TrenchBoot AEM gains support for UEFI installations
Published at June 10, 2025 · Krystian Hebel · 13 min read
A feature craved by many is finally here. AEM can now be used with Qubes OS installed under UEFI. Oh, and some automated testing. But mostly UEFI....
Categories: bootloader firmware hypervisor os-dev security
Conclusions from RAM data remanence tests
Published at February 20, 2025 · Maciej Pijanowski · Krystian Hebel · 3 min read
A practical summary from the two previous blog posts presenting results of RAM data remanence tests....
Categories: firmware miscellaneous
Research of RAM data remanence times, part 2
Published at January 24, 2025 · Krystian Hebel · 16 min read
Continuing from where we left off, we've run the same tests on different hardware, both platforms and memory modules. This blog post skips all the theory and description of how the measurements were obtained, please read the previous one if you're interested in these details....
Categories: miscellaneous
Research of RAM data remanence times
Published at December 13, 2024 · Krystian Hebel · 14 min read
Dynamic RAM must be periodically refreshed to maintain its content. JEDEC specifies how often this has to be done to ensure proper operation. In this post, we will see for how long the data can be recovered if it isn't....
Categories: miscellaneous
Published at January 31, 2024 · Krystian Hebel · 7 min read
This post shows how we tested simple commands on TwPM, which is our attempt at making TPM more open....
Hardware setup for testing Qubes OS via openQA
Published at December 22, 2023 · Sergii Dmytruk · 25 min read
How Qubes OS installation and usage can be automatically tested on hardware with open-source software and firmware....
Categories: miscellaneous os-dev
ASUS KGPE-D16 Dasharo testing update
Published at March 23, 2022 · Michał Żygowski · 3 min read
This blog post describes the updates in the validation process of Dasharo for ASUS KGPE-D16. You will read about new tests and newly detected issues....
Categories: firmware
Published at February 18, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Kamila Banecka · 5 min read
Pros and cons of automated testing and the process of performing transparent validation....
Containerization of the test environment for embedded systems
Published at December 17, 2020 · Mateusz Grzelak · 9 min read
Using Docker makes life much easier for developers. It allows us to build lightweight and portable software containers that simplify application development. In this article, we present the advantages of using Docker for embedded testing...
Categories: firmware
Latency - The most crucial aspect of real-time systems.
Published at September 30, 2020 · Jakub Łęcki · 4 min read
What in reality is RT system? This post will explain what to expect from Real-Time systems and how can we test performance in this kind of builds....
Minnowboard Turbot remote firmware flashing with RTE (Remote Testing Environment)
Published at March 23, 2018 · Arkadiusz Cichocki · 7 min read
Minnowboard Turbot remote firmware flashing with RTE (Remote Testing Environment) Introduction Work related to a hardware carries some restrictions which don’t occur when working only with a software. One of them is a limited number of devices. This one may cause a problem with a accessibility to the platform. The limited number of users could slow development and testing. What is more work with a hardware requires a minimal knowledge of the theory of circuits and signals to eliminate platform damage by a user....
Categories: firmware
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