topic Firmware Image Header Creation in LPC Microcontrollers https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/Firmware-Image-Header-Creation/m-p/564409#M16869 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by milind.mishra on Tue Apr 28 22:07:05 MST 2015</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have created a firmware image for a LPC43xx based device. I have to flash it to the SPIFI NOR on the board. Though, LPC has provided with DFUSec utility to flash the firmware due to unavoidable reasons I cannot use that utility.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So the next option with me is to flash the firmware using Flash Magic. The DFU Sec utility prepends the data with a boot image header following which we can successfully flash and execute the firmware. But the DFU Sec can add that header to a bin file</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, there is no such utility for prepend a Header to the hex file generated file, hence an image flashed to the NOR always fails to execute.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any idea on how to add the header to the firmware?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Milind.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:49:04 GMT lpcware 2016-06-15T18:49:04Z Firmware Image Header Creation https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/Firmware-Image-Header-Creation/m-p/564409#M16869 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by milind.mishra on Tue Apr 28 22:07:05 MST 2015</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have created a firmware image for a LPC43xx based device. I have to flash it to the SPIFI NOR on the board. Though, LPC has provided with DFUSec utility to flash the firmware due to unavoidable reasons I cannot use that utility.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So the next option with me is to flash the firmware using Flash Magic. The DFU Sec utility prepends the data with a boot image header following which we can successfully flash and execute the firmware. But the DFU Sec can add that header to a bin file</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, there is no such utility for prepend a Header to the hex file generated file, hence an image flashed to the NOR always fails to execute.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any idea on how to add the header to the firmware?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Milind.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:49:04 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/Firmware-Image-Header-Creation/m-p/564409#M16869 lpcware 2016-06-15T18:49:04Z Re: Firmware Image Header Creation https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/Firmware-Image-Header-Creation/m-p/564410#M16870 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by TheFallGuy on Tue Apr 28 22:42:56 MST 2015</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>Take a look at lpcscrypt which has a utility for doing this</SPAN><BR /><SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://community.nxp.com/external-link.jspa?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lpcware.com%2Flpcscrypt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.lpcware.com/lpcscrypt</A></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:49:05 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/Firmware-Image-Header-Creation/m-p/564410#M16870 lpcware 2016-06-15T18:49:05Z