Internship - Hardware Robustness for SMI Register Interfaces in Automotive PHY Chips

Hardware Robustness for SMI Register Interfaces in Automotive PHY Chips Duration : 6 months Location : Eindhoven, Netherlands (hybrid) Background and Motivation Automotive PHY devices expose their configuration and status registers over the Serial Management Interface (SMI), a two-wire serial bus (MDC / MDIO) defined by IEEE 802.3 Clause 22/45. In the current implementation, the SMI link carries no inherent data-integrity protection: there is no parity bit, no CRC, and no acknowledgment mechani…