Increasing the security of iMX platforms - JTAG fusing
Published at December 14, 2021 · Michał Kotyla · 9 min read
JTAG helps a lot of engineers during product development. It also may be helpful for adversaries. We tell you why and how to increase JTAG security in your product...
Categories: manufacturing security
Application Security as an Every Developer's Responsibility
Published at November 13, 2020 · Piotr Nowosławski · 7 min read
The issue of web application security is becoming more and more popular. Currently, not only large organizations and corporations but also smaller businesses are forced by progress to transfer some of their activities to the Internet....
Categories: app-dev development security
Tools and ideas that keep us behind the wheel while working remotely.
Published at April 28, 2020 · Kamila Banecka · 4 min read
Remote working has different game rules than office. In this post I will present you how our team deals with the current situation and what tools help us to manage effectively....
Categories: miscellaneous
Published at May 8, 2019 · Łukasz Wcisło · 4 min read
RTE used to control tested devices could be used as a programmer. But RTE doesn't have SWD interface, which is crucial. We tried to walk around this using Bit Banging method....
Categories: firmware manufacturing miscellaneous
OpenOCD and development environment for Zephyr on NXP FRDM-K64F
Published at March 18, 2017 · Piotr Król · 12 min read
In this post I would like to describe process of setting up NXP FRDM-K64F development environment under Linux and start Zephyr development using it. Why NXP FRDM-K64F ? I choose this platform mostly because of ready to use guide about using 802.15.4 communication by attaching TI CC2520, which was presented here. Typical wireless stack starts with 802.15.4, then 6LoWPAN adaptation and then IPv6, which carries application protocols. 6LoWPAN compress IPv6 so it can fit BLE and 802....
nRF51822 programming with OpenOCD under Linux
Published at January 22, 2017 · Kamil Wcisło · 8 min read
Some time ago we bought BLE400 from Waveshare as probably one of the cheapest option to enter nRF51822 market. As our readers know, we prefer to use the Linux environment for embedded systems development. Because of that, we’re following the guide for using Waveshare nRF51822 Eval Kit: icarus-sensors. Kudos due to great post that helped us enter nRF51822 and mbed OS land under Linux. BLE400 is pretty cheap, because it hasn’t got integrated debugger/programmer....
0x2: Toolchain for Virtual Development Board
Published at June 7, 2013 · Piotr Król · 4 min read
Introduction This is probably the most complicated topic of all related to embedded development but we need to deal with it at the beginning. I read a lot about toolchains but still don’t know enough to explain details. I think that best answers are in crosstool-ng documentation. What is toolchain ? Toolchain as the name said is a set of tools chained together, so output of one tool is the input for different tool....
Yet another quick build of arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
Published at April 3, 2013 · Piotr Król · 3 min read
So I decide to check what is going on with crosstool-ng and refresh my old post about building arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi toolchain. Last post was pretty popular, so definitely this is direction I should follow :). I will not repeat myself, so if you encounter any problems please check last post, section with known problems in crosstool-ng doc/ directory or RTFM. Let’s begin: Get the latest crosstool-ng As usual I’m trying to use latest version possible....
Tmux multiplexer and vi-like keys in copy-mode
Published at March 19, 2013 · Piotr Król · 1 min read
So I tried to write second post for my new blog but to effectively work using terminal I need terminal multiplexer. I switched to tmux from screen because I reach point that I can’t do some things in it in easy way and performance was poor. Also activity of tmux developers is better than for gnu screen. I also experienced annoy buffer crashing especially after come back from lock mode or cmatrix much but after reading few articles about alternative for screen I switched to tmux....
Categories: miscellaneous
Short hint for all those who use vim and pathogen
Published at January 15, 2013 · Piotr Król · 1 min read
Today, after updating my workspace to latest version I encounter below error during vim running. Error detected while processing function pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles: line 1: E121, E116. Quick look on pathogen runtime_append_all_bundles function and I found...
Categories: miscellaneous
Building ARM toolchain? part 2: gcc and eglibc
Published at April 12, 2012 · Piotr Król · 4 min read
Unfortunately after few tries of cross compiling eglibc using different source for instructions I always end with hard to solve issues. Luckily, in the sources of eglibc I noticed instructions for cross-compiling written long time ago by Jim Blandy(I know i should start here). Lot of thanks to him for it. Below I describe my experience which I gained during eglibc cross compilation for arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi and procedure that I used. Commands below contain some constants that I used in previous works....
Building ARM toolchain - part 1: libs and binutils
Published at March 20, 2012 · Piotr Król · 3 min read
Searching the Internet for information on how to build arm toolchain from scratch I realize that it is very hard to find information about this matter (and recent one even harder). I will try to fill this lack of information and try to build toolchain. My main goal is to use a component based on the GNU public license, and using them in as the newest version as it is possible....
Quick build of arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi with crosstool-ng
Published at March 14, 2012 · Piotr Król · 2 min read
You might be surprised at how much you have to make to correctly build arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi config based toolchain with crosstool-ng. As you can see examples of many open source projects, the man’s work is a rare resource. The result of this economic fact is that the attempt to build configuration arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi is not a simple task and during an operation you can come across many problems. Although I am not afraid of problems and effectively try to fight them and of course sharing the results of my work....
Tmux as screen replacement and productivity accelerator
Published at January 6, 2012 · Piotr Król · 5 min read
As I wrote in previous post I switched from GNU screen to tmux. I use it for a few moths and have to said that I’m really impressed by simplicity, performance and community support in this project. In this post I want to discuss my configuration and useful additions for it like tmuxinator, session logging, colors or status bar configuration. Basics Debian contain tmux package but for stable and testing release it is pretty old version....
Categories: miscellaneous
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