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Re: [AVR-Chat] firmware update via wireless

2006-08-31 by Dennis Clark

Oh yeah,

   And you want to talk about _paranoid_ download protocols? :)

DLC

Zack Widup wrote:
> I figure if we could completely reprogram the Galileo spacecraft as it 
> left our solar system, then we could reprogram anything from a distance.  
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> Zack
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> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dennis Clark wrote:
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>>You'd better use a very robust error detection/correction packet scheme. 
>>  Wireless is inherently unreliable.  Also, you'll need to be sure that 
>>your device can deal with a corrupted download and still be able to be 
>>put into "update" mode.  There is no reason it can't be done, but I 
>>recommend a very paranoid protocol to handle it!
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>>DLC
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