CN214177322U - Firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interfaces without centers and exchanges - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a data communication field provides a firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface of no center and no exchange, firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface of no center and no exchange includes the controller and the host computer of being connected with the controller, and is specific: the host is used for sending a firmware upgrading instruction to the controller, the controller is provided with a total serial interface, and the total serial interface is used for being connected with a main device needing upgrading; the utility model discloses changed traditional firmware and upgraded the mode in batches, provided a firmware batch upgrading system based on no center and no serial interface of exchange, effectively reduce the cost, reduce the batch upgrade error rate, make the upgrading mode more nimble, do not have the requirement to upgrading equipment's quantity, use widely in communication technology field easily, practical and spreading value have.
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[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device
The utility model relates to a data communication field, more specifically relate to a firmware is upgrading system in batches based on serial interface of no center and no exchange.
[ background of the invention ]
With the rapid development of electronic technology, a large number of various electronic devices are used in various industries such as consumer fields and industrial fields. The electronic devices with different functions are different in hardware, and the differentiation of the functions is realized through software. However, software has defects, and in order to repair the functional defects of the electronic device at a later stage, an interface for firmware upgrade is usually reserved at the beginning of the design of the electronic device. When the number of electronic devices reaches a certain order of magnitude, the need for firmware batch upgrades is particularly acute in order to reduce the working time and associated costs of maintenance support personnel.
At present, the firmware batch upgrading technical scheme can be roughly divided into two types: 1) there is a center, there is an exchange; 2) with or without switching at the center.
The first technical scheme with central switching usually requires interconnection of devices such as computers, switches, routers and the like, and an IP address of each device needs to be set as unique, so that the computer sending the upgraded firmware is used as a center, that is, all data is finally sent to the computer, when the number of devices upgraded in batches of firmware is more, the computing capability of the computer is higher, the deployment of hardware of the scheme is complex, and the difficulty in software implementation and debugging is higher.
The second technical scheme with no center exchange generally requires that the computer has more similar serial interfaces, and the computer software for processing firmware batch upgrading also needs to simultaneously process communication data of a plurality of serial interfaces, so that after the number of upgrading equipment is increased to a certain number, the communication interfaces of the computer cannot meet the requirement, at the moment, the requirement on hardware configuration of the computer is extremely high, and the complexity of related computer software is increased, thereby reducing the reliability.
In view of the above, it is an urgent problem in the art to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art.
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The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is that, at present, the interface for upgrading the firmware is usually reserved at the beginning of the design of the electronic device, when the number of the electronic devices reaches a certain order of magnitude, a long working time of the maintenance support personnel is needed to be consumed, and the corresponding cost is increased; the existing firmware batch upgrading technology is roughly divided into a firmware batch upgrading technology with a center and exchange and a firmware batch upgrading technology with a center and without exchange; the technical scheme with the center and the exchange usually needs to interconnect devices such as a computer, a switch and a router, and an IP address of each device needs to be set as unique, the computer for sending the upgraded firmware is taken as the center, namely all data are finally sent to the computer, when the number of the devices for upgrading the firmware in batches is more, the computing capacity of the computer is higher, the deployment of hardware of the scheme is complex, and the difficulty of software implementation and debugging is higher; the technical scheme of having the center and having no exchange usually requires that the computer has more similar serial interfaces, and the computer software for processing firmware batch upgrading also needs to simultaneously communicate data of a plurality of serial interfaces, so when the number of upgrading equipment is increased to a certain number, the communication interface of the computer cannot be satisfied, at this moment, the requirement on hardware configuration of the computer is extremely high, and the complexity of the related computer software is increased, thereby reducing the reliability.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface of no center and no exchange, firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface of no center and no exchange includes the controller and the host computer of being connected with the controller, and is specific:
the host is used for sending a firmware upgrading instruction to the controller, the controller is used for receiving firmware upgrading data, the controller is provided with a total serial interface, and the total serial interface is used for being connected with a main device needing upgrading and sending the firmware upgrading data to the main device needing upgrading through the total serial interface; the host may be a computer or any electronic device having a serial interface.
