New protocol decoder: USB request

Submitted by Uwe Hermann on Thu, 01/07/2016 - 23:40

libsigrokdecode has received support for another, quite interesting protocol decoder recently: usb_request.

This PD stacks on top of the usb_packet decoder, which in turn stacks on top of usb_signalling.

It decodes USB transactions / requests from the packets received from the usb_packet decoder:

 $ sigrok-cli -i olimex_stm32-h103_usb_hid.sr \
   -P usb_signalling:dp=DP:dm=DM,usb_packet,\
   usb_request
 BULK in: [ 00 01 00 00 ] : ACK
 BULK in: [ 00 01 00 00 ] : ACK
 BULK in: [ 00 01 00 00 ] : ACK

As usual, there are a bunch of sample files in sigrok-dumps, and some test-cases in the sigrok-test repo. Further files and test-cases are welcome!

In addition to emitting annotations (for displaying in GUIs), the PD also supports (currently) one SRD_OUTPUT_BINARY output type named "pcap".

This will emit the decoded data in the widely-used PCAP format, which you can then further process in other tools such as Wireshark:

 $ sigrok-cli -i olimex_stm32-h103_usb_hid.sr -P usb_signalling:dp=DP:dm=DM,usb_packet,\
   usb_request -B usb_request=pcap > foo.pcap

Of course you could also pipe the PCAP data directly into Wireshark as well:

 $ sigrok-cli -i olimex_stm32-h103_usb_hid.sr -P usb_signalling:dp=DP:dm=DM,usb_packet,\
   usb_request -B usb_request=pcap | wireshark -k -i -

The protocol decoder was contributed by Stefan Brüns, thanks a lot!