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The Firmware Update Tool is designed to provide the user with a mechanism to update firmware on the device. This tool provides two buttons, Interrupt and Abort and three Menus of commands, File, Update and Help.
The Abort Button allows the user to abort the tool.
The Interrupt Button allows the user to interrupt the tool.
The File Menu allows the user to select a file to use to update the firmware on the device and to exit the tool.
The Update Menu allows the user to start the firmware update on the device using the selected file.
The Help Menu provides access to this help information.
See the help topic Firmware Update Tool Menus for specific information concerning each Menu or use the File, Update or Help hyperlinks in these above paragraphs.
See the help topic Firmware Update Tool Buttons for specific information concerning the buttons or use the Interrupt or Abort hyperlinks in the above paragraphs.
The Main Window for the Firmware Update Tool offers two buttons:
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The Abort button allows the user to abort the tool.
The tool will be requested to abort and the state of the tool execution in the system map will be set to ABORT_PENDING. When the tool actually exits, it's state will be set to ABORTED.
The Interrupt button allows the user to interrupt the tool.
When the tool receives the interrupt, it stops whatever it is doing and asks you if you want to continue with the operation. If the reply is "Continue", the tool resumes what it was doing at the time of the interrupt. If the reply is "Abort", it terminates the operation and returns to the Main Window.
The tool may not immediately receive the interrupt as it could be in the middle of an operation that should not or cannot be interrupted. The interrupt will be received as soon as the tool completes the operation.
All the commands are interruptable excepting the start update command.
The tool will receive and ignore user interrupts when it is already in the process of returning to the Main Window.
The Main Window for the Firmware Update Tool offers three menus:
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The File Menu allows the user to select a file to use to update the firmware on the device and display the information related to the file and to exit the tool.
The File Menu has two commands:
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The Select File command is used to select the file to use to perform the firmware update.
Once a file is selected, the following information related to that file will be displayed:
The Firmware Revision number. It is a value within decimal 256. It is the 8th byte in the FW data. It is used for revision control.
This command can be used to scan several files to determine the appropriate file to use for the firmware update.
Use the Start Update... command to perform the firmware update.
The Exit command is used to leave the firmware update tool.
The Update Menu allows the user to start the firmware update on the device using the selected file.
The Update Menu has only one selection:
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The Start Update command is used to start the firmware update process using the selected file.
If a file has not yet been selected using the Select File... command, this command will ask the user to select a file in the same manner as if the user had selected the Select File command.
This command will request that the user confirm continuation of the firmware update before actually performing the update.
If the option to activate the firmware immediately is selected then the device will be reset after downloading the firmware to activate the new firmware else the firmware is activated at the time of rebooting.
It is a better practise to avoid abort command in the middle of the firmware update command.
The Help Menu has two commands:
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The General Help command starts this help interaction.
The Version command displays the version and copyright information for the firmware update tool.