Infineon XC800 FLOAD V4.7 - Release Notes

Current Version: 4.7 (July 2008)

The Infineon XC800 FLOAD is intended to handle the microcontroller on-chip FLASH of the XC800 families. According to the capabilities of the respective on-chip memory device the program allows to erase, program, verify and protect the module. To program a memory device one can open an Intel-Hex-File and write its contents into the memory device. Infineon XC800 FLOAD 4 can be used on PC's running Microsoft Windows9x, WindowsNT 4.0, Windows2000 or WindowsXPPro. The target is connected to the host PC using a standard RS232 or USB ports.

Installation

To install Infineon XC800 FLOAD V4.7 go to the setup directory and run setup.exe.

Supported operating systems:

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 ( Service Pack 4 or higher) or
Microsoft Windows 98 SE or
Microsoft Windows ME or
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher) or
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Please Note:
You need administrator permissions to install the program on Windows NT based systems.

Supported Controller Families

This version provides support for programming on-chip FLASH memory devices on target systems based on controllers of the following families:

XC800

Supported On-Chip Memory Devices

XC864-1F Program and Data FLASH
XC866-1/2/4F Program and Data FLASH
XC886/888-6/8F Program and Data FLASH
XC878-13/16F Program and Data FLASH

Supported Communication Devices / Interfaces

Standard PC serial port
Standard USB to RS232 converters (available as COMx port within Windows)
Standard USB interface

Features implemented

Version 4.7

support XC864-1F device
support CAN BSL flash programming, by using USCALE as the interface board with any XC800 target board
support XC88x device on FTDI chip starter kit board
support DAS Server to perform flash / XRAM programming and execution
installation script is now able to overwrite the previous FLOAD version without first uninstall the old FLOAD

Version 4.6