RS232 cable adapter. The example below shows a board with STC topology and STNRG328S mounted. The design is based on X7R components (switch capacitors and resonant inductors) for rate conversion 4:1 (from 48 V input bus to 12 V Vout), able to deliver 1 kW power in server applications.
– 1 USB port Installation file CDM v2.12.00 WHQL Certified.exe for FTDI driver for USB 2.0 to serial UART converter. The file can be downloaded from ST.com at the STEVAL-ILL077V1 evaluation tool firmware page in the STSW-ILL077FW_SerialLoader subdirectory. – Connect the USB /UART cable of into the PC and motherboard. The first time the cable is connected to the PC, the FTDI USB serial converter driver should be found and installed automatically.
UM2988 Tools and instruments Archive file Flash Loader Demonstrator.7z, required to install the ST serial flash loader on the PC. The file can be downloaded from ST.com at the STEVAL-ILL077V1 evaluation tool firmware page in the STSW-ILL077FW_SerialLoader subdirectory. – After having installed the toolset, run the executable file STFlashLoader.exe. The screen shown in the figure below will appear.
The pinout of the device is shown below: Figure 4. STNRG328S pinout Set the pins as specified in the following table: Table 1. STNRG328S pin settings Jumper reference Set position Pin 13 (VDDA) +3.3V / +5V on board supplied PIN 29 VDD +3.3V / +5V on board supplied...
UM2988 Downloading firmware Downloading firmware For the reprogramming of the EEPROM memory of the STNRG328S device, we will refer to the X7R-1kW board shown in Figure 1. The stsw-stc firmware is considered already installed. The board uses Pin 1 and Pin 32 as UART. The firmware configures these shared I2C pins as UART because it needs to enable the bootloader through UART.
Power the board OFF and ON and immediately (less than 1 s) press the [Next] button in the figure above. The following screen will appear if successful connection between the PC and the board has been established. Figure 7. ST Flash Loader – successful connection UM2988 - Rev 1 page 7/16...
From dialog-box in the above figure, select STNRG from the [Target] list. A new window will appear with the memory map of the non-volatile memory. Figure 8. ST Flash Loader – STNRG NVM map UM2988 - Rev 1 page 8/16...
[Download to Device] – in [Download from file], browse to the file to download into the SNRG328S memory. – select the [Global Erase] option. Figure 9. ST Flash Loader – STNRG programming settings UM2988 - Rev 1 page 9/16...
ST Flash Loader – STNRG programming complete You can verify the correct binary has been downloaded by checking that the data&code checksum of the firmware matches the release. This procedure is explained in STC Checksum Implemetation.docx available on ST.com. UM2988 - Rev 1 page 10/16...
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