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An Automotive Engineer's Roadmap to Cyber-Resilient Vehicles
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onAutomotive cybersecurity, a rapidly growing field with many exciting challenges, is crucial for enabling current and future connected vehicle features. This book, focusing on practical topics, aims to help address the industry's significant talent shortage in building secure automotive systems. It's a tool designed to give automotive engineers a competitive edge.
The book provides a comprehensive examination of both current and future automotive vehicle architectures, relevant threats, and the necessary skills to address them. It then delves into cybersecurity engineering methods, with a focus on complying with existing automotive standards while making the process advantageous.
The chapters are intended to assist you in understanding both the theory and practice of constructing secure systems, considering the cost, time, and resource constraints of automotive engineering. The final chapters take a hands-on, practical approach to threat modeling automotive systems and instruct you on implementing security controls across various vehicle architecture layers.
By the end of this book, you will have learned effective methods for managing cybersecurity risks in any automotive product, from individual libraries to entire vehicle architectures.
Learn about present and future vehicle networking technologies. Explore fundamental concepts for securing automotive systems. Discover diverse approaches to system threat modeling. Use best practices for efficient threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) for automotive systems. Fully understand ISO/SAE 21434's approach to cybersecurity engineering. Ensure that cybersecurity controls are implemented throughout all stages of the vehicle life cycle. Master ECU-level cybersecurity controls.
If you are an engineer looking to start in automotive cybersecurity or understand applicable security standards for your product, this book is for you. This book is intended for experienced engineers seeking a practical approach to automotive cybersecurity development that can be achieved within a reasonable time frame while leveraging established safety and quality processes. Understanding basic automotive development processes across the V-model will help you get the most out of this book. More Information...
Teensy 4.1 Triple CAN Bus Board with Two CAN 2.0B and One CAN FD Port with 240x240 IPS LCD
The Teensy 4.1 Triple CAN Bus Board with 240x240 IPS LCD is a Teensy 4.1 board with triple CAN Bus connections, two Classical CAN 2.0B, and one CAN FD. It can be powered by an external +12 VDC power supply with reverse voltage protection. Also included is a 240x240 wide-angle IPS TFT LCD.
The Teensy 4.1 is an Arduino-compatible board with an Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller at 600 MHz. The board is compatible with the Arduino IDE and the Arduino library. In most cases, code written for another Arduino board works with a minimum of changes on a Teensy. More Information...
Telematics Gateway Choosing Criteria and Use Cases
An article in the CiA (CAN in Automation) CAN Newsletter explains the functionality, discusses the selection criteria, and describes the use cases of a telematics gateway using an example telematics device. As cars become more connected, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) require telematics solutions that enable smooth communication within and outside the vehicle. The device should be cloud-enabled, [...]
Turn Your Smartphone into a Heavy-Duty Diagnostics Tool
Turn your smartphone into a user-friendly HD diagnostic tool. Download and sync via Bluetooth to the free Diesel Decoder smartphone app to view vital diagnostic and trip data. When your rig throws a fault code, the Diesel Decoder is your reliable companion. It removes the guesswork, guiding you to either clear the codes and continue your journey [...]
ECU and GPS Modules with CAN, CAN FD, SAE J1939 Connections
PEAK-System presented several innovative I/O products with Classical CAN and CAN FD connections in this year's Embedded World trade show. The versatile control unit PCAN-MicroMod FD ECU integrates customer-specific accessories for automotive applications. For this purpose, the device offers a CAN FD connection and a combination of analog and digital I/Os. The I/O processing and message [...]
Automotive Power Management IC with LIN and CAN-FD Interfaces
The SPSB081 by STMicroelectronics is a power management chip providing electronic control units (ECU) with power management functionality. It supports CAN FD and, optionally, comes with LIN transceivers. The SPSB081 operates at various standby modes with programmable local and remote wake-up capabilities to minimize power consumption. The chip has a low-drop voltage regulator to supply the host microcontroller [...]
A New Generation of SAE J1939 Gateway, ECU Simulator, and Starter Kit
Like many other businesses, we have to deal with the global shortage of electronic components. For instance, the NXP LPC 17xx processors we used for our SAE J1939 gateways and the starter kit are not available at this time. Even worse, there is no reliable information if/when production resumes. This situation forced us to rethink [...]
SAE J1939 Starter Kit With Diesel Engine Simulation Plus VIN Request Demo
Our JCOM.J1939 Starter Kit And Network Simulator is designed to allow the experienced engineer as well as the beginner to experiment with SAE J1939 data communication without the need of connecting to a real-world SAE J1939 network, i.e. a diesel engine. It may sound obvious, but in order to establish a network, you need at least two [...]
Automotive ECU Development With ARM Cortex Processor Supporting Up To Eight CAN FD Interfaces
The UDE (Universal Debugging Engine) by PLS (Germany) provides debugging and analysis functions for NXP’s S32S247 and i.MX RT MCUs with up to eight CAN FD (Flexible Data Rate) interfaces. The S32S247 multi-core controller combines four 800-MHz Cortex-R52 processors with 64-MiB integrated flash memory. Designed for safety-related real-time applications up to ASIL-D (automotive safety integrity level), the device is suitable [...]
Analog Signal Output Controller With CAN Bus And SAE J1939 Port
Axiomatic has announced its AX130770, an ECU System converting CAN Bus data to two analog or digital isolated signals and one relay output for rugged engine applications.The relay output converter connects to a CAN Bus vehicle network (SAE J1939, high-speed SAE J1939m, or CANopen). It accommodates two analog/digital isolated signal outputs, which can be configured as 0 [...]
ECU CAN Bus Simulator for OBD-II Development
The OBDLink ScanTool ECUsim 2000 ECU CAN Simulator for OBD-II Development is a small diagnostic tool that is ideal for DIY testing and development of OBD services and software. The CAN Bus (ISO 15765) model supports a range of parameter IDs, diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs), freeze frames, and SAE J1979 modes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, and [...]