GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow
Scots Army Knife for electronics observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3146
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2202 stars · 266 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Glasgow Interface Explorer is an open-source software stack (Python-based) for the Glasgow open hardware tool, an FPGA-based USB interface explorer for communicating with digital devices. It provides 'applets' for protocols like SPI, I2C, UART, JTAG, SWD, memory chip programming, MCU debugging, and sensing.
Use cases
- talk to SPI and I2C chips from my computer
- debug an embedded board over SWD or JTAG
- dump and flash SPI flash memory chips
- reverse engineer a device's digital interfaces
- program AVR and iCE40 devices
- sniff UART and SPI traffic
- probe unknown JTAG pinouts
When to choose
- you own Glasgow hardware and need a reliable, scriptable Python toolchain for digital interfaces
- you need a Swiss-army tool for embedded debugging, memory manipulation, and protocol exploration
- you want an open-source alternative to proprietary debug probes and logic analyzers
When to avoid
- you don't have (or plan to buy) the Glasgow Interface Explorer hardware
- you need a pure software simulator or emulator without physical devices
- you need a turnkey commercial debugger with vendor support
Facets
application · maturity active
developer-tools embedded cli gui embedded-systems hardware reverse-engineering developer-tools windows bsd python cross-platform browser fpga debug-probe logic-analyzer spi i2c uart jtag swd open-hardware flash-programming protocol-explorer debugging linux macos
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow · fetched 2026-08-28 · a4388e94ba09
- homepage: https://glasgow-embedded.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c7fae93af9ba
- site_page: https://glasgow-embedded.org/en/install/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · ed559e7fd1d7
- site_page: https://glasgow-embedded.org/en/install/source.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d386b6b6e9da
- site_page: https://glasgow-embedded.org/en/install/binary.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · a4d51fe1bfe4
- site_page: https://glasgow-embedded.org/en/develop/docs.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 674976dab024
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow | main | 77 |
For agents
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