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Welcome to the blog of Dr. Ken Tindell, CTO of Canis Automotive Labs. This blog is focused on the work Canis is doing on CAN bus and CAN security, but also covers the design of embedded software and hardware for automotive systems and the Yes We Can project at Canis that develops hardware, software and tools for CAN bus: the CANHack toolkit for injecting faults into the CAN protocol, CANPico and CANHack hardware boards for the Raspberry Pi Pico, and the can2 logic analyzer CAN protocol decoder.

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CAN Priority Inversion

The problem of priority inversion is well-known and.. actually, scratch that: it’s clearly not well known at all because people keep making the same mistake. So we are publishing this...

Ken
29 Jun 2020

New CPU architecture for automotive systems

The automotive industry is going through quite a change in the way it designs electronics for in-vehicle systems. The traditional approach has been to procure an Electronic Control Unit (ECU)...

Ken
28 Jan 2020

Three new CAN protocol hacks

The CANHack toolkit includes support for various kinds of attacks on the CAN protocol, including three new unpublished attacks. These new hacks are described in this blog post. There is...

Ken
20 Jan 2020

Introducing the CANHack toolkit

For the last few weeks we’ve been developing the CANHack toolkit for CAN protocol hacking. It’s a portable bit-banging library to emulate the minimal parts of the CAN protocol required...