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Hardware research lab

Assessing an IoT device or verifying your own firmware means talking to the silicon. This area covers the bench: multimeters and power supplies, logic analyzers, UART adapters, JTAG/SWD probes, SPI flash readers and software-defined radios, with the legal and safety guard rails that go with them.

  • UART
  • JTAG/SWD
  • SDR

Guides in this topic

  1. Building a hardware security research bench

    The equipment for assessing embedded devices you own or are authorized to test: power and measurement, logic analyzers, UART adapters, JTAG/SWD probes, SPI flash readers, and the defenses they reveal.

  2. Software-defined radio for security research

    How SDRs differ in frequency range, bandwidth, ADC resolution and transmit capability, which one fits which defensive task, and the legal and RF-safety guard rails for a radio lab.