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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
4508+Uv200.exf The firmware of EDG-4508+U; version 2.0.
4508+v200.exf The firmware of EDG-4508+; version 2.0.
4516+U200.exf The firmware of EDG-4516+U; version 2.0
4516+v200.exf T he version of EDG-4516+; version 2.0