Skip to end of banner
Go to start of banner

Features

Skip to end of metadata
Go to start of metadata

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 3 Next »

Features

  • Required for all standard loadable firmwares (*.NXF)

  • Boot loader program Size < 64 Kbyte binary code to allow loading via DPM on netX100/500

  • Serial COM support

  • USB / CDC support

  • DPM support (including host interrupt enabled in DPM mode)

  • Security FLASH read / write access to user data area

  • File System FAT based (format / read / write) on serial flash only

  • Standard DPM layout for "System Channel" and "Handshake Channel" (like defined in netX DPM Manual)

  • Extended read and write mailboxes for faster firmware download

  • System channel hardware information handling

  • Hardware independent (executed in netX internal memory)

  • Boot loader update

  • File System Restore from SD/MMC

  • License Update

Limitations

  • The boot loader does not include a FTL (Flash Translation Layer) and is limited to a FAT file system on the serial flashes only.
  • Wear-leveling is not available
  • For entering USB boot mode of the second stage loader, it is necessary to add an additional jumper/switch (see netX ROM Loader documentation on how to enter extension bus boot mode, to design your hardware)
  • Ethernet support not included
  • DMA data transfer not included
  • Firmware cannot be loaded into internal RAM, as this is used by boot loader
  • Only serial flashes with the feature "erase single pages" are supported (see list in appendix)
  • License codes currently not readable on a netX50 based hardware
  • License Updates can not be executed on a netX50/netX10/netX51 based hardware
  • SDRAM and DPM cannot be used simultaneously on netX10
  • No labels