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ECU and reverse engineering
OEM and aftermarket ECU integration, with CAN and protocol reverse engineering to make systems talk to each other.
Placeholder image. Representative, not a photograph.
The data you need is often already on the car, locked inside an OEM or aftermarket ECU that does not publish what it sends. Without that, you are adding duplicate sensors, missing channels, or running two systems that cannot see each other.
- Capture and analyse the bus traffic to identify the messages and signals that matter.
- Reverse engineer the protocol or message layout where it is undocumented, and verify each decoded signal against known references.
- Build the integration: a gateway, a translation layer, or configuration so the systems exchange the right data cleanly.
- Validate end to end on the car, not just on a bench capture.
- Decoded CAN or protocol definitions for the signals the project needs.
- An integration or gateway that makes the ECU and the rest of the system work together.
- Documentation of what was decoded and how, so it can be maintained.
- OEM CAN and OBD-II, aftermarket ECUs including MoTeC, Haltech, Link and Emtron
- Custom CAN gateways and translation layers on our own hardware where needed
- Integration with loggers, dashes and bespoke embedded systems we build
A modern car is full of data that is already being transmitted and simply not shared. ECU and reverse engineering work is about getting at that data legitimately and making separate systems work as one.
We capture and analyse bus traffic, reverse engineer undocumented CAN messages and protocols, and verify every decoded signal against a known reference before it is trusted. The point is not a guess that looks plausible on a graph. It is a decoded channel you can rely on for setup and engineering decisions.
From there we build the integration: a translation layer, a CAN gateway on our own hardware, or the configuration that makes an OEM or aftermarket ECU exchange the right data with the logger, dash or custom system. It is validated on the car, end to end, and documented so it can be maintained rather than re-discovered the next time something changes.
This work is mail-in friendly. Where the vehicle cannot travel, we can often progress from a representative capture and a clear description of the systems involved.
The data locked in the ECU, decoded and made to work with everything else.