{"id":136,"date":"2007-04-13T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/04\/hardware-protocol-analyzers\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:46:12","slug":"hardware-protocol-analyzers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/04\/hardware-protocol-analyzers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware protocol analyzers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After learning of my involvement with USB drivers through a recent interview in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/news\/en\/gwn\/20070326-newsletter.xml\">Gentoo Weekly Newsletter<\/a>, Elias P has donated me a couple of hardware protocol analyzers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalphase.com\/products\/beagle\/usb\/\">Total Phase Beagle USB Protocol Analyzer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalphase.com\/products\/beagle\/i2cspi\/\">Total Phase Beagle I2C\/SPI Protocol Analyzer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The USB one should be useful with my current and future USB driver projects, and will be a useful tool to learn more about USB on the physical\/electrical level. In addition, the vendor do provide Linux drivers but they are closed source, so I will soon be attempting to reverse engineer the protocol analyzer (oh the irony) in order to provide open drivers.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t currently have a use for the I2C\/SPI analyzer, so if you know of any open source developers who would find this useful in their projects, please send them this way. I&#8217;m happy to send this device on, provided that I can see that it will be used to aid open source development.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: I2C\/SPI analyzer was donated to David Brownell for Linux kernel SPI development.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Elias!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After learning of my involvement with USB drivers through a recent interview in a Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, Elias P has donated me a couple of hardware protocol analyzers: Total Phase Beagle USB Protocol Analyzer Total Phase Beagle I2C\/SPI Protocol Analyzer The USB one should be useful with my current and future USB driver projects, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}