Preferably, the main device to be upgraded is provided with at least two main serial interfaces, and the main device to be upgraded is connected with the total serial interface of the controller through one main serial interface and is used for acquiring firmware upgrading data; and other main serial interfaces of the main equipment needing to be upgraded are used for being connected with other sub-equipment needing to be upgraded.
Preferably, the other sub-devices to be upgraded are provided with at least two sub-serial interfaces, and the other sub-devices to be upgraded are connected with the main serial interface of the main device to be upgraded through one sub-serial interface and are used for acquiring firmware upgrade data; and other branch serial interfaces of other branch devices needing to be upgraded are used for being connected with more branch devices needing to be upgraded, so that the branch devices are sequentially connected in series to form a tree structure.
Preferably, the main device to be upgraded is provided with a status indicator lamp, and the status indicator lamp displays different modes according to whether the main device to be upgraded is in a firmware upgrading state.
Preferably, the other sub-devices to be upgraded are provided with status indicator lamps, and the status indicator lamps display different modes according to whether the other sub-devices to be upgraded are in the firmware upgrading state.
Preferably, the status indicator lamp is an LED lamp.
Preferably, the different modes include a normally bright mode and a blinking mode, specifically:
the status indicator lamp is normally on to indicate that the equipment to which the status indicator lamp belongs is in a firmware upgrading state, or the status indicator lamp flashes to indicate that the equipment to which the status indicator lamp belongs is in the firmware upgrading state.
Preferably, the different modes are distinguished by different colors, the different colors including: any two colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet.
Preferably, the firmware batch upgrading system based on the centerless and swappable serial interfaces further comprises an internal memory, and the internal memory is connected with the controller and is used for storing the firmware upgrading data.
Preferably, the master serial interface and the slave serial interface include UART, I2C, SPI, USB or CAN interfaces.
Generally, through the utility model discloses above technical scheme who conceives compares with prior art, has following beneficial effect:
the utility model discloses changed traditional firmware and upgraded the system in batches, provided a firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface that does not have the center and does not have the exchange, firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface that does not have the center and does not have the exchange requires lowly to computer configuration, only needs a communication interface, and the arithmetic performance requirement to the host computer simultaneously is also low, and under this condition, the upgrading software of host computer only need handle the data of a communication port, therefore, the requirement to the upgrading software of host computer also can reduce; the hardware of the main equipment or the sub-equipment which needs to be upgraded does not need to be complex; the firmware batch upgrading system based on the serial interfaces without centers and exchanges can effectively reduce the cost, reduce the error rate of batch upgrading, make the upgrading mode more flexible, has no requirement on the number of upgrading equipment, is easy to popularize and use in the technical field of communication, and has practical and popularization values.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the invention, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained from these drawings without inventive effort.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a firmware batch upgrading system based on a serial interface without a center and without an exchange according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the invention.
In the description of the present invention, the terms "inside", "outside", "longitudinal", "lateral", "up", "down", "top", "bottom", etc. indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention but do not require that the present invention must be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Furthermore, the technical features mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention described below can be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other. The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.
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the utility model provides a firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface that does not have center and does not have exchange, as shown in FIG. 1, firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interface that does not have center and does not have exchange includes the controller and the host computer of being connected with the controller, and is specific:
the host is used for sending a firmware upgrading instruction to the controller, the controller is used for receiving firmware upgrading data, the controller is provided with a total serial interface, and the total serial interface is used for being connected with a main device needing upgrading and sending the firmware upgrading data to the main device needing upgrading through the total serial interface.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the main device to be upgraded is provided with at least two main serial interfaces, and the main device to be upgraded is connected to the total serial interface of the controller through one main serial interface, so as to obtain firmware upgrade data; and other main serial interfaces of the main equipment needing to be upgraded are used for being connected with other sub-equipment needing to be upgraded.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the other sub-devices to be upgraded are provided with at least two sub-serial interfaces, and the other sub-devices to be upgraded are connected to the main serial interface of the main device to be upgraded through one sub-serial interface, so as to obtain firmware upgrade data; and other branch serial interfaces of other branch devices needing to be upgraded are used for being connected with more branch devices needing to be upgraded, so that the branch devices are sequentially connected in series to form a tree structure.
