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WP 34S Owner‘s Manual
Edition 2.2
Page 94 of 103
APPENDIX A: SUPPORT FOR FLASHING, SERIAL I/O ETC.
How to Flash Your HP 20b or 30b
You may do the flashing yourself. Then you need your calculator, a special connecting cable,
and specific software on your PC or Mac. A PC featuring an hardware serial port and running
Windows XP is beneficial.
Please read this paragraph completely before actually starting
the procedure.
You will get the necessary software
– the SAM-BA In-system Programmer – here for free:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3883
Install it as explained by Atmel.
You may get the cable from Gene Wright.
The specific file you will need to transmit to your calculator to make it your WP 34S is called
calc.bin
and is included in the zipped package you can download from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wp34s/files/
Alternatively, you may download
calc.bin
alone from
http://wp34s.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wp34s/trunk/realbuild/
Now, having got these three (SAM-BA, the cable, and
calc.bin
)
, please turn to the file
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10022608/Flashing%20a%2020b%20Calculator.pdf
(edited
by
Tim
Wessmann and Gene Wright). Read it thoroughly for information about connecting and flashing.
ATTENTION:
If your PC does not feature an hardware serial interface, you will need an
USB-to-serial converter to connect the special cable to your PC. Following our experience,
converters containing FTDI chips will work
– others may not.
On other operating systems than XP flashing may work or not (definitively not on Windows
2000 or earlier). Please check.
On Windows 7 load MS Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, then work therein.
Then proceed as described in
Flashing a 20b Unit
in said file, steps 1 to 3 only.
ATTENTION:
Flashing your
HP 20b
or
30b
will erase the HP firmware in step 3, meaning
your business calculator will be gone then. The firmware will be replaced with the WP 34S
file completely! After this flash is finished, you will have a
WP 34S RPN Scientific
– i.e. your
calculator will react as documented in this very manual.
This also means your device will not do anything useful for you between step 3 and 13. It
may even look dead
– it is not, be assured, at least it will just be eating your batteries (see
below)! If you (have to) interrupt the flashing process at any time in this interval for any rea-
son whatsoever
, don‘t worry: simply start again. You may, however, not get any feedback
displayed in step 3 anymore. That does not matter, just stick to the procedure.
As long as the cable is connected to your calculator, it will draw a considerable current from
the calculator batteries. If you happen to hang anywhere in the flashing process, also the
processor is left running at full speed. So chances are high your coin cells will be drained
while you are trying to find out what is going wrong. Thus it is wise to disconnect the cable
from your calculator when you will not need the cable for the next couple of minutes. For re-
peated flashing, an external 3V DC supply may pay very fast. Take care to c to the
outer and
– to the inner contact. The following will work with a good 3V supply only.