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| align="right" | (not) Chip Select    || CS    || <font size="+2">→</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 1 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | /CS      || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | VCC     || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 8 || <font size="+2">←</font> || +3.3v || align="left" | Supply
| align="right" | (not) Chip Select    || CS    || <font size="+2">→</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 1 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | /CS      || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | VCC         || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 8 || <font size="+2">←</font> || +3.3v || align="left" | Supply
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| align="right" | Master In, Slave Out || MISO  || <font size="+2">←</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 2 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | DO (IO1)  || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | /HOLD   || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 7 || <font size="+2">←</font> || +3.3v || align="left" | (not) hold (see datasheets)
| align="right" | Master In, Slave Out || MISO  || <font size="+2">←</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 2 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | DO (IO1)  || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | /HOLD (IO3) || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 7 || <font size="+2">←</font> || +3.3v || align="left" | (not) hold (see datasheets)
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| align="right" | (not) Write Protect  || +3.3v || <font size="+2">→</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 3 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | /WP (IO2) || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | CLK     || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 6 || <font size="+2">←</font> || SCLK || align="left" | The SPI clock
| align="right" | (not) Write Protect  || +3.3v || <font size="+2">→</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 3 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | /WP (IO2) || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | CLK         || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 6 || <font size="+2">←</font> || SCLK || align="left" | The SPI clock
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| align="right" | Ground              || GND  || <font size="+2">→</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 4 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | GND      || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | DI (IO0) || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 5 || <font size="+2">←</font> || MOSI  || align="left" | Master Out, Slave In  
| align="right" | Ground              || GND  || <font size="+2">→</font> || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 4 || align="left" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | GND      || align="right" style="background: #DDDDDD;" | DI (IO0)   || style="background: #DDDDDD;" | 5 || <font size="+2">←</font> || MOSI  || align="left" | Master Out, Slave In  
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Revision as of 20:25, 1 December 2012

Bus Pirate v3, front
Bus Pirate v3, back
Recovering a bricked SPI based device using a Bus Pirate

The Bus Pirate is an open source design for a multi-purpose chip-level serial protocol transceiver and debugger. Flashrom supports the Bus Pirate for SPI programming. It also has SPI sniffing functionality, which may come in useful for analysing chip or programmer behaviour.

They are available for around US$30 from various sources.

Connections

The table below shows how a typical SPI flash chip (sitting in the center of the table) needs to be connected (NB: not all flash chips feature all of the pins below, but in general you should always connect all input pins of ICs to some defined potential (usually GND or VCC), ideally with a pull-up/down resistor in between). Most SPI flash chips require a 3.3V supply voltage, but there exist some models that use e.g. 1.8V. Make sure the device in question is compatible before connecting any wires.

Description Bus Pirate Dir. Flash chip Dir. Bus Pirate Description
(not) Chip Select CS 1 /CS VCC 8 +3.3v Supply
Master In, Slave Out MISO 2 DO (IO1) /HOLD (IO3) 7 +3.3v (not) hold (see datasheets)
(not) Write Protect +3.3v 3 /WP (IO2) CLK 6 SCLK The SPI clock
Ground GND 4 GND DI (IO0) 5 MOSI Master Out, Slave In

Usage

$ flashrom -p buspirate_spi:dev=/dev/device,spispeed=frequency 

Example:

$ flashrom -p buspirate_spi:dev=/dev/ttyUSB0,spispeed=1M

Troubleshooting

In case of problems probing the chip with flashrom - especially when connecting chips still soldered in a system - please take a look at this page. In circuit programming it often possible, so long as no other devices on the SPI bus are trying to access the device.

Speedup

A beta firmware build exists, to speed up the buspirate. See this post on dangerousprototypes.com: http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=3864&start=15#p41505

http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate#Firmware_upgrades