The embodiment of the utility model provides an in, be equipped with status indicator lamp on the main equipment that needs to be upgraded, status indicator lamp basis whether the main equipment that needs to be upgraded is in firmware upgrading state demonstration different modes.
The embodiment of the utility model provides an in, be equipped with status indicator lamp on the branch equipment that other needs were upgraded, status indicator lamp basis whether the branch equipment that other needs were upgraded is in firmware upgrading state demonstration different modes.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the status indicator lamp is a LED lamp.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the different modes include a normally bright mode and a blinking mode, which are specific:
the status indicator lamp is normally on to indicate that the equipment to which the status indicator lamp belongs is in a firmware upgrading state, or the status indicator lamp flashes to indicate that the equipment to which the status indicator lamp belongs is in the firmware upgrading state.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the different modes are distinguished by different colors, and the different colors include: any two colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet.
The embodiment of the present invention provides an embodiment, the firmware batch upgrading system based on the serial interface without center and exchange further includes an internal memory, the internal memory is connected with the controller for storing the firmware upgrading data.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the total serial interface, the main serial interface and the sub serial interface include a UART, I2C, SPI, USB or CAN interface.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and all modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that are made within the spirit and principles of the present invention should be included within the scope of the present invention.
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1. A firmware batch upgrading system based on serial interfaces without centers and exchanges is characterized by comprising a controller and a host connected with the controller, and specifically comprises the following components:
the host is used for sending a firmware upgrading instruction to the controller, the controller is used for receiving firmware upgrading data, the controller is provided with a total serial interface, and the total serial interface is used for being connected with a main device needing upgrading and sending the firmware upgrading data to the main device needing upgrading through the total serial interface.
2. The system for firmware batch upgrading based on the serial interfaces without centers and exchanges of claim 1, wherein the main device to be upgraded is provided with at least two main serial interfaces, and the main device to be upgraded is connected with the total serial interface of the controller through one main serial interface and is used for acquiring firmware upgrading data; and other main serial interfaces of the main equipment needing to be upgraded are used for being connected with other sub-equipment needing to be upgraded.
3. The firmware batch upgrading system based on the serial interfaces without centers and exchanges as claimed in claim 2, wherein the other branch devices to be upgraded are provided with at least two branch serial interfaces, and the other branch devices to be upgraded are connected with the main serial interface of the main device to be upgraded through one branch serial interface for obtaining firmware upgrading data; and other branch serial interfaces of other branch devices needing to be upgraded are used for being connected with more branch devices needing to be upgraded, so that the branch devices are sequentially connected in series to form a tree structure.
4. The firmware batch upgrading system based on the centerless and commutatorless serial interface of claim 2, wherein the primary device to be upgraded is provided with a status indicator light, and the status indicator light displays different modes according to whether the primary device to be upgraded is in a firmware upgrading state.
5. The firmware batch upgrading system based on the centerless and commutatorless serial interface of claim 3, wherein the other branch devices to be upgraded are provided with status indicator lights, and the status indicator lights show different modes according to whether the other branch devices to be upgraded are in a firmware upgrading state.
6. The centerless and commutatorless serial interface based firmware batch upgrade system of claim 4 or 5, wherein the status indicator light is an LED light.
7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the different modes include a normally bright mode and a blinking mode, specifically:
the status indicator lamp is normally on to indicate that the equipment to which the status indicator lamp belongs is in a firmware upgrading state, or the status indicator lamp flashes to indicate that the equipment to which the status indicator lamp belongs is in the firmware upgrading state.
8. The centerless and commutatorless serial interface based firmware batch upgrade system of claim 6 wherein the different modes are distinguished by different colors, the different colors comprising: any two colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet.
9. The centerless and commutatorless serial interface based firmware batch upgrade system of claim 1 further comprising an internal memory coupled to the controller for storing the firmware upgrade data.
10. The centerless and commutatorless serial interface based firmware batch upgrade system of claim 3, wherein the global serial interface, the master serial interface, and the sub-serial interfaces comprise UART, I2C, SPI, USB, or CAN interfaces.
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