SFP Interface Adapter

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SFP devices for networking (fiber optic interfaces and captive network cables) use i2c EEPROMs to identify themselves.

There are a few projects and products out there to modify the contents of these EEPROMs, but it seems like a great candidate for a buspirate adapter.

Here is the great osmocom breakout (includes additional functionality): Sfp-experimenter - Misc Hardware Projects - Open Source Mobile Communications

And a few commercial products:

FiberStore also has a programmer (I’m new so only two links per post).

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Welcome!

Someone mentioned this in the live chat a few days ago. Sure. Is an adapter needed because if the modules have pins, then we can just clip on with probe hooks.

I think the primary utility would be a command to read and then decode the standard header formats.

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Thanks for the welcome and thank you for all of the awesome projects over the years.

The #1 reason for a breakout is the 0.8mm pin spacing of the dual sided card edge connector.

Here is another open source project, this one breaks everything out into a PMOD header: Open Source Pmod Designs