Bench gear
Saleae, sigrok-compatible and other logic analyzers that an agent uses to capture and decode digital buses such as SPI, I2C and UART.
The most active tools first.
18 d ago
Tramuntana is an open bench tool built on the RP2350 (Raspberry Pi Pico 2) and Zephyr that works over one USB cable. It has SPI and I2C master and sniffer modes, a 2-channel 500 kS/s scope, a waveform generator, an 8-channel logic analyzer and a UART bridge. Its Python package adds an MCP server. The README shows no captures.
18 d ago
AWIC controls FX2-based USB logic analyzers and oscilloscopes that sigrok supports, from a Rust server with native USB drivers. Agents reach it through MCP, people through a web UI and scripts through an SCPI socket; it also switches USB hub port power. It runs on Linux and was built with Claude Code. The README says every feature works on hardware.
38 d ago
EmbeddedCI's BenchPod plugins connect Claude Code and Codex to a BenchPod, the company's hardware-in-the-loop tester wired to the board under test. One MCP server has tools to flash over SWD, power-cycle and capture the boot log, emulate I2C sensors, capture logic and analog signals and talk CAN. The vendor README lists the tools but shows no runs.
47 d ago
ATK-Logic-MCP connects MCP clients such as Claude Code to the ALIENTEK ATK-Logic-Analyzer, a 16-channel USB logic analyzer. It captures at up to 200 MHz, decodes buses with the 208 sigrok decoders from the vendor install and reads or writes vendor archives. The README says the USB protocol was reverse-engineered from vendor source and checked against the device.
57 d ago
Agent Fingers runs on a stock Raspberry Pi Pico 2 as a signal instrument and CMSIS-DAP debug probe for AI agents. It offers eight digital channels, ADC capture, PWM, UART, I2C and SPI, plus SWD and JTAG for STM32 and ESP32 targets. Outputs need an expiring arm lease. The README shows no hardware runs.
5 mo ago
Active Firmware Tools connected Claude Code to its Active-Pro logic analyzer and firmware debugger through an MCP server over TCP. In the two-minute video the agent triggers a capture on a custom board with three FPGAs running RISC-V soft cores. It reads firmware trace output alongside RGMII, USB enumeration and SCSI traffic and checks it for errors.
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2 mo ago
Espressif published a four-hour workshop on using AI coding agents in Cursor or VS Code for ESP-IDF v6.0.2 work on an ESP32-C5-DevKitC. Six assignments cover agent setup with the Espressif documentation MCP server, spec-driven prompts, token use and debugging. An optional exercise decodes LED frames from a Saleae Logic 2 capture. We found no captures or photos.
5 mo ago
Dimdim had Gemini 3.1 Pro write the Verilog for an audio reclocker on a MAX 10 10M08 board. He pasted code from the chat into Quartus. The design passes I2S through a dual-clock FIFO, adds DSD and S/PDIF input and buffers in PSRAM. Gemini, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7 all failed to make a PRBS-15 test work.
15 mo ago
BootLoop, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 startup founded by Noah Pacik-Nelson and Chris Markus, is building an AI agent that writes and tests firmware. The company says the agent reads datasheets and schematics, then validates code on customer boards with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and debug probes. In pilots, its own engineers run the agent and a person reviews every line.
