The firmware revision history is available
here.
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== Version 4.4 ==
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dr240_1502_release_v4-4
12 Sep 2016
- VM: fixed a serious bug in fSTTimeSince & STTest that 2 days after the controller is turned on made both functions think the elapsed time is always greater than 167772.16s.
- ARM: The SPLat/VM on ARM boards was throwing a RAM OutOfBounds error when trying to access byte 250 which is actually the legal last address.
- VM: Doing a fGetTimer or Test quickly after starting a timer may sometimes have caused the timer to expire immediately.
- VM: WtoU, QtoU, UtoW, UtoQ, fixToU, floatFromU, would incorrectly error when loading a float into U[16+]
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== Version 4.3 ==
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09 May 2016
- DR240: new SEXI app doubles performance.
- VM: WaitOnKT wasn't working (incorrect opcode length)
- DR240, DR8: updates for new OD had broken the status LED
- VM: GoIfInOn/Off/K were ignoring "J"
- VM: Fixed STTest which was not working correctly due to a typo. It was especially worse with small delays.
- VM: NVReadRec & NVWriteRec were incorrectly expecting a 16 bit address but it's only an 8 bit address.
- DR240: now using generic bi-LED driver
- VM: A change to detect duplicated slave entries in the Xwire table was preventing correct parsing of the table, meaning slaves often weren't being added to the I/O map.
- OS: Saw the 1 second timer getting delayed, manifested by ComTestStartTimer taking 13 seconds dignal rather than 10. Due to timers being deleted before the next timer was fetched.
- VM: ComTestStartTimer now using fast tick to avoid expiring after 9 - 10 seconds (only following RUN from SPLat/PC, power on was always 10s).
- VM: XwireGetPollCntr now increments as soon as a packet is received rather than at the start of sending the response, this also fixed a problem where poll count was not incrementing if the slave had no data to return; interpacket time delays have been shortend to increase throughput.
- VM: Fixed display of PermStore values in the "Module" window in SPLat/PC as all bytes were off by 1, thus the first byte was always missing and the "status" was never correct.
- VM: the Xwire LCD master now sends zeroes for the command bytes (blink, etc) otherwise sending these bytes sent garbage and stuffed up the LCD.
- VM: SEXI was not working when analogue I/O didn't start at 0
- OS: On ST micros, quadrature is now always 24bit even for 16 bit timers.
- ST quadrature now leves the pullup and drive modes unaltered
- OS: analogue output number is now contigous as there would have been problem if a DAC was in the middle of PWM
- VM: now able to report analogue I/O when numbering doesn't start at 0
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== Version 4.2 ==
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27 Jan 2016
- DR240: SEXI app was always using address 0 as it needed a delay before reading the DIP switches
- VM: low speed digital (OBCB) counting now works on ARM controllers.
- SPLatVM: SEXI was not turning off blinking outputs when SPLat/PC connected
- SEXI: a duplicate slave entry in the Xwire table now doesn't incorrectly increase the nof I/O's;
- VM: More than 10 analogues, in or out, are now correctly sent to SPLat/PC.
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== Version 4.1 ==
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23 Sep 2015
- DR240: enabled read protection
- DR240: Adjust COM port assignment, now TTL is 251, 485 is 252 and USB is 253
- VM: Now ensure countdown timers are cleared on VM reset
- VM: loss of SPLat/PC will now stop I/O update messages from being sent.
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== Version 4.0 ==
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07 Aug 2015
- First release.