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I. XU316 Firmware upgrade with DFU

This guide primarily focuses on firmware upgrades in a Windows environment; for other computer systems, please refer to the following link:

XMOS DFU

Prerequisites

To upgrade the firmware on a Windows system, you will need the following tools:

II. Firmware Upgrade Process

2.1 Zadig Configuration

  1. Before upgrading the firmware, ensure that the data cable is properly connected.
  2. Open the Zadig tool and select as shown in the figure: zadig Configuration Image
  3. Click on "Reinstall Driver" in the figure and wait for the success prompt.

2.2 Upgrade via dfu-util

  1. Navigate to the root directory of the dfu-util executable file: dfu-util-0.11-binaries\win64 or dfu-util-0.11-binaries\win32, depending on your Windows version. The following instructions are for the win64 version.

  2. Enter the command dfu-prefix.exe --version

  3. Receive the prompt "please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/" to indicate success.

  4. Copy the firmware to be upgraded into the dfu-util-0.11-binaries\win64 directory.

  5. Enter the command: dfu-util -e -d 4000 -a 1 -D example_ffva_ua_adec_upgrade.bin Note that example_ffva_ua_adec_upgrade.bin is a placeholder and should be replaced with the actual firmware file name you wish to upgrade.

  6. After running, you will receive the following prompts indicating a successful upgrade:

dfu-util 0.11

Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
Copyright 2010-2021 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/ 

Warning: Invalid DFU suffix signature
A valid DFU suffix will be required in a future dfu-util release
Opening DFU capable USB device...
Device ID 20b1:4001
Run-Time device DFU version 0101
 Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Interface #1 ...
Determining device status...
DFU state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present
DFU mode device DFU version 0101
Device returned transfer size 4096
Copying data from PC to DFU device
Download        [=========================] 100%       331776 bytes
Download done.
DFU state(7) = dfuMANIFEST, status(0) = No error condition is present
DFU state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present
Done!