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Facet

The FACET port is a universal debugging port on all models of the Xbox One/Series-family.

Features:

  • SPI / eMMC
  • I2C
  • Kernel Debugging
  • Southbridge JTAG

A special development board is used to interact with this port. Some early development kits have the FACET circuitry on-board and feature a female USB-B port for connecting directly to a PC.

Connector

Label: J4E1 (Xbox One PHAT/Xbox One S) or J22 (Xbox One X)

Connector: IDC 2x13P 2.00mm

Pinout

  • SPI -> eMMC
  • SB_JTAG -> Southbridge JTAG
  • SMC_DBG -> SMC SWO Debug
  • KER_DBG -> Kernel Debugging
  • SMBUS -> I2C
Pin Description Description Pin
1 SMC_RST_N GND 2
3 SPI_MISO SPI_MOSI 4
5 SPI_SS_N GND 6
7 SPI_CLK GND 8
9 SB_JTAG_TDI SB_JTAG_TDO 10
11 SB_JTAG_TMS GND 12
13 SB_JTAG_TCK 3,3V STBY 14
15 SMC_DBG_LED0_SWO KER_DBG_CTS 16
17 KER_DBG_TXD KER_DBG_RTS 18
19 KER_DBG_RXD SMC_CTS 20
21 SMC_TXD SMC_RTS 22
23 SMC_RXD 3,3V STBY 24
25 SMBUS_CLK SMBUS_DATA 26

Xbox One PHAT

PHAT FACET Connector unpopulated PHAT FACET Connector populated

Xbox One S

Coming soon

Xbox One X

One X FACET Connector unpopulated One X FACET Connector populated

External PCB

Model: FACET2 FAB A

Part #: X877922-001

Parts:

  • FTDI FT4232
  • EEPROM
  • 4x 7-segment displays
  • 7-Segment LED controller IC (I2C address 0x38)
  • External SPI Device connector
  • External JTAG Programmer connector
  • Status LEDs

FACET2 PCB Front

FACET2 PCB Back

FACET2 connected to XDK

Software

The DLL dsmcdll.dll is used to talk to the FACET-hardware.

References

FACET2 PCB & smcdll.dll: AssemblerGames archive

Authors: Emily, jacksomness, tuxuser