Research on Remote Online Firmware Upgrade System for Embedded Devices

Abstract

To effectively reduce the cost of firmware upgrade and maintenance of embedded devices, according to the requirement of a remote firmware update of embedded devices, this paper proposes a remote online firmware upgrade technology based on ZigBee. Combined with the requirements of remote online firmware upgrade application of tower-mounted amplifier, this paper analyzes and studies the system requirements, ZigBee module selection and design, software design and implementation (communication protocol design of host and slave program, breakpoint continuation function), fault analysis and other aspects. Designed experiments and tested the ZigBee connection success rate under the device startup state and normal operation state, the relationship between transmission firmware size and transmission success rate, system CPU resource consumption, transmission distance, transmission rate, the success rate, data reuse rate and acceleration ratio of breakpoint continuation function, and other performance indicators. The experimental results show that the remote online firmware upgrade technology based on ZigBee for embedded devices can better meet the system's performance requirements in all aspects and improve the data reuse rate and acceleration ratio in the process of data transmission. The experimental results show that this scheme has the advantages of simplicity, low cost, high reliability, and broad application prospects.