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I got a ATWINC-1510 based device in front of me where I want to dump the firmware / flash contents from into a bin file.
I know that the IC offers an SPI interface through the pins described in the datasheet. On the site of flash ROM I did not find any information whether flash ROM is capable of downloading the binary contents of the flash memory. Basically I was unsure as it is not a pure flash chip but like a microcontroller.
Would appreciate any help on this.
cobz
In the datasheet that you provided are links to more reference documents. One of them is ATWINC1500 Wi-Fi Network Controller Software Design Guide. In chapter 13 is described the WINC Serial Flash Memory, including how to access it.
In case that this doesnt work you can also disassemble ATWINC-1510 module and find direct access to the flash IC and read content from there.
m2m_wifi_download_mode(); to set the chip to download mode. I suppose it is mostly referring wiring up a certain debug type of the WINC to this Xplainer debug board by Atmel and interacting over the Atmel studio then right? I am wondering now, how can I send these commands to the bare metal chip without the debug hardware? For example with an ESP or Arduino as a SPI bridge, or the SPI hooked to a pi which I would normally use with the flashrom util.
m2m_wifi_download_mode function, which is now included in the driver C files. When I for example wire up SPI between an ESP8266 and the WINC1510, will calling the functions on the ESP8266 directly interact over SPI? Probably not right? So how does these driver files know how to reach the chip. I am also a little bit confused as this MPLAB Harmony is again a referencing to these debug boards. I cannot find an example to interact directly with it.