[LinuxBIOS] USB debug device

Tom Sylla tsylla at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 02:05:31 CET 2006


Bari Ari wrote:
> I2C Bus to USB or serial adapters
> http://www.mcc-us.com/catalog.htm#I2C%20Bus%20Host%20Adapters
> 
> I2C/SPI Host Adapter
> http://www.totalphase.com/products/aardvark/
> 
> I2C Bus to USB or serial adapters
> http://www.telos.info/products/
> 
> QBridge-I2C-USB
> http://www.qprotos.com/index.html
> 
> This adapter even has Linux tools:
> USB-I2C/SPI/GPIO Interface Adapter
> http://www.diolan.com/i2c/u2c12.html

Those are a lot of interesting links. They are all pretty expensive, 
though. A bargain basement option would be an AVR butterfly. The Atmel 
micros have UART/SPI/I2C built in, and the butterfly is 20USD. You could 
even probably achieve USB with this, there is software bitbang (!) USB 
available for AVR.

http://www.dwelch.com/avr/
http://www.obdev.at/products/avrusb/projects.html
http://www.harbaum.org/till/i2c_tiny_usb/

> with a probe like this that slides into the dimm socket:
> http://www.busboards.com/products/memory/ddrii/ddrii400dc/ddriidc.jpg
> http://www.busboards.com/products/memory/ddrii/ddrii400dc/index.html

That one is a little bit out there. That board is probably $10K, and you 
need a $100K Tek Logic Analyzer to use it. :)





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