Episodes
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Security on CAN bus with Ken Tindell
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
In this episode, we will learn so much about embedded CAN bus, for automobile security and performance straight from the water host, Ken Tindell the CTO of Canis Labs.
A lot of interesting facts about cyber security and automobile hacking that you would not want to miss! Watch through the end and make sure to check the additional resources below.
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Show Highlights:
- Ken Tindell’s background and how he got started with CAN bus and CAN security
- Ken worked with Motorola on designing the MS CAN—the first CAN controller that did all the buffer scheduling correctly
- Ethernet and CAN coexist in autonomous vehicles’ architecture, Ken explains how
- There are two types of major attacks on the CAN bus: attacking the physical wiring and attacking the computer that has access to the wiring. Zac and Ken talk about the mind-blowing advanced techniques of hacking automobiles
- Story of irony. A friend of Ken in automobile cybersecurity had his car stolen
- The biggest car-hacking horror would be through the cloud — cloud-based APIs to phone and at the same time CAN bus protocol hacking on the transceiver pins
- CAN HD, an augmentation for high speed and guarding the CAN bus
- Canis Labs is in the works to provide real solutions for security on CAN bus
Links and Resources:
- Connect with Ken Tindell on LinkedIn
- Visit Canis Automotive Labs' website
- Check out Ken’s Github Page
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Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Better Performance and Enhanced Reliability in the Automotive Electronics industry
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Performance and reliability are big in the automotive industry, especially now that electronically powered and automated vehicles are starting to become more popular.
In this episode, we will learn so much about automotive electronics and the reliability of electronics systems that goes in the vehicle. Our guest Lenora Clark, the director of autonomous driving and safety technology at ESI automotive will share with us the importance of material choices for your PCB can affect the reliability and performance of your vehicle’s system design.
Show Highlights:
- Lenora is Chemist by education. She joined MacDermid, now MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions, as a bench top chemist, developing chemicals for PCB manufacturers
- Her focus was on surface finishing helping PCB fabricator improve their process from a chemical standpoint to enhance the performance and reliability of PCBs
- From working with surface finishing, she worked her way up and became the project manager, product line director for surface finishing, and later the Director of OEMs
- She is now a director at ESI automotive
- Chips don’t float, they are anchored to a PCB to work
- Lenora briefly described her role and emphasis on enhanced reliability to meet the end users' needs
- There is so much happening in the automotive space towards reinventing themselves and keeping up with the amount of innovation that's happening right now
- One of the challenges in the industry is extreme miniaturization
- Miniaturization is not just the board itself and the packaging but also feature density
- Other than the heat, electromagnetic shielding is also a concern with enclosure designs
- Lenora emphasizes that her current role is to make recommendations based on a material perspective, both for liability and for enhanced function
- ECUs (Electronic control unit) manages data transmission between different parts of the vehicle
- Lenora is Chemist by education. She joined MacDermid, now MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions, as a bench top chemist, developing chemicals for PCB manufacturers
- I think the future of the vehicle architecture is not completely defined yet. I do think it will be less complex than what we see today - Lenora Clark
- Collaborators like Mobileeye by Intel are working with makers to bring an entire system where there are different, sensors and a central computing unit to help make the decision – autonomous driving
Links and Resources:
Connect with Lenora Clark on LinkedIn
Visit ESI Auto website
Related Podcast Episode:
How to Select the Best Surface Finish for your PCB
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