After long time, I found some time to work on my new P89V51RD2 (8051 MicroController from NXP) kit. NXP provides FlashMagic tool to flash the assembled HEX file. Unfortunately this tool is available only for MS-Windows versions. Since I am using only Linux for all my home works, for last few months I had been trying to make it work with Linux using wine (Windows Emulator). Today I found it is succesfully flashing. I am using FlashMagic version 4.33. Fine, let us see how to get it done?
Setup
- P89V51RD2 based Microcontroller kit from Emblitz
- FlashMagic 4.33 – Previous versions are not working (atleast for me)
- OpenSUSE 11.0 (linux kernel 2.6.25)
- Wine 1.0-rc3
Procedure
1. Ensure that wine is installed on your linux machine.
2. Download FlashMagic (only Windows version) from this site.
3. Install the FlashMagic ($wine FlashMagic.exe). Follow the installation wizard and get it installed.
4. Ensure that your login has permission to use serial port (which you use to communicate with kit for flashing). Mostly you may have to be a member of uucp group.
5. Run FlashMagic ($wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Flash Magic/FlashMagic.exe)
Running FlashMagic on OpenSUSE linux
6. Set the Step-1 Communications section parameters as per your Kit’s requirement.
7. For me, this setting was not enough to get it done. I had to do the following settings also.
Options -> Advanced options -> Hardware config -> Use DTR to control RTS should be unchecked.
Options -> Advanced options -> Hardware config -> Assert DTR and RTS while COM Port open should also be unchecked.
Advanced configuration settings
8. Then to ensure that FlashMagic successfully communicates with Kit, read the signature of Microcontroller using ISP -> Read Device Signature option. It may ask you to reset the kit in ISP mode; do it as per your kit. If you are able to read the signature, you will be able to flash the chip.
Reading the device signature may need a ISP reset
Successfully read Device Signature
Enjoy the world of chips and l-o-w l-e-v-e-l languages happily!
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Rohan says:
Thanks for giving this info for downloading a .hex file.
But,i am using Laptop and it have no serial port. SO, i am using USB to Serial cable.Can you tell me how to select USB cable in the COM port as well how can i know which port i had to select..
Posted on February 24, 2009 at 5:36 pm.
swamytk says:
Hi Rohan,
1. Once you plug-in USB-Serial converter, run “dmesg” in command line. At the end, you will see which device your converter mapped. It is something like (e.g. ttyUSB0). This device node file should be available under /dev or its sub-directory. Find it out and note down.
2. Ensure that you have rw permission for that device. Otherwise add your user in that group (don’t change the permission, once you restart you may lose this permission settings. Device detection and node creation are taken care by the udev during startup!)
3. Now create a symbolic soft link to this ttyUSB0 in your ~/wine/dosdevices/ as com1 as given below. Execute this command as normal user (not root). It is something like given below.
4. In Flash Magic select COM1 (if you have mapped com1) as your device. that is all man!
Posted on February 24, 2009 at 10:30 pm.
Rohan says:
Thanks….
As, you told me i have done all the setting, but still i am not able to communicate with my target.
I am getting the error..
Unable to Communicate.(configuration)Ensure no other applications are using the COM port……
i m not using any other application with COM port also….
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 11:42 am.
revanth says:
i am very delighted to use know about this,i use open suse for all my needs but only for 8051 related things,i have to switch back to windows,if this works for me,i’l forget windows.
i tried the steps,i downloaded flashmagic,but when i give,wine FlashMagic.exe on bash,i get the following error,how to solve this,please help,
wine: could not load L”C:\\windows\\system32\\FlashMagic.exe”: Module not found
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 5:23 pm.
revanth says:
i found the solution,its working fine, thanks for the idea,
linux rocks…
Jai Hind
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 6:04 pm.
T. Nickerson says:
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Posted on December 14, 2009 at 4:07 pm.
naz says:
As, you told me i have done all the setting, but still i am not able to communicate with my target.
I am getting the error..
operation failed:failed to auto baud step1..
Posted on March 3, 2010 at 1:39 pm.
swamytk says:
Your case may be different from me… try to work around the various settings in the tool – that is how I got it done
Posted on March 3, 2010 at 11:38 pm.
viswanath says:
dude.. thanks a lot man.. ur a life saver!!
Posted on August 8, 2010 at 10:22 am.
darkore says:
Thanks! Working like a charm. Yet another good reason not to boot Windows at all, not even from VBox
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:18 pm.