Last week, researchers and presented an exploit at BlackHat Europe allowing for arbitrary code execution on the Intel ME platform. In short, if you were designing a piece of hardware to spy on everyone using an Intel-branded computer, you would come up with something like the Intel Managment Engine. Parts of this spy chip were included in the silicon at the behest of the NSA. It’s always on, even when the rest of your computer is off, and with the right software, you can wake it up over a network connection. This microcontroller is connected to everything, and can shuttle data between your hard drive and your network adapter. Beside RS232 interface, the usage of the K-Line interface is possible.Over the last decade, Intel has been including a tiny little microcontroller inside their CPUs. The MemTool offers additionally the host-target communication via a standard RS232 host interface (COMx). in the memory window) the FLASH programming tool may be launched and the edited data can be burned into the memory using simulated bytewise programming.Īs communication channels ASC Bootstrap loader, CAN Bootstrap loader, CAN in combination with ASC Bootstrap loader and JTAG can be used. In the Transparent-Erase Mode, after editing a memory area in the debugger (e.g. Programming may be started or cancelled manually. In a dialog box all areas to be programmed are displayed. UDE MemTool can handle more than one memory module on the target system and is only using On-Chip RAM for execution (IRAM XRAM when available).Īutomatic activation when downloading an application in the debugger if write accesses onto the FLASH are required. BMI (Boot Mode Index) header handling for some derivatives.ABM (Alternate Boot Mode) header handling for some derivatives.UCB (User Configuration Blocks) handling for some derivatives.PCM (Phase Change Memory) programming for some devices.Setting and Resetting the Chip/Sector Protection (On-Chip only).Read back and save-to-disk of the current memory content.Comparing all or selected portions of the file to the current contents of the memory module.Programming all or selected portions of the file into the memory module.Loading Intel Hex and Motorola S-Record files.Erasing selected sectors of the memory module.UDE MemTool offers the following functions (depending on the type of memory):

Intel flash programming tool