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GHI Electronics,LLC Embedded Master User Manual
Updating Embedded Master Firmware
If the firmware is running and you ping using MFDeploy, you will get a different response
“TinyCLR”.
Now, click “Browse...” button and direct MFDeploy to firmware HEX files (“CLR.HEX”...etc).
The other files with “sig” extension must exist in the same folder where the HEX files are.
We can now start deploying the firmware by clicking “Deploy”
Loading the files takes about one minute. When complete, the firmware will execute.
Double check the version number to make sure the correct firmware is loaded.
Loading new firmware will not erase the deployed managed application. If you need to
erase the managed application click “Erase” button.
One of the great features of MFDeploy is authenticating loaded files. MFDeploy uses
public/private keys to verify files. This is a good feature for companies who want to make
sure they are the only ones who can load applications on the system. MFDeploy explains
this feature in details.
8.2. Updating TinyBooter
Embedded Master Module implements a software from Microsoft, called TinyBooter. This
software can be used to update the Embedded Master firmware. Updating firmware is
explained in the previous section.
Usually, a user would never need to update TinyBooter as it is not used in the final
application but for the very rare cases specially when changing to different .NET micro
Framework version - e.g. 2.5 to 3.0 -, there is a way to update it.
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