Bus Pirate v3 is a universal bus interface that talks to electronics from a PC serial terminal. Get to know a chip without writing code. Eliminates a ton of early prototyping effort with new or unknown chips. A laser cut acrylic case for Bus Pirate v3.6 is also available.

 

 

1-Wire, I2C, SPI, JTAG, asynchronous serial (UART), MIDI, PC keyboard, HD44780 LCDs, and generic 2- and 3-wire libraries for custom protocols.

 

• USB interface, USB powered
• 5volt tolerant pins
• 0-6volt measurement probe
• 1Hz-40MHz frequency measurement
• 1kHz-4MHz pulse-width modulator, frequency generator
• On-board multi-voltage pull-up resistors
• On-board 3.3volt and 5volt power supplies with software reset
• Macros for common operations
• Bus traffic sniffers (SPI, I2C)
• Transparent USB to serial bridge mode
• 10Hz-1MHz low-speed logic analyzer
• Custom support in AVRDUDE , Flashrom , OpenOCD
• AVR STK500 v2 programmer clone
• Scriptable from Perl, Python, etc.
• A bootloader for easy USB firmware updates
• Uses DP6037 standard PCB layout
• Open source (CC 0/Public Domain)

 

• Bus Pirate manual
• Hardware overview
• Chip demonstrations
• Latest firmware
• Bus Pirate forum