KR20020078371A - Method for firmware multi downloading of mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A firmware multi downloading method for a mobile communication terminal is provided to download a firmware to a plurality of terminals once using an algorithm which introduces windows environment and multi-thread concept. CONSTITUTION: A user interface is set in a state in which ports of a PC system are expanded(S101). Port setting association items are set according to the number of expanding ports(ST102). It is retrieved whether a start button for starting a downloading is operated(S103). If the start button is pushed, a function connected to the start button is executed(S104). A thread provided from a windows C++ is generated(S105). A corresponding function is executed as a thread concept using a start function(S106).

Description

Method for firmware multi downloading of mobile communication terminal

The present invention relates to a firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal (hereinafter referred to as "terminal"), and in particular, to a plurality of terminals at a time by using an algorithm that adopts a Windows environment and a multi-threading concept. The present invention relates to a firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal for downloading firmware.

In general, the terminal operates and controls the entire operation of the terminal through firmware embedded in the ROM. When the firmware is manufactured, the manufacturer ships it in ROM in advance. When the function is upgraded, the firmware must be upgraded.

Looking at the method of storing the firmware in the terminal in the conventional terminal manufacturing company as follows.

In the case of the firmware download program, only one terminal is downloaded at a time per PC.

In this case, there is no problem when debugging or testing the firmware, but it takes a long time to mass produce.

For example, it takes about 3 to 5 minutes to download the firmware to one terminal with one computer. If it is necessary to download the firmware to 10 terminals, the time is 30 to 50 minutes.

In this case, if a large number of terminals must be mass produced at a certain time, it takes a lot of modal time, making it difficult to meet the mass production time.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve various problems that occur when downloading firmware to a conventional terminal,

An object of the present invention is to provide a firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal to download firmware to a plurality of terminals at a time by using an algorithm adopting a Windows environment and a multi-thread concept.

The present invention for achieving the above object,

It implements the Windows program using the algorithm that understands the Windows environment and introduces the multi-threading concept, and expands the port to download several terminals at the same time with one computer.

According to the firmware multi-downloading method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention for achieving the technical idea,

In the firmware download method of the mobile communication terminal,

Setting a user interface and setting port setting-related items as many as extended ports;

Checking whether the firmware downloading request is requested after the step, and if the firmware downloading request is a result, performing a function for downloading and creating a thread;

And using the download start function and performing firmware multi-downloading with the generated thread concept.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a firmware multi-downloading apparatus of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100 ..... PC System

201 ~ 200 + N ..... Terminal 1 ~ Terminal n

Hereinafter, described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention according to the technical spirit as described above.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system to which a firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention is applied.

Reference numeral 100 denotes a PC system having an expansion port for downloading the firmware of the terminal, and performs a function of downloading the firmware to a plurality of terminals at the same time.

Further, reference numerals 201 to 200 + N are terminals, and perform a function of downloading firmware from the PC system 100 and storing the firmware in a ROM.

The firmware multi-downloading method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the firmware multi-downloading apparatus of a mobile communication terminal which performs such a function.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

As shown therein, setting the user interface (S101), setting port setting items (ITEM) by the number of expansion ports (S102), determining whether to start downloading the firmware (S103) and A step S104 of performing a start function for firmware downloading, a step S105 of creating a thread, and a step S106 of performing firmware downloading using a start function in a thread concept.

The firmware multi-downloading method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention as described above first expands the ports of the PC system 100 in terms of hardware (up to 32 ports or more possible).

In the state where the port of the PC system 100 is expanded as described above, the user interface is set in step S101.

In other words, the basic user interface is configured to download to all ports expanded by one selection on the terminal firmware downloading window program or to control each port by configuring a progress screen for each port. .

Next, in step S102, port setting-related items IITE are set by the number of extended ports.

In other words, it accepts port device connection handler (eg, HANDLE idComDev), window plug (eg, HWND m_hwnd) to send message, binary file handler (eg, HANDLE hFile) to download, and packet in Comfort-related class. The basic port configuration items such as buffer (eg, BYTE RxBuf), thread to be used for each port (eg, HANDLE hThread), and thread ID (eg, DWORD dwThreadID) are set as the number of extended ports.

Next, if the start button is operated to search for the downloading in Step S103, with the result that the beginning of the button is pressed to perform a function (eg, OnDownload) associated with the button from the floor step S104, the Windows C ⁺⁺ in step S105 The provided thread is created, and the function (eg, DownloadProc1) is executed in the concept of a thread using the AfxBeginThread ((AFX_THREADPROC) function, (LPVOID) object), which is a starting function, in step S106.

After that, the following routine is executed in the corresponding function for each port (i: port number).

Set the appropriate file to download-> SetFilePointer (m_pComm.hFile [i], 0, NULL, FILE_BEGIN)

if (NULL == (hThread [0] = CreateThread ((LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) NULL,

0,

(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) CommWatchProc1,

(LPVOID) this,

0, & dwThreadID [0])))

{

fConnected [0] = FALSE;

CloseHandle (idComDev [0]);

return (FALSE);

} else {

SetThreadPriority (hThread [0], THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL);

ResumeThread (hThread [0]);

}

The above items have been added to the existing terminal firmware download program, which enables simultaneous downloading to multiple terminals.

According to the above-described "multi-downloading method of firmware of a mobile communication terminal" according to the present invention, multi-downloading is possible to a plurality of mobile communication terminals when downloading firmware, so that mass production can be increased and mass production time can be shortened. There is an advantage to that.

For example, in the past, only one terminal was able to download firmware at a time (download time: 3 to 5 minutes) from one computer, but when using the concept of the present invention, using 10 computers and downloading If it takes 5 minutes, you can download the firmware to 120 (10 * 12) terminals per hour.

Claims (2)

In the firmware download method of the mobile communication terminal, Setting a user interface and setting port setting-related items as many as extended ports; Checking whether the firmware downloading request is requested after the step, and if the firmware downloading request is a result, performing a function for downloading and creating a thread; A firmware multi-downloading method of a mobile communication terminal, comprising using a download start function and performing firmware multi-downloading with the generated thread concept. The method of claim 1, wherein the port setting related items, Within the Comfort class, the port device connection handler (eg, HANDLE idComDev), the window plug (eg, HWND m_hwnd) to send messages, the binary file handler to download (eg, HANDLE hFile), and the buffer that receives the packet (eg, BYTE RxBuf), a multi-way firmware download method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that each port (eg, HANDLE hThread) to be set by port, each thread ID (eg, DWORD dwThreadID).