FW Flasher

Use case

Engineers deliver firmware and a manifest.json file for all the complicated settings, while other non-technical people perform the firmware flashing with simple clicks.

Features

• Config with JSON file

• Multiple backends

  • esptool
    • type=esp*
    • Experimental external enablement of flash encryption (development mode) + secure boot for esp32c3
  • Black Magic Probe
    • type=bmp
  • OpenOCD
    • type=openocd
    • Interfaces with device enumeration support:
      • cmsis-dap
      • jlink
  • dfu-util
    • type=dfu
    • Still needs zadig to fix driver issue on windows
  • PyOCD
    • type=pyocd

• Batch Flashing

  • Based on port detection, newly detected ports will be flashed automatically
  • Tested with esptool backend only

• Cross-Platform

  • Linux
  • macOS (tested with M2)
  • Windows x64

Screenshots

Development

Extra Dependencies

• Download Arm GNU Toolchain and extract it to the root of the FwFlather so that arm-none-eabi-gdb is in the gcc-arm-none-eabi-X.Y-Z/bin directory
• Download OpenOCD and extract it to the root of the FwFlasher so that openocd is in the *openocd-X.Y-Z/bin directory
• Download dfu-util and extract it to the root of the FwFlasher so that dfu-util is in the dfu-util-X.Y-binaries/osname/ directory