Inovonics AARON 650, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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Section VI
UPDATING AARON 650 FIRMWARE
THE FIRMWARE UPDATER
The AARON 650 is a firmware-based product. The term ‘firm-
ware’ refers to the code loaded into the microcontroller and
DSP chips, the ‘smarts’ that make the product work.
The AARON 650 includes a ‘bootloader’ utility that allows
firmware to be updated whenever Inovonics issues changes to
add features to improve performance or otherwise expand the
usefulness of the product. Inovonics supplies firmware up-
dates free of any additional charge.
A bootloader is a simple software routine that runs on any PC
on the same network as the AARON 650. Refer to Section IV
for specifics on assuring a connection between the AARON 650
and your computer.
Warning
A firmware update will restore the AARON 650 to factory de-
faults. All settings and presets will be overwritten! Always per-
form a Hardware Profile Save (Page 47) before proceeding with
an update. This will save all user setup parameters.
Firmware
Update Files
A firmware update will be supplied as a ‘zipped’ folder contain-
ing a number of files. This may be distributed as a download
from the Inovonics Website or supplied on a CD-ROM or USB
flash drive. Regardless of how the update is received, make a
temporary
New Folder
on your PC Desktop and unzip these files
to it as shown below.
One of the supplied files is the third-party bootloader utility, an
‘executable’ (.exe) file. Because executables are notorious for
propagating viruses, many antivirus programs will not allow