PicoEMP: low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool

Summary

The PicoEMP is a low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool, designed specifically for self-study and hobbiest research. Under the safety shield it looks like this: You can see some details of the design in the Intro Video. Thanks / Contributors PicoEMP is a community-focused project, with major contributions from: Colin O'Flynn (original HW design, simple Python demo) stacksmashing (C firmware for full PIO feature-set) Lennert Wouters (C improvements, first real demo) @nilswiersma (Triggering/C improvements) Background The ChipSHOUTER is a high-end Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool designed by Colin at NewAE Technology. While not the first commercially available EMFI tool, ChipSHOUTER was the first "easily purchasable" (even if expensive) tool with extensive open documentation. The tool was not open-source, but it did contain a variety of detailed description of the design and architecture in the User Manual. The ChipSHOUTER design optimization focused in rough order on (1) safe operation, (2) high performance, (3) usability, and finally (4) cost. This results in a tool that covers many use-cases, but may be overkill (and too costly) for many. In additional, acquiring the safety testing/certification is not cheap, and must be accounted for in the product sale price. The PicoEMP tries to fill in the gap that ChipSHOUTER leaves at the lower end of the spectrum. This PicoEMP project is not the ChipSHOUTER. Instead it's designed to present a "bare bones" tool that has a design optimization focused in rough order of (1) safe operation, (2) cost, (3) usability, (4) performance. Despite the focus on safety and low-cost, it works suprisingly well. It is also not sold as a complete product - you are responsible for building it, ensuring it meets any relevant safety requirements/certifications, and we completely disclaim all liability for what happens next. Please only use PicoEMP where you are building and controlling it yourself, with total understandin...