Flash firmware to devices running Microchip's 16-bit bootloader.
Project description
mcbootflash
Mcbootflash is a tool for flashing firmware to 16-bit Microchip MCUs and DSPs from the PIC24 and dsPIC33 families of devices, which are running a bootloader generated by the MPLAB Code Configurator tool.
Microchip provides an official GUI tool for this purpose, called the Unified Bootloader Host Application. Mcbootflash is intended to be a drop-in replacement, with some differences:
- No GUI
- Free and open source
- Written in Python instead of Java
Additionally, mcbootflash is can be used as a library by applications which want to implement firmware flashing as part of a larger suite of features. See the documentation for details.
Installation
pip install mcbootflash
Usage
Once installed, mcbootflash can be run from the command line:
$ mcbootflash --port=/dev/ttyUSB0 --baudrate=460800 firmware.hex
Connecting to bootloader...
Connected
Flashing firmware.hex
Existing application detected, erasing...
No application detected; flash erase successful
100% 88.7 KiB |########################################| Elapsed Time: 0:00:05
Self verify OK
Copyright
MIT License, (C) 2022 Alexander Bessman
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