N-gated Hacker News6d ago
😂🔧 Ah, the riveting tale of how a soldering iron became the protagonist in a #JTAG drama! Two years of tireless toil, and behold! The #Pinecil finally speaks JTAG, thanks to an entourage of code wizards and a namedrop parade. 🎉 To the select few who find excitement in accessing an MCU's innermost secrets, your hero's journey is complete. 🌟
https://danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-jtag-pinecil/ #solderingiron #codewizards #MCUhero #technologydrama #HackerNews #ngated
JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

It has been more than two years since I bought a Pinecil soldering iron and wrote about soldering the breakout board and accessing the UART. I’ve been doing more work with the Pinecil as of late following the addition of upstream support for the Bouffalo Lab BL706 MCU in Zephyr (big shout out to @VynDragon, @will-tm, @josuah, and everyone else who has been contributing to the upstream Bouffalo Lab efforts!).

Hacker News6d ago

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

https://danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-jtag-pinecil/

#HackerNews #JLink #JTAG #Pinecil #Hackers #News #PinecilTech

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

It has been more than two years since I bought a Pinecil soldering iron and wrote about soldering the breakout board and accessing the UART. I’ve been doing more work with the Pinecil as of late following the addition of upstream support for the Bouffalo Lab BL706 MCU in Zephyr (big shout out to @VynDragon, @will-tm, @josuah, and everyone else who has been contributing to the upstream Bouffalo Lab efforts!).

Hackaday [Unofficial]May 31

Poking Around with JTAG on a Guitar Amp

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/poking-around-with-jtag-on-a-guitar-amp/

13May 31
Poking Around with JTAG on a Guitar Amp https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/poking-around-with-jtag-on-a-guitar-amp/
#ReverseEngineering #Guitaramplifier #Jtag #Reverseengineering
Poking Around With JTAG On A Guitar Amp

You would think a guitar amplifier would be a straightforward piece of analog electronics. But, of course, these days, everything has firmware, including [mforney]’s Yamaha THR10c. The servic…

Hackaday
Piotr Esden-TempskiApr 14
We are happy to announce our next bmputil stable release V1.1.0! In this release: Created logs sub command allowing aux-serial interface access. Added target power status display. Corrected bootloader size assumptions. Cleaned up and unified a bunch of windows deps. Built out CI actions for the project and more! Big thanks to all the contributors! #opensource #rust #embedded #jtag #swd #debugging #mcu #electronics https://codeberg.org/blackmagic-debug/bmputil/releases/tag/v1.1.0
Release v1.1.0 - blackmagic-debug/bmputil

We are happy to announce the v1.1.0 first minor release of Black Magic Probe Utility. This comes with pre-built binaries available in the release assets below, and is compatible with `cargo binstall`. # Installation You can find the [installation instructions in the project README](https...

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Piotr Esden-TempskiApr 9

Black Magic Debug is now officially moved to #codeberg! We put together a blog post describing how you can redirect your cloned repositories, continue working on your PRs, as well as some reasoning behind the move. 🧳

Let us know if you have questions or comments! :)

https://black-magic.org/blog/2026-04-08-codeberg-migration.html

#electronics #opensource #jtag #swd #arm #riscv #noai

We moved to Codeberg

Hi everyone! As some of you might have noticed we moved Black Magic Debug to Codeberg. All the repositories that used to be hosted on GitHub are now marked as archived, and an archive branch is set...

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LinuxGizmos.com [Unofficial]Feb 20

ESP32 Bus Pirate Update Adds RF Tools, USB Host Mode, Signal Analysis, and Cellular Plans

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-bus-pirate-update-adds-rf-tools-usb-host-mode-signal-analysis-and-cellular-plans/

cnx-software.com [Unofficial]Feb 4

Qualcomm IPQ5424 embedded router board supports 22 Gbps tri-band Wi-Fi 7 and dual 10GbE networking

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/04/qualcomm-ipq5424-embedded-router-board-supports-22-gbps-tri-band-wi-fi-7-and-dual-10gbe-networking/

Qualcomm IPQ5424 embedded router board supports 22 Gbps tri-band Wi-Fi 7 and dual 10GbE networking

Wallys Communications' DR5424 is a new embedded router board powered by a Qualcomm IPQ5424 quad-core Cortex-A55 SoC (aka Dragonwing NPro A7 Platform) and offering tri-band Wi-Fi 7 connectivity up to around 22 Gbps, along with two 10 GbE RJ45 ports and four 2.5GbE RJ45 ports for wired networking. Based on Qualcomm AP.MI01.2 reference design, the board also features 4GB or 8GB DDR4 memory, 256MB NAND flash, and 32MB NOR flash, as well as a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, and JTAG and serial debug ports. Target applications include Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) access points, Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, and HD streaming and gaming.   Qualcomm AP.MI01.2 specifications: SoC - Qualcomm IPQ5424 (Qualcomm Dragonwing NPro A7 Platform / NPA7) CPU - Quad-Core Cortex-A53 "Marina" processor @ up to 1.5 GHz (Wallys) or 1.8 GHz (Qualcomm and Compex) Accelerator - Integrated accelerator designed for AI models specific to Wi-Fi and

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 Hacker NewsJan 25
Two Weeks Until Tapeout
https://essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout/
#ycombinator #asic #gf180 #180nm #rtl #verilog #JTAG #DFT #systolic_array #arithmetic
Two weeks until tapeout

Chronicles of a bad idea. Or how I designed a systolic array with in-silicon debug infrastructure from scratch in under two weeks, and taped it out on Global Foundry 180 nm though a Tiny Tapeout experimental shuttle.

Tales on the wire
Dirt Cheap Hacking ToolsJan 15

On sale now: the Dirt Cheap J-Link Adapter

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