CATC USB Chief driver

This is a reverse engineering effort to make the driver work on a 64-bit machine (it should also work on 32-bit). The driver was reverse engineerd using IDA Pro and Ghidra.

Pictures

Some pictures of it working on a 64-bit Windows 11 machine

Open issues

• Driver has code that looks very janky (most of it is gone now)
• On some hardware the USB Chief doesnt return anything after the first device descriptor, configuration descriptor requests Windows does (happened Windows server 2019)

USB chief limitations

• The software doesnt show anything when a High-Speed USB device is connected (banged my head against that)

How to build

1. Install cmake, Visual studio and windows DDK (I installed 7600.16385.1)
2. Open VScode (with cmake tools installed)
3. Change the SDK_ROOT SDK path in CMakeLists.txt to your installed location
4. Change Kit to "Visual studio xxxxxx amd64"
5. Press build (or keyboard shortcut F7)
6. Change $WinDDKRoot in sign_driver.ps1 to the same path as SDK_ROOT
7. Run powershell as admin
8. Run sign_driver.ps1
9. Install driver using pnputil, right clicking usbchief.inf or using the device manager

Original software

The original software can be found at Teledynelecroy. Search for in the archived downloads chief

Extra note

This also fixes the bug that was patched using a lower driver. If someone from Teledynelecroy wants to sign and release the driver that would be great 👍