UPGRADING APPLICATION FIRMWARE BY USB STICK

[sami]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 17:16

HELLO

I  want to upgrade the fırware of my design by usb stick , I am using the example given with the discovery board where I need a binary image of my Project  myproject.BIN,

I am using keil so I can generate hex file of my Project , how can I convert hex file to binary file inorder to use it?

Thank you

[John F.]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 17:26

Intel HEX to BINARY File Converter Utility

http://www.keil.com/download/docs/7.asp

http://www.hex2bin.com/hex2bin/

[sami]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 18:02

Thank you john ,

but I use 64 bit system I does not work .

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 18:10

My ELFARM tool should work from the command line, and takes AXF files and converts to hex and binary.

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[sami]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 18:24

Thank you Clive   I could  not make it work , could you explain a little how to do that ?

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 18:32

It runs from the command line, thus

ELFARM C:\STM32Seminar\32L152CDISCOVERY\Firmware\STM32L_Discovery_FW\Projects\HelloWorld\MDK-ARM\STM32L-Discovery\STM32L-Discovery.axf

This will generate a bunch of screen output, it's an ELF file dumping tool, when it finishes there will be the files ELFARM.BIN/.HEX/.MOT/.TEK in the directory from which you ran the tool.

[sami]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 18:46

Thank you now I could generate the bin file , but after downloading the program did not work !

Do I need to set something related to the address in myproject firware ?

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 19:38

The base address for the data in the .BIN will be whatever you set up the compiler/linker to generate.

You could examine the file with your preferred file viewer or hex editor.

[sami]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 19:46

In keil .. options -linker I set R/O base to 0x08008000, but no way .. still not working .

Any suggestion please ?

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on June 13, 2013 at 20:32

Break out the debugger for your boot loader and step in. Follow the transition from the boot loader into the app code. Make a more clear determination of what is going wrong.

Check what's stored at 0x08008000 and confirm it matches what you expect.

[sami]

Posted on June 14, 2013 at 15:52

Thank you clive .. but still not solved .

let me explain what i am doing . I have two codes the first is firmware upgrade from usb stick it is the same as the discovery board i just changed the entery to the boot mode.

int main(void) 
{ 
/* STM32 evalboard user initialization */ 
BSP_Init(); 
/* Flash unlock */ 
FLASH_If_FlashUnlock(); 
/* Test if User button on the Discovery kit is pressed */ 
//if (STM_EVAL_PBGetState(BUTTON_USER) == Bit_RESET) 
if(GPIO_ReadInputDataBit(GPIOE, GPIO_Pin_0)==1)// 
{ 
/* Check Vector Table: Test if user code is programmed starting from address 
''APPLICATION_ADDRESS'' */ 
if (((*(__IO uint32_t*)APPLICATION_ADDRESS) & 0x2FFE0000 ) == 0x20000000) 
{ 
/* Jump to user application */ 
JumpAddress = *(__IO uint32_t*) (APPLICATION_ADDRESS + 4); 
Jump_To_Application = (pFunction) JumpAddress; 
/* Initialize user application's Stack Pointer */ 
__set_MSP(*(__IO uint32_t*) APPLICATION_ADDRESS); 
Jump_To_Application(); 
} 
} 
/* Init Host Library */ 
USBH_Init(&USB_OTG_Core, USB_OTG_FS_CORE_ID, &USB_Host, &USBH_MSC_cb, &USR_Callbacks); 
while (1) 
{ 
/* Host Task handler */ 
USBH_Process(&USB_OTG_Core, &USB_Host); 
} 
}

the second code is my Project code but in the linker option of keil I checked the option '' USE MEMORYLAYOUT FROM TARGET DIALOG'' in the target option of keil under read/only memory area i checked the option IROM1 start 0x8008000 size 0xf8000 and set #define VECT_TAB_OFFSET 0x8000 after i generate the bin file of my Project i see that the binary code set the address to 0x800819D NOT 0x8008000! but when i debug the bootloader program i can see that the program jumps to 0x800819D, but my application program does not run ! What is wrong here ? Could you please guide me to fix this headache? Regards Esat