st25tb_kiemul

ST25TB / SRx NFC Emulator / Initiator based on TI TRF7970A with MSP430

This is the support project for ST25TB series NFC tags for fun in French public transports - ST25TB_transport.pdf

Note: This project now supports st25tb_kiemul (including the LP-MSP430FR2476), st25tb_kameleon and st25tb_kiwi boards

Project

st25tb_kiemul project is ready for Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio (CCS) IDE 12+, https://www.ti.com/tool/CCSTUDIO. You can use the local IDE or the online one (CCS Cloud). As TI is switching from Eclipse-based IDE to Theia, it has been also tested with CCS 20.4.

Supported configurations

Initial

• LP-MSP430FR2476 + DLP-7970ABP with configuration st25tb_kiemul - MSP @ 16 MHz, CR2032 battery compatible!
• *MSP430* + DLP-7970ABP with new configuration to create (feel free to adapt :))

Do NOT underestimate this basic configuration. Despite the lack of led indicators: MSP430FR2476 has a lot of FRAM memory, the integrated eZ-FET lite provides the same CLI as the most recent boards.

Boards

To practice, for POCs, and for the lulz, I finally made boards to play with:

• The initial one, st25tb_kiemul, was made to be 100% compatible with the launchpad + daughter board firmware (no CLI support)
  > https://oshwlab.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kiemul
• The second one, st25tb_kameleon, supports LIR2032 battery, USB power and battery charging
  > https://oshwlab.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kameleon
• The third (and last) one, st25tb_kiwi, supports LIR2032, LP401730 & LP402535 batteries, USB-C power and battery charging, CLI
  > https://oshwlab.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kiwi

Flash

You can program your board from the IDE itself, but .hex files produced/downloaded can also be used with MSP430Flasher (https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP430-FLASHER) or UniFlash (https://www.ti.com/tool/UNIFLASH).

No MSP-FET required when using LaunchPad boards, as they embed an eZ-FET lite emulator. On other configurations you may need MSP-FET to flash the board, but you can also use the embedded eZ-FET lite from another Launchpad board you already have :)

Examples:

• MSP430Flasher -i TIUSB -n MSP430FR2476 -z [VCC,RESET] -e ERASE_ALL -v -w st25tb_kiemul-MSP430FR2476.hex

Notes:

• replace -i TIUSB by -i COM<number> when dealing with multiple boards connected at the same time ;
• do not hesitate to press the reset button again after flashing.

How to use it?

Wiki: https://github.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kiemul/wiki

Remarks

• Yep, I recreated ~1% of a Chameleon like stuff :')
• Yep, I'm happy with it: I did it for myself to learn (& for fun)
• No, I'm not confident to be able to help to add 14B(') to https://github.com/emsec/ChameleonMini/tree/master/Firmware/Chameleon-Mini/Codec
  • otherwise I would have done it
• No, I will not create a single board with battery from available schematics of MSP430 LaunchPad & TRF7970A BoosterPack
  • well, maybe?
  • well, I did (and learned a lot)
• Yes, you can use other (better) MCU with the TRF7970A, even with the original DLP-7970ABP board
  • think about STM32, Raspberry PI Pico or your prefered one with SPI support, really

Hardware references

• LP-MSP430FR2476 - https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/595-LP-MSP430FR2476
  • Board: https://www.ti.com/tool/LP-MSP430FR2476
  • Chip: https://www.ti.com/product/MSP430FR2476
• DLP-7970ABP - https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/595-DLP-7970ABP
  • Board: https://www.ti.com/tool/DLP-7970ABP
  • Chip: https://www.ti.com/product/TRF7970A
• st25tb_kiemul
  • Board: https://oshwlab.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kiemul
  • Chip: https://www.ti.com/product/MSP430FR2476
• st25tb_kameleon
  • Board: https://oshwlab.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kameleon
  • Chip: https://www.ti.com/product/MSP430FR2673
• st25tb_kiwi
  • Board: https://oshwlab.com/gentilkiwi/st25tb_kiwi
  • Chip: https://www.ti.com/product/MSP430FR2676

Authors

Benjamin DELPY 🥝 gentilkiwi, you can contact me on Twitter ( @gentilkiwi ) or by mail ( benjamin [at] gentilkiwi.com )
Tear off part is 99% the (crazy) work of @SecLabz, see his repository https://github.com/SecLabz/near-field-chaos for more information, and functionalities! ❤️

This is a personal development, please respect its philosophy and don't use it for bad things!

License

CC BY 4.0 licence - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/