xiongyw / pin-uart

FPGA board-level debugging and reverse-engineering tool

Pin UART Readme

GitHub repository: https://github.com/alexforencich/pin-uart

Introduction

The pin UART is an FPGA board-level debugging and reverse-engineering utility. The design drives pin names out of all of the IO pins on a device, which can then be probed with an oscilloscope with serial decode capability.

The build is scripted to generate the top-level HDL and pin constraint files based on the device pins. Currently, only Vivado is supported, but it should be straightforward to port to other tools.

Documentation

pin_uart module

The pin_uart module is a simple state machine that will shift out the configured string when triggered, including appropriate start and stop bits.