Agilent PCIe Protocol Analyzer Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering the N5305A/N5306A family of PCIe protocol analyzers and their host software.

Repository contents

• doc:

• agilent\_pad.ksy: A Kaitai Struct definition

file for the Agilent PAD file format.

• pad-files: Sample PCIe capture files in Agilent PAD (Protocol

Analyzer Data) format.

• tools:

• agilent\_pad: A Rust library and tools for parsing and

converting Agilent PAD PCIe capture files to PCAP-NG. The PCAP-NG files generated by the pad2pcapng tool can be dissected in Wireshark using the PCIe dissector.

• cap\_tool.py: A Python tool for parsing Agilent PAD PCIe

capture files. This tool is much slower than the Rust version, and will not be developed further.

• wireshark: A Wireshark dissector that can parse PCAP-NG files

containing PCIe capture data.

Related projects

• Nox: A set of FOSS tools, utilities, and libraries for PCI-Express

analyzers.

License

Except where otherwise noted:

• All software in this repository is made available under the

GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

• All copyrightable content that is not software (e.g., reverse engineering

notes, this README file, etc.) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.