iRBX6GF User’s Manual
UM-iRBX6GF-4.5.1-EN.docx
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8.6
Upgrade Procedure
Upgrading via Boot Loader
Copy irbx_image-xxxxx.itb—firmware upgrade image file on TFTP Server to Base Directory
(c:\TFTP).
Setting up IP addresses
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Set IP on PC and iRBX; make sure that IP addresses are in same subnet and pinging is successful.
•
On PC, disable Windows Firewall
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Connect PC to iRBX Management port
You may use Option 7 to ping the TFTP Server and check connectivity. For the opposite direction,
pinging from PC to iRBX may not work.
FPGA Upgrading
FPGA Upgrade can be performed through u-boot menu by following the steps:
1.
Ensure compliance with the hardware requirements: D006-PS0103-FM0615-FB0614 or later
2.
Obtain file irbx-fpga-X.YY.itb (for this manual the most current version is irbx-fpga-6.15.itb)
The iRBX Boor menu 5.34 <6.15> appears:
3.
Identify the FPGA version- currently the version is
6.15
and the file is
irbx-fpga-6.15.itb
.
iRBX# configure terminal
iRBX# (config)# reboot
PORT1 forwarding
PORT2 forwarding
PORT3 forwarding
PORT4 forwarding
PORT5 forwarding
PORT6 forwarding
PORT1: bridge normal mode
PORT2: bridge normal mode
[0x8] <- 0x8000
reboot: Restarting system
Machine restart (c2800000)...
U-Boot 2014.10 (Dec 10 2018 - 20:51:31)
CPU : Nios-II
SYSID : ffffffff, Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 1969
BOARD : iRBX
Watchdog enabled
DRAM: 128 MiB
Flash: 128 MiB
Net: ALTERA_TSE-0