Hilscher offers different types of firmware with different feature sets.
| Firmware Type | LFW Variant | Features | supported DPM channels | external memory required
SQI Fash, SDRAM | Flash Layout |
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| Type 1 | Legacy Fieldbus | - Legacy Fieldbus
PROFIBUS, ...
| | not required | use case A, B | | Type 2 | Real Time Ethernet | - Real-Time Ethernet
PROFINET, EthernetIP, EtherCAT, OpenModbus TCP, ... - Basic Webserver
for Firmwareupdate over network, Web Interface API
| | not required | use case A, B | | Type 3 | Real Time Ethernet
+ Webserver | - Real-Time Ethernet
PROFINET, EthernetIP, EtherCAT - Extended Web Server
Basic functionality plus webpage content delivery from flash filesystem
| | yes | use case C | | Type 4 | Real Time Ethernet
+ IIoT | - Real-Time Ethernet
PROFINET, EthernetIP, EtherCAT - Extended Web Server
Basic functionality plus webpage content delivery from flash filesystem - IIoT MQTT/ OPC UA
OPC-UA server via netPROXY Interface, MQTT client via netPROXY Interface
MQTT will not be supported in the first version of this LFW
| - channel 0
- channel 1
- channel 2
| yes | use case C |
LFW Software Structure
Type 4: Full feature set including IIoT
Type 3: Real-Time Ethernet plus extended Webserver
 Type 2: Plain Real-Time Ethernet Functinality, including basic Webserver
Flash Layout use cases
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