We are currently attempting to figure out what Microcontroller the Denso D151802 actually is. Its challenging in that there is NO information about this chip.

And I've come to the conclusion that its a part number (since the latter 4 digits like a - 2360 postfix are a rom-version) that they sourced from someone else and put their RTOS on it (real-time operating system).

If we can find out what chip it was, we can get the appropriate hardware. The look of the chip is strikingly similar to the Motorola MC68HC000P8 which is a 68k variant. http://www.cpu-collection.de/?tn=0&l...90&l2=Motorola

The chip is a DIP-64, which makes it a bit newer than the older DIP-40 68k hardware. I keep seeing info crop up about it not being a real motorola since the instruction encoding is different than standard 68k. I hope that is wrong.

Its identity is important because that allows us to scan the chip. I've already come up with a solution for making it easy to swap out the chip, but we have to run a scan tool on it and find out where all of the map data is scanned from, understand where the different data tables are located, and then modify appropriately with a newer implementation that will allow us to use actual flash-memory so it can be programmed very quickly.

I've got a lot of software development experience, but for those of you that do have C/C++/C#/VB/etc experience, we're going to need you eventually I plan on using .Net on this puppy because I plan on designing a network interface into the software for a variety of reasons, and I've already got a lot of code that will do that. Plus I just like .Net

 

Well please do it to it, before I have to buy management, for my swap.

 

Great plan, now pull it off!

 

Awesome concept. Very cool that the're members with your apptitude that can take on something like this. Happy hunting

 

it seems like there are quite a few members who are capable with computer programming and such to be able to pull this off, its really nice to see our community get together to help solve something like this

 

CCC-TT, if this was just computer programming, I would have finished it in just a few minutes. The complexity of the problem is that Toyota does not have a typical memory chip that one can modify like other cars do. Their microprocessors are actual "computer on a chip" microcontrollers that have internal memory. This memory is read-only and can only be accessed with compatible hardware.

We may have found the details we need to construct a rom dump of the Toyota chip; which is a Toshiba unit, btw.

 

Very cool idea. It's about time Toyo-drivers had easy-access options for ECU changes and upgrades. How about a version for th JZ VVTi turbo motors?

 

We are dying for EPROM chips...

 

Well with the setup we've got under research, its not going to use eeprom; it will use flash.

I've got some intimate knowledge of socket-based programming (especially under windows) and hardware access; and I think I can make this thing remotely tunable; might be nice for the tuner who cant be there but can read the O2, rpms, etc all datalogged along with dynofigures (dyno files are very small)

 

This would be great! I just bought a new WRX TR 2007, amazing how much can be done, yet we don't have anything for the lexus....

Goodluck!!!!

 

Just a heads up though its gonna be at least a year before anything remotely workable would be completed.

There is a lot of work ahead but for anyone serious about helping please sign up here.

http://www.clubna-t.com/forums/showt...9447#post29447

 

wow!! hopefully this works out. that would be awesome. well good luck on the project.

 

Thanks for all the well wishes guys We've made some informative strides and it seems there is something we may be able to backwards engineer; but its going to be a little bit before we have the funding

 

Wow, y'all are my heroes. =0)
~Joe

 

i wish the same could be done for the 1UZ ecu....good luck though!