PTN3460 flashaux.exe update

[kasperhansen]

Is there an updated version of the flashaux.exe tool used for programming NXP PTN3460 with new EDID files?

The current version we have is from 2014 and is being wrongly flagged by Windows Defender as a trojan and deleted. Until now we have been able to get around this in production but last week they reported that it is now a real pain to use.

Please let me know if this issue is known and how we should resolve it

[kasperhansen]

Hi Tomas

Thank you very much for your in-depth answer and solution!

[TomasVaverka]

Hello Kasper,

The “flashaux.exe” was not infected by any virus.

The “flashaux.exe” was used win32forth compiler (free/public domain compiler) to build up Windows application program, however some anti-virus software may treat Windows application program which was compiled by win32forth compiler as potential threat and delete it (it’s called false positive detection).

NXP has come out new FoA (Flash-Over-Aux) Windows application program (flashwin.exe) which was used Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to compile, so that it will not be detected as potential threat by any anti-virus software.

Please use attached FoA for EDID tool version no 2 which includes these files: 

• Flashwin.exe: The flash-over-AUX utility main program
• AuxDLL.dll: DLL used to communicate over AUX channel
• FLASH.BIN: Flash memory programming algorithm
• CONFIG.bin: EDID Binary file (4K) to flash
• FoA_EDID.bat: The batch file to program EDID file.
• FoA_EDID(Emulation off): The batch file to program EDID file.
• HxD.exe: Bin file editor.
• AN11128_V1.8.pdf: The latest version of PTN3460 programming guide.
• CONFIG.bin, EMU_OFF.bin: Configuration bin file.

Please use below command to program entire firmware to the PTN3460.

• fashwin flash.bin ptn3460.bin (32K bytes firmware code).

Please use below command to program configuration table to the PTN3460.

• fashwin -e flash.bin config.bin (4K bytes configuration table).

PS: the password for the rar file is NXP.

Best regards,

Tomas