tools: a hardware harness, so a board can be proven and not just a protocol

check.sh proves the protocol under simavr on every chip; it cannot prove a
board. Two things live only on silicon — an RC oscillator that is not on its
nominal, and a reset edge that has to come from somewhere — and until now the
scripts that reached them were per-session scratch on the machine holding the
programmer, which is where the ATtiny13A run's findings nearly stayed.

pbrig.py is the primitives, knowing nothing per-board: every deployment fact is
a flag or a PUREBOOT_* variable. Two rig facts are encoded in it because neither
is guessable and each cost a session to learn: an ISP access *is* the reset edge
where the adapter's DTR is unwired, so a session begins with an ISP touch and
knocks immediately after; and avrdude splits -U on colons, so a Windows drive
letter breaks the spec and every file goes as a bare name with avrdude run in
its own directory. Its `rate` subcommand is the one that turns "the loader is
silent, so the wiring must be wrong" into a number, by sweeping the host rate
against a fixed cycles-per-bit transmitter — PUREBOOT_HEARTBEAT makes the
existing fixture into one, software link only, since the hardware-link idle owes
the self-update tests its command loop.

pbhw.py takes every bound from the info block the loader reports, so one run
covers a 1 KiB tiny and a 128 KiB mega alike. Both are exercised on an ATtiny13A:
backup verified against a known-good capture, the clock measured at 9.048 MHz
against a 9.6 MHz nominal, and the suite 11/11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -117,8 +117,27 @@ struct link<C, false> {
}
[[noreturn]] static void idle()
{
#if defined(PUREBOOT_HEARTBEAT)
// Repeat the banner forever, which turns the fixture into a fixed
// cycles-per-bit transmitter: `tools/pbrig.py rate` sweeps the host rate
// against it to find the part's true bit rate, and from that the clock
// its RC oscillator is really running at. Only the *bit* timing carries
// the measurement — the delay merely spaces the lines out, so its own
// error does not matter. Software link only: the hardware-link idle owes
// the self-update tests a command loop, and a crystal deployment has
// nothing to measure.
while (true) {
tx('A');
tx('P');
tx('P');
tx('\r');
tx('\n');
dev::delay<50_ms>();
}
#else
while (true) {
}
#endif
}
};