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EC2DRV
  • Read / Write microprocessors Flash memory
  • Source level debugging
  • Aims to support all Silicon Labs CIP-51 core processors






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Firmware tools

This section details the use off the firmware tools for both reading and writing the debugger firmware

Firmware Images

Debugger File Version
EC2 ec2-fw-0x14.raw 0x14
EC3 ec3-fw-0x0c.raw 0x0c
EC2 ec2-fw-0x13.raw 0x13
EC3 ec3-fw-0x07.raw 0x07

Note the above firmware images are not usable in homebuilt debuggers as they require the silicon labs bootloader. Since the goal of this project is to provide ec2 / 3 support to linux and not to support black market debuggers the bootloader is not available.

Please note that these images were read directly out of the debuggers by asking the bootloader for them. There was no deompiling of the windows IDE. All understanding required to get these came from watching the RS232 communications with an EC2.

I have seen discussion on the net about people wanting to copy EC2 and EC3 devices but they are so cheap and are packaged nicely why would you bother. Thre reason that ec2drv was written is to allow the use of these nice tidy devices from within linux for those of us with alergic reactions to windows.

Writing new firmware Images into the Debugger

From now on all firmware images provides on this site will be raw unobsured images and will have the extention .raw. The older images were miced up in page order and xored with 0x55 and ended in .bin.

Writing a .raw image

	./ec2-update-firmware --port=USB --image=file.raw --xor
	or
	./ec2-update-firmware --port=/dev/ttyS0 --image=file.raw --xor

The xor is needed because ec2drv must xor raw imaged with 0x55 before the debugger will accept them.

Writing a .bin image

This method is depreciated and should not normally be used

	./ec2-update-firmware --port=USB --image=file.bin --blocks=blocks.txt
	or
	./ec2-update-firmware --port=/dev/ttyS0 --image=file.bin --blocks=blocks.txt

The file blocks.txt must contain decimal numbers of the blocks of firmware to load, one per line. The image file has a stream of pages (blocks) and Silicon labs mixes the order up for no reason other than confusing things.

Reading Firmware images from a debugger

	./ec2readfw --port=USB --firmware --out=image.raw
	or
	./ec2readfw --port=/dev/ttyS0 --firmware --out=image.raw