Our staff member Zafer Attal presented his work titled “An Approach for Automotive ECU Diagnosis via Ethernet Snooping & Microcontroller Tracing” at the Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) and Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), held from September 10 to 12, 2025 in Salerno, Italy.
His contribution addresses key challenges in automotive electronic control unit (ECU) diagnosis with a focus on cross-domain fault analysis and real-time anomaly detection. The proposed Diagnosis Unit (DU) concept combines Ethernet-based communication monitoring with processor trace analysis, offering a minimally intrusive approach to correlate anomalies in-vehicle networks (IVN) with deviations in ECU-level processing.
During the presentation, Zafer discussed the limitations of current diagnostic approaches—such as static fault models, lack of cross-domain correlation, cloud dependence, and limited real-time capability—and outlined the architecture of the proposed Diagnosis Unit and its potential implementation on a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZCU102 platform.

The DSD/SEAA conference brought together leading researchers in embedded systems, hardware-software co-design, and intelligent diagnostics, fostering insightful discussions and valuable feedback that will support further development of the Diagnosis Unit architecture. The full paper is available online via the WiPiEC Journal publication page.