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EEPROM CH341A programmer – Read

and write data to chip on Linux
16 September 2022 by Lubos Rendek

In this tutorial we will use CH341A programmer to read, write and erase data/
firmware on attached chip. This is your getting started guide to CH341A
programmer. CH341A programmer allows users to attach variety of chips in order
to read or backup firmware or overwrite the exiting firmware.

In this tutorial you will learn:

• How to compile ch341eeprom software

• How to read data from chip via CH341A
• How to write data to chip via CH341A
• How to erase data from chip via CH341A

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EEPROM CH341A programmer – Read and write data to chip on Linux

Software Requirements and Linux Command Line Conventions

Category Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used

System Debian/Ubuntu

Software ch341eeprom

Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo

Other
command.

# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root

privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
Conventions
$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular
non-privileged user

EEPROM CH341A programmer on Linux

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There is a plentiful of software available on Linux to deal with EEPROM CH341A

programmer. Many of them are available via standard Debian repository such as
flashrom .

However, after multiple attempts I have not been able to use any of the tools to
recognise my CH341A programmer and the chip. After days of searching I have
settled with ch341eeprom software.

Step 1 Let’s get started with all prerequisites:

# apt install git make libusb-1.0-0-dev clang

Step 2 In the next step we will clone the ch341eeprom repository.

git clone https://github.com/plumbum/ch341eeprom.git

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Step 3 Now navigate to a directory and execute the make command to compile
the source code:

$ cd ch341eeprom
$ make

Step 4 Once you have compiled the software locate the executable ch341eeprom .
Feel free to execute the newly compiled software now. The output should look as
follows:

$ ./ch341eeprom
ch341eeprom - an i2c EEPROM programming tool for the WCH CH341a IC
Version 0.5 copyright (c) 2011 asbokid <[email protected]>

This program comes with absolutely no warranty; This is free software,

and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions:
GNU GPL v3 License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Usage:
-h, --help display this text
-v, --verbose verbose output
-d, --debug debug output
-s, --size size of EEPROM {24c01|24c02|24c04|24c08|24c16|24c32|24c64|24c128|24c256|24c
-e, --erase erase EEPROM (fill with 0xff)
-w, --write write EEPROM with image from filename
-r, --read read EEPROM and save image to filename

Example: ch341eeprom -v -s 24c64 -w bootrom.bin

Step 5 Insert the EEPROM CH341A programmer with the chip into the USB

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port. Following the above example execute the following commands while
changing command arguments to fit your needs:

READ(backup) CHIP with size 24c32

$ ./ch341eeprom -v -s 24c32 -r firmware.bin

WRITE to CHIP with size 24c128

$ ./ch341eeprom -v -s 24c128 -w firmware.bin

ERASE chip with size 24c128

$ ./ch341eeprom -v -s 24c128 -e

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Write firmware with EEPROM CH341A programmer

Conclusion
In this tutorial, we saw how to read, write and erase data on the chip using
EEPROM CH341A programmer. As already mentioned I was unable to use
standard tools like flashrom to access chip via CH341A programmer. If you have
different experience or other tools to work with EEPROM CH341A programmer
leave the comments below.

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Comments and Discussions

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5 replies

Luigi_Provencher April 2023

“make” doesn’t work for me so what next?

1 reply

Jose_C ▶ Luigi_Provencher May 2023

Using Debian Bullseye here, the warning/error messages that I got and how I made it work:
Warning: ch341funcs.c:61:5 warning ‘libusb_set_debug’ is deprecated…
Fix: Open/Edit “ch341funcs.c” and go to line 61 and change “libusb_set_debug” to
“libusb_set_option”, keep this file open, don’t close it yet…
Error: clang: error: multiple definition of ‘readbuf’…
Fix: at the same file “ch341funcs.c” search for “readbuf” and replace it for something that
makes sense, “readbuf” means “read buffer” so that’s what I did, replace “readbuf” to
“readbuffer”, make sure that you replace it in this three lines, line 34, line 256 and line 320.
Save the file and try again, it will compile at the first attempt.

1 reply

IVAN_KOSOLAPOV ▶ Jose_C September 2023

Please see my universal (93xxx, 24xxx, 25xxx chips supported) linux program _github.com/
bigbigmdm/IMSProg

1 reply

IVAN_KOSOLAPOV ▶ IVAN_KOSOLAPOV September 2023

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