Announcing NORbert, an open source SPI NOR flash emulator

NORbert is an open source alternative to the Dediprog EM100Pro . If you do firmware development you probably know the EM100: you plug it in where a SPI NOR flash chip sits, load a firmware image over USB and it pretends to be a real flash chip to the SoC. It's great but it costs around $500 which is a lot if you just want to hack on open source firmware. The FPGA with SDRAM board attached to an…