Hi Guys,
hope all of the readers are doing just fine & are healthy.
So, I’m a big NewAE fanboy and hence bought the PhyWhisperer.
I now want start playing around with triggering a glitch when sending certain USB commands to a DuT.
Anyway, the embedded device running is not powered via USB but instead uses an external 12V power supply.
So, I would like to ask you about your opinion regarding the most elegant solution for being able to trigger a reboot automatically. I can think about some evil hacks using relais which are flying around here somewhere but meh, you guys probably know better than me.
I really would have to do this in an automated manner, because the device may get unresponsive when injecting the faults. This has already been shown during testing.
Second, when having some really basic analysis it shows up, that the time variance from
1) Transferring the command on USB packet level
2) Receiving the answer of the command
is rather high.
In recent publications, it has been mentioned that the time variance has been about ~4us. In my case however, it varies about ~50us.
This may be due to the fact of initializing crypto libraries etc. which require some entropy source being ready2go.
Do you have any suggestions on how to generate reliable glitches anyway?
Hope to hear from you.
Have a nice weekend,
Marvin