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1 The long-term goal of FreeCalypso SIMtrace replacement project is to support
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2 both SIM interface sniffing (SIMsniff) and card emulation (SIMemu). Both
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3 functions are needed when working in the realm of Vintage Mobile Phones:
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5 * Non-invasive, Heisenbug-free Hi-Z sniffing is needed in order to see why
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6 certain phone-to-SIM combinations work while others don't, and to see exactly
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7 what a given finicky phone requires from that special hard-to-get SIM.
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9 * The next step of cloning that special SIM, or producing new SIMs that satisfy
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10 the weird requirements of the finicky phone, will often require full emulation
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11 of ISO 7816-4 / GSM 11.11 file system and CardOS in software, as we don't have
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12 a real smartcard chip that gives us full freedom to implement whatever we
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13 like.
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15 However, in terms of scheduling priority, all of our initial work focuses on
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16 the sniffer, with SIMemu (cardem) deferred to some indefinite later time. We
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17 do, however, have a preliminary idea of how we envision card emulation working:
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19 * Hardware setups will be different between SIMsniff and SIMemu. Our initial
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20 objective is to produce a solidly usable, production quality sniffer pod,
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21 described as HW setup version 2 in the Sniffing-hw-setup article. As the
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22 name says, this pod will be for sniffing only. For card emulation there will
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23 be a different SIMemu pod.
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25 * The SIMemu pod will be similar to the SIMsniff pod, with just two changes:
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27 - We'll add a 74LVC1G07 OD driver for pulling the I/O line low in exactly the
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28 same way how real SIM cards do it;
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30 - The SIM socket will be eliminated from the SIMemu pod, to eliminate any
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31 possibility of a real SIM and SIMemu "fighting" to talk back to the same
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32 ME/ID.
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34 * FPGA gateware will also be different between SIMsniff and SIMemu. The SIMemu
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35 design is expected to be more complex and use more FPGA resources, but there
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36 is a good chance it will still fit into iCE40-HX1K FPGA and thus allow us to
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37 keep using the same Icestick board.
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39 * Right now we have no plans to stick a soft CPU core into the FPGA for SIMemu,
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40 instead the plan is to use the same principal architecture as the sniffer
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41 FPGA, using the UART channel at 3 Mbps to communicate with the host - although
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42 this time this UART will be used bidirectionally.