In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Editor-in-Chief Ken Briodagh sits down with Marten Smith, Principal Segment Manager for the Medical and Health Segment at Microchip Technology. Together, they explore how Microchip supports innovation in the medical field, navigates stringent security standards, and tackles the challenges of certifying new medical devices. They also discuss how advancements in AI are paving the way for improved patient care.

Just about everybody in the engineering space has reverse-engineered a product at some point. It might have been for professional reasons, like seeing how a competitor is attacking a problem or simply seeing how they engineered a product. Or it could have been for personal reasons, because the product stopped working, or simply because they wanted to. 

Note: If you search for “Tear Down” on Embedded Computing Design, you can see the products we’ve reverse-engineered.

Then there are those people, like the folks at emproof, who get paid to reverse-engineer products, particularly on the software side. Tim Blazytko, the company’s Chief Scientist, Head of Engineering, and Co-Founder, joined us on this episode of DevTalk with Rich and Vin to share some of his experiences with reverse engineering.

Emproof and DDC-I introduced a partnership to deliver advanced security solutions for Deos-based systems outlined in the whitepaper, Advanced Embedded Security with DDC-I Deos and Emproof Nyx. The collaboration combines the capabilities of DDC-I’s Deos real-time operating system (RTOS) with Emproof’s security solution, Emproof Nyx addresses threats such as reverse engineering and exploitation attacks while supporting customized protection.

Emproof launched two new online demos for Emproof Nyx, its innovated IP protection and exploit mitigation solution for embedded software. The released demos show that Emproof is continuously committed to educating the industry on potential threats to all software systems with its software security framework.

Emproof will be demonstrating its innovative Emproof Nyx at this year’s embedded world. This year, we will be debuting our demo of Emproof Nyx. Learn available tools an attacker uses to probe software and watch how Emproof Nyx can help protect against exploitations in product source code.

Emproof Nyx is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than existing solutions, making it the ideal solution for embedded devices based on ARM, Intel and RISC-V ISAs. No access to source code is needed as the transformational software acts like a post compilation step and just requires access to binary code or libraries, which also means that it works with any build processes and all existing toolchains.