This manual provides the information that you need to use the stand-alone flash loader. It describes the operations that the flash loader can perform, and explains how to configure the flash loader to connect to an RSL10 radio IC. The stand-alone flash loader is used to program, erase and read flash memory in RSL10.
Figure 1. How the Stand-Alone Flash Loader Communicates with the Radio IC The RSL10 radio IC contains multiple sections, all of which can be managed by the stand-alone flash loader. See the RSL10 Hardware Reference Manual for more information about the sections.
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The stand-alone flash loader has several global options: These options control how the stand-alone flash loader communicates with the RSL10 radio IC. Device options See Section 2.3, “Supported Flash Loader Hardware” for information on these options.
RSL10 Stand-Alone Flash Loader Manual 2.2.1 Flash Regions When the flash loader is performing operations on user-specified regions of flash memory, a standard format is used to specify one or more ranges of addresses in flash memory. start-end,start-end,...,start-end Each address is a decimal or C-formatted hexadecimal address.
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RSL10 Stand-Alone Flash Loader Manual Table 2. Common Errors and Their Solutions Description of Error Possible Causes Possible Solutions No emulators connected to the USB You have not connected the J-Link Connect the J-link emulator, make sure window. Asks for IP address.
The Tools page allows you to erase and read the contents of flash memory. • The Options page allows you to control how the flash loader accesses the RSL10 radio IC. For a list of all the tasks you can do with this application, and where to find the corresponding graphical user interface or command line interface steps, see Table 1 on page 5.
3.3 T PTIONS Use the controls on the Options page (Figure 4) to control how the flash loader accesses the RSL10 radio IC. Figure 4. The Stand-Alone Flash Loader Options Page In the Device section of the page, you can select either a USB or Network J-Link device: •...
The stand-alone flash loader displays the progress dialog box shown in Figure 5 when performing any operation that communicates with the RSL10 radio IC. The dialog shows the current operation at the top, the overall progress in a progress bar, and various progress and status messages in the large text box.
To start the stand-alone flash loader from the command line, navigate to the location of the Flashloader.exe file in the RSL10 Utility Apps folder. Add the location of Flashloader.exe to the system PATH environment variable to allow easy access to this command.
RSL10 Stand-Alone Flash Loader Manual 4.1 T ROGRAM OMMAND Use the command to write the contents of a data file to flash memory. By default, the flashloader program command only erases the regions of flash memory that are being written. The...
RSL10 Stand-Alone Flash Loader Manual 4.3 T ERIFY OMMAND Use the command to perform two similar operations: flashloader verify Verify that a region of flash memory is erased. Verify that the contents of flash memory match the contents of a data file.
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