Chapter 7 Universal Serial Device Gateway
Advantech EDG-4508+/4516+ provides a mechanism that allows user to upgrade the firmware. After upgrading the firmware, EDG-4508+/4516+ will turn into universal serial device gateway and denominate "EDG- 4508+U/4516+U". EDG-4508+U/4516+U allows nearly any device to serial ports to connect to the Ethernet and share networks quickly. It provides a fast, simple and cost-effective way to bring the advantages of remote management and data accessibility to thousands of devices that cannot connect to the network.
EDG-4508+U/4516+U supports standard networking application programming interface (API) such as WinSock and Socket, therefore, your serial devices can be used in most popular operating systems with EDG-4508+U/4516+U. Moreover, EDG-4508+U/4516+U allows the serial device to communicate with other devices by peer-to-peer without any intermediate host PCs and software programming, which saves cost and effort.
7.1 EDG-4508+/4516+ Firmware updated procedure
This session introduces how to update the firmware from EDG-4508+/ 4516+ to EDG-4508+U/4516+U. We will take EDG-4508+ as an example to explain the following procedure.
1.Execute the application "EDG serial download and testing utility". Select your model name and IP address, and then press "Download FW" button.
2.Click the "Open button" in the Window of "EDG-4508+ Download Firmware". Select the right firmware file (*.exf) to download to your EDG. (All of the firmware files are located in C:\\Program Files\Advantech\EDG COM Port Utility\firmware\ when you install the EDG COM port utility.)
File Name | Description |
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4508+Uv200.exf | The firmware of EDG-4508+U; version 2.0. |
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4508+v200.exf | The firmware of EDG-4508+; version 2.0. |
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4516+U200.exf | The firmware of EDG-4516+U; version 2.0 |
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4516+v200.exf | The version of EDG-4516+; version 2.0 |
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