PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis
7 hours ago
- #Automation Platform
- #Embedded Systems
- #PCB Security Analysis
- PROBoter is a platform designed to automate PCB analysis for security testing, focusing on tasks like visual inspection and electrical probing.
- It originated from a master's thesis aimed at automating embedded system security analysis by providing hardware and software solutions.
- Key features include a hardware platform with up to four probes, an integrated camera system, open-source design, automated calibration, and automated visual analysis using Neural Networks.
- The manual process of embedded system security analysis involves tasks like PCB disassembly, component inspection, reverse engineering, interaction via analysis tools, signal analysis, and reporting.
- PROBoter automates many of these steps, including generating high-resolution PCB images, locating and identifying components, pinpointing pins for probing, and documenting results.
- Future enhancements could include further automated security tests and deeper integration of tools like JTAGulators for interface identification.
- The next part of the series will detail the PROBoter hardware platform and its auto-calibration routine.