Bus Pirate firmware v5.2 is ready for download. This release has a grab-bag of improvements that all point north. The Bus Pirate documentation wiki has been refreshed and reorganized to match firmware v5.2.
- UART baudrate can be manually set to any speed for pcside (uart1) and protocol (uart2)
- Warning when the speed of uart2 is faster then uart1
- Fixed text formatting in self-test
- PWM and power are forbidden in HiZ
- Eliminated vpullup and vreg tracking variable
- Power supplies tested 2ms after W – if they are too low (short circuit) the BP throws an error and turns them off.
- Source cleanup. Removed lots of v0a and v2a defines (no longer supported since v3.6).
- Added a general any key to exit message
- I2C address search checks for a low bus and exits with a warning instead of showing 256 addresses. Good bye support nightmare :).
- Error if the I2C bus is low (no pullups or contention) at the I2C start bit,
- Fixed double display stuff in the raw2wire ATR macros
- Fixed the frequency measure after voltage bug
- Removed the repeat on /\-_
- The 1-wire library – and _ set the data state variable but don’t send a bit. This is more consistent with other bus modes.
- Added a peek function to 1-wire that returns the stored data state.
Get a Bus Pirate for $30, including worldwide shipping at Seeed Studio. Adafruit also has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship.
V5.3 will probably have some of these improvements:
- I2C sniffer update
- Terminal text review and refresh
- PIC extensions to raw2wire
- Flashrom bug followup
- Expanded protocol documentation in the wiki for each bus mode
Are there any changes you’d like to see? Any specific requests as we refresh the terminal text? After we finish the update, it would be great to update the translation files to the new format and release localized versions again.