a free 13.56MHz RFID reader design

Oktober 11, 2008

http://www.openpcd.org/releases.0.html

Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt near Berlin (Aug.2007)

• Practical RFID Attacks: writing, sniffing & emulating 13.56MHz RFID tags with OpenPCD and OpenPICC hardware

foss.in 2006 India/Bangalore (2006.11.24)

• First Part: OpenPCD introduction and firmware architecture
• Second Part: OpenPCD hardware description

OpenPCD second release (latest, verified)

• Schematic and pcb layout overview (openpcd_v04.zip)
• Gerber files for pcb production (openpcd_v04_gerber.zip)
• Bill of materials (openpcd_v04_bom.pdf)
• Component placement overview (openpcd_v04_place.pdf)

OpenPCD first release

• Schematic and pcb layout overview (openpcd_v03.zip)
• Gerber files for pcb production (openpcd_v03_gerber.zip)
• Bill of materials (openpcd_v03_bom.pdf)

• Download the latest ISO Image
• burn it on a CD/DVD
• boot from it
• this boot CD allows firmware updates of the OpenPCD RFID Card reader and some initial tests
• important included tools are librfid-tool, sam7, at91flash, dfu-programmer, lsusb and nano
• the most important firmware imges are in /root
• the username is root with no password set

Firmware Version 262 (latest)

• whole-flash image (for SAM-BA: dumbreader.samba, main_reqa.samba)
• DFU bootloader (dfu.bin)
• dumb reader (main_dumbreader.bin)
• reqa (main_reqa.bin)
• pwm (main_pwm.bin)
• analog (main_analog.bin)

Firmware Version 220

• whole-flash image (for SAM-BA) (dumbreader.samba)
• DFU bootloader (dfu.bin)
• dumb reader (main_dumbreader.bin)
• reqa (main_reqa.bin)

USB DFU utility

• Version 0.3.0-hmw4 Source Code Patch
• Version 0.3.0-hmw2 Source Code Patch

USB firmware update utility sam7utils

• Version 0.1.0-bm