diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/intelhex/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/intelhex/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9d0a7d08c0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/intelhex/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, fetchpatch
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "intelhex";
+  version = "2.1";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0k5l1mn3gv1vb0jd24ygxksx8xqr57y1ivgyj37jsrwpzrp167kw";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = https://github.com/bialix/intelhex/commit/f251aef214daa2116e15ff7f7dcec1639eb12d5b.patch;
+      sha256 = "02i15qjmcz7mwbwvyj3agl5y7098rag2iwypdilkaadhbslsl9b9";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/bialix/intelhex;
+    description = "Python library for Intel HEX files manipulations";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pjones ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 2c79dd2d60e..f58efccf48f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ in {
     hdf5 = pkgs.hdf5-mpi;
   };
 
+  intelhex = callPackage ../development/python-modules/intelhex { };
+
   mpi4py = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mpi4py {
     mpi = pkgs.openmpi;
   };