Firmware Management - Philips SOPHO SuperVisor 25 Engineer's Manual

The connector is also used for auxiliary equipment which can be announcers, a recorder or an
external buzzer. If you have no auxiliary equipment connected to the interface you can
connect the PC directly to the interface. The signals for the auxiliary equipment are
terminated on pins which are generally not used on the PC V.24 interface. Yet if they are used
on the PC interface you do not run any risk because these signals do not "source" current or
voltage. They can sink V.24 signals.
If you use auxiliary equipment, a special cable is provided to split the V.24 signals from the
auxiliary signals. This splitted cable is equipped with at the supervisor side a 25p D-connector
and at the equipment side a 25p D-connector (for the PC) together with a 9p D-connector
(for the auxiliary equipment). For the V.24 signals this cable is one-to-one between the 25p D-
connector at the supervisor side and the 25p D-connector at the other side of the cable.
For more information on the interface and cabling see chapter 6, section 'V.24 Interface +
Auxiliary Interface'.
Connect the Supervisor to the COM1 port of the PC. This is the default port in the software
tools for SuperVisor management. If your PC has a DTE V.24 interface (generally), you can use
a one-to-one V.24 cable.
4.3.

FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT

Firmware management is only necessary if the firmware in the FEPROMs in model 25 or
model 35 is corrupted or must be upgraded. It is only possible to upload the firmware from
the PC to the console. Downloading is not possible. For uploading the following tool is
available on floppy:
- SVFW200.EXE.
Together with the tool, the firmware data is present on the floppy as well as the language data:
- SV_35_v.DWL (Firmware for model 25 and 35, v=version number);
- VPUD01_v.DWL... VPUD09_v.DWL (Language data files 1...9, v=version number);
The tool can be started and executed from floppy or hard disk. If you want to run it from hard
disk, copy the files from the floppy to a dedicated directory on the hard disk.
PROCEDURE: Firmware Version 1.2 and Upwards
In firmware package version 1.2 and upwards, the sorting order of the directory records is
adapted to Danish and Swedish.
In the previous firmware packages the sorting order was the same for all languages. In
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