FFP: Flash/FPGA Programmer

FFP is a dead-simple USB to bidirectional SPI bridge for programming iCE40 FPGAs and their SPI flash. The hardware is an STM32F042 and not much else. Firmware and host software is written in Rust.

The firmware additionally supports SWD via the CMSIS-DAP v1 protocol, so many debuggers such as probe-rs, OpenOCD, and pyOCD are able to use an FFP to debug and program Cortex-M and other microcontrollers.

See software/ for the host-side software, firmware/ for the embedded device firmware, and hardware/ for the hardware design files.

Pinout

The FFP r1 hardware uses a 5x2 pin 0.05"-pitch connector, which is also commonly used for Cortex family microcontrollers for SWD and JTAG. The pinout is deliberately compatible (though note RESET is moved) to allow hardware reuse and for compatibility with tools such as TagConnect cables.

          ______
    3v3 --|1  2|-- FLASH DI / FPGA DO / SWDIO
    GND --|3  4|-- CLK / SWCLK
    GND --|5  6|-- CS / SWO
   NULL --|7  8|-- FPGA nRST
    GND --|9 10|-- FLASH DO / FPGA DI / nRESET
          ------

This is the same pinout used by amp_flashprog, a custom firmware for Black Magic Probes to bitbang SPI to the same ends.

Licence

Software and firmware is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Hardware design files are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).