ I2CDriver[
  • SPIDriver
• HydraBus
• Black Magic Probe
  • JEFF Probe
  • Bumpy
• GreatFET
• Burtleina Board

Future Boards

• Luna
• Bus Pirate Ultra
• Glasgow

Resources

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W5_eccqXJ7BZooCRzcy3Q VOIDING WARRANTIES with @jilles_com

Start with #0 - Finding uart data pins on WRT54G

• https://github.com/unprovable/PentestHardware/blob/master/DRAFT.pdf

Mark Carney’s book on PenTesting hardware

• https://github.com/fkie-cad/awesome-embedded-and-iot-security

Curated list of hacking resources

• - Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast