Tag Archives: CAN

Introducing the CanFlasherBLT firmware

Do you run the OpenBLT bootloader on your microcontroller based system, configured for firmware updates via the CAN bus? Does it bother you that everyone performing the firmware update, needs a fairly expensive USB-CAN PC adapter to do so? If … Continue reading

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Firmware updates in a network with multiple nodes

Internally, the OpenBLT bootloader is based on the XCP communication protocol. XCP is a point-to-point protocol for establishing a connection between a host PC and a microcontroller. Now consider a system with multiple nodes, where each node consists of a … Continue reading

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Improved CAN support in OpenBLT 1.4.1

Last week OpenBLT version 1.4.1 was released. Besides some code refactoring, this patch release features improved support for firmware updates via Controller Area Network (CAN). The improved CAN support is part of the roadmap to version 1.5.0. Several users reported … Continue reading

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