Portland-based SecuringHardware.com has introduced EPIC Erebus, a compact M.2 board that hosts a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) — to make it simpler to hold out analysis into PCI Specific safety vulnerabilities.
“EPIC Erebus is a small, moveable, and easy-to-use M.2 FPGA board particularly tailor-made for PCIe analysis and DMA assaults,” SecuringHardware.com’s Joseph FitzPatrick explains. “Along with supporting a lot of the capabilities of different PCILeech-compatible {hardware}, it’s well-suited to embedded, stand-alone operation. We’re additionally engaged on a totally open PCIe implementation that may permit us to tinker round with the bottom layers of the PCIe protocol in a method that’s unattainable on gadgets with laborious PCIe implementations.”
In case you’re trying to mess around with PCI Specific on the lowest of ranges, an EPIC Erebus will assist. (📷: SecuringHardware.com)
The small M.2 2230 A+E-key board is constructed round a Lattice Semiconductor ECP5 FPGA, both the ECP5-25 or the ECP5-5G-85, with both 128Gb (16GB) or 256Gb (32GB) of RAM. There is a microSD Card slot for storage, or the choice of 8GB of on-board flash reminiscence, and it helps PCI Specific Gen. 1 or Gen. 2 on one aspect and USB 2.0 or 3.0 on the opposite.
“EPIC Erebus is designed primarily as a PCIe DMA [Direct Memory Access] analysis system,” FitzPatrick explains. “We intention to ship it with a bitstream that, out of the field, permits standalone operation for reminiscence acquisition and match/patch performance. We hope to help tethered operation over USB sooner or later.”
The corporate is making ready a crowdfunding marketing campaign for mass manufacturing of the board. (📷: SecuringHardware.com)
“Even should you’re not concerned about PCIe,” FitzPatrick continues, “Erebus will function as a tiny ECP5 dev board you’ll be able to hold put in inside your laptop computer. Alternatively, you could possibly adapt it to another high-speed serial interface with mechanical adapters and the suitable gateware.”
The corporate plans to fund manufacturing of the board by way of Crowd Provide, the place events may be signed as much as be notified when the marketing campaign goes dwell; FitzPatrick has additionally promised to launch the {hardware} and gateware below an unspecified open-source license on GitHub — although, on the time of writing, the repositories had not but been made public.
