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3. Antenna Analyzer(EU1KY) - How to update the firmware

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 05:47 AM PST
http://www.hamskey.com/2019/02/3-ant...to-update.html

Antenna Analyzer(EU1KY) - How to Firmware Update You can easily find some
Firmware for Antenna Analyzer(EU1KY) on the internet. I will also release
imporved firmware soon.

if you have AA (EU1KY's antenna analyzer), you cans use all the firmware. i
will try to explain it in this article


(AA firmware CEC Version will be released within one week.)


I am planning several series about the EU1KY antenna.

1.Introduction -
http://www.hamskey.com/2019/02/faa-4...y.html2.Create
FAA-450 (this article) -
http://www.hamskey.com/2019/02/assem...0-antenna.html
3.How to update the firmware (this article)
4.Principle of Antenna Analyzer
5.Antenna Analyzer Firmware Improvement


1.Download Software for Firmware Update

Click the below link
https://www.st.com/en/development-to...w-link004.html




Click the Get Software (STSW-LINK004)


Enter you name and email address in the fields on download page.


Please check the mail you entered. perhaps you will receive an email with a
download link (stlink)

click the link, The ST-Link file is downloaded as shown below.



extract .zip file and execute STM32xxxxxxxxxsetup.exe







When installation is complete, plug SD card into STM32F746 Discovery board.

* I explain all of the updates to several types of firmware, but you do not
have to follow them all. You can test it all for practice and you can do
just one of the three below.
Be sure to initialize the SD card when changing or updating the firmware.
(The configuration file is incompatible)
AA firmware CEC Version will be released within one week.

2.Install EU1KY's Firmware
CAUTION: Be sure to format the SD card before updating any other version of
the firmware. Alternatively, you can delete only the AA directory in the SD
card. The structure of the configuration file differs depending on the type
of firmware and may not work normally.

Download Firmware
Click the below link
https://bitbucket.org/kuchura/eu1ky_aa_v3/downloads/



Click the 'Firmware_binary_rev_343.zip'
https://bitbucket.org/kuchura/eu1ky_...ry_rev_343.zip

extract Firmware_binary_rev_343
Connect AA to computer. Please refer to the picture below.

Execute STM32 ST-LINK Utility.





Click the File - Open file...


Select firmware file 'F7Discovery.bin' and click the Open Button


The firmware file will be loaded into ST Link.


Click the 'Program and Verify' button


Click the Start Button


When the firmware upload is completed, the following screen appears.


You can use AA only if you calibrate. How to calibrate will be posted soon.

3.Install DH1AKF's Firmware
CAUTION: Be sure to format the SD card before updating any other version of
the firmware. Alternatively, you can delete only the AA directory in the SD
card. The structure of the configuration file differs depending on the type
of firmware and may not work normally.

Download Firmware
Click the below link
http://www.wkiefer.de/x28/EU1KY_AA.htm






Click the 'Firmwa http://wkiefer.de/x28/test/F7Discovery.bin'
http://wkiefer.de/x28/test/F7Discovery.bin

Connect AA to computer. Please refer to the picture below.

Execute STM32 ST-LINK Utility.





Click the File - Open file...



Select Firmware file 'F7Discovery.bin' and click the open button.




The firmware file will be loaded into ST Link.


Click the 'Program and Verify' button






When the firmware upload is completed, the following screen appears.


4.Install KD8CEC's Firmware
CAUTION: Be sure to format the SD card before updating any other version of
the firmware. Alternatively, you can delete only the AA directory in the SD
card. The structure of the configuration file differs depending on the type
of firmware and may not work normally.

Download Firmware
Click the below link

Not yet available. We will distribute it as a separate post within one
week. The first version has been completed and is under testing.


Click the 'AA_CEC_V0.1.zip'
Extract downloaded file.

Connect AA to computer. Please refer to the picture below.

Execute STM32 ST-LINK Utility.





Click the File - Open file...



Select Firmware file 'AA_CEC_Vxxx.bin' and click the open button.



The firmware file will be loaded into ST Link.


Click the 'Program and Verify' button



Click the Start Button.



When the firmware upload is completed, the following screen appears.
( I only changed the main menu to the GUI. The GUI on the other screen is
mostly the same as the other firmware. )


5.Video (include all step in this article)


6.Conclusion
The STM32F746 Discovery used in AA has built-in RAM and Flash memory. If
you take advantage of these, it seems to be able to embed quite a variety
of functions. Until CEC Version 1.0, we will continue to improve AA.

Thanks for reading.

Ian KD8CEC