December, 2006
© 2006, JCM American, Corporation
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Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
PALM PILOT
®
APPLICATIONS
P
ALM
F
LASH
• Palm Flash is an application used to load operating software into the A-66 Coin
Changer
• The Flash Memory size of the A-66 is 32K bytes in size
• Download takes about 40 seconds using a Palm Pilot
®
PDA.
Flashing the A-66 Coin Changer Memory:
Perform the following steps to Flash the A-66 memory:
1. Connect the PDA to the A-66 using the Palm Dongle Cable Assembly.
2. Run the Palm Flash program by selecting the
‘PalmFlash’
then select the large
‘Flash Update for Optpay Coin Changer’
and click on the
'Start'
screen button that appears (See Figure 7 a). The A-66
operating software will now be transferred into Flash Memory. When the down-
load is complete, the PDA status will indicate
'Programming OK'
Figure 8). The
‘Back’
button will always return the user to the previous screen.
Figure 6
Flash Update Select Screen
Figure 5
Palm Optipay Apps Screen
a
P
ALM
F
LASH
A
PPLICATION
(C
ONTINUED
)
Software load verification:
Perform the following steps to verify the download operation:
1. Run the A-66US application by selecting the
'Palm A66US'
Icon on the PDA.
2. On the next PDA screen, click on the
'Diagnostics'
Screen Button
3. The currently installed software version will be displayed at the top of the
‘Diagnostic’
Figure 8
Flash Program OK Screen
Figure 7
Flash Start Button Screen
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Figure 10
Flash Load Verify Screen
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Figure 9
Diagnostic Select Screen
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