An introduction to automotive ECU research

Presented at TROOPERS17 (2017), March 21, 2017, 10:30 a.m. (Unknown duration).

This talk gives an introduction to automotive Electronic Control Unit (ECU) research. It includes an overview of typical ECUs in a car, bus systems and the type of microcontrollers used in those ECUs. Some examples of what kind of hardware and software systems one encounters in current car ECUs are presented. The focus is on ECUs found in German car brands. This talk highlights some differences of automotive systems compared to typical embedded systems of the IT industry and gives some hints how to start researching automotive ECUs.

Presenters:

• Dieter Spaar
  Dieter Spaar is a software developer and security researcher from Germany. He has many years of experience in software and hardware reverse-engineering. Since 2008 he is involved in the OpenBSC and OsmocomBB projects and started to focus on the security of mobile communication. In the last few years he spent a lot of time researching various automotive ECUs.

Links:

• https://troopers.de/troopers17/ngi/talks/810-an-introduction-to-automotive-ecu-research/
• https://infocon.org/cons/TROOPERS/TROOPERS 2017/An Introduction to Automotive ECU Research Dieter Spaar.mp4

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