AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide Revision 1.20 July 08th, 2011 1 Copyright © 2011 ASIX Electronics Corporation. All rights reserved. AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide Revision History Revision Date Description 1.00 2011/03/10 Initial release. 1.10 2011/04/07 1. Replaced Hyper Terminal with Tera Term for demonstration. 2. Added Appendix C performance report. 1.20 2011/07/08 1. Added the WiFi Wizard and firmware upgrade for Boot Loader, MCPU, and WCPU image. Updated all the related web page figures. 2. Added the WiFi configuration item for Protection Frame Type. 3. Added section 4-3 RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design Jumpers Setting. 4. Added section 7-1-6 Firmware Upgrade Dialog. 5. Updated two web page figures in section 7-3-3 and 7-3-6-1 to correct the configuration description about the file name length and SSID length. 2 Copyright © 2011 ASIX Electronics Corporation. All rights reserved. AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide Table of Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................... 8 1-1 System Architecture Overview ............................................................. 9 1-2 User Guide Contents .......................................................................... 10 1-3 Additional Resources .......................................................................... 10 2 Block Diagram ......................................................................... 11 3 Features ................................................................................... 12 4 Device Server Hardware Setup .............................................. 15 4-1 Flash Programming Switch Setting .................................................... 16 4-2 COM Port Setting ............................................................................... 16 4-3 RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design Jumpers Setting ........................... 17 5 Network Environment Setup .................................................. 18 5-1 How to Setup Tera Term .................................................................... 18 5-2 Device Server Demo Scenario ........................................................... 20 5-3 Pair Connection Demo Scenario ........................................................ 22 5-3-1 Server Mode Setup ......................................................................................... 22 5-3-2 Client Mode Setup ........................................................................................... 22 5-3-3 Test Procedure ................................................................................................ 23 5-4 How to Make a Connection? .............................................................. 24 6 Software Toolkit Setup ........................................................... 25 6-1 Software Package Installation ............................................................ 25 6-2 Quick Start .......................................................................................... 26 6-2-1 Invoke AXR2W Configuration Utility ................................................................ 26 6-2-2 Menu and Toolbar of AXR2W Configuration Utility ......................................... 27 6-3 Device Search Operation ................................................................... 28 6-4 Virtual Serial Port Operation ............................................................... 29 6-5 Virtual Serial Port Operation Example ................................................ 32 7 Software Function Description .............................................. 35 7-1 Device Management Tool ................................................................... 35 7-1-1 Function Window ............................................................................................. 35 7-1-2 System Setting Dialog ..................................................................................... 36 7-1-3 Search Dialog .................................................................................................. 37 7-1-4 IP Search Dialog ............................................................................................. 37 7-1-5 Device Setup Dialog ........................................................................................ 38 7-1-6 Firmware Upgrade Dialog ............................................................................... 42 7-2 Virtual Serial Port Tool ........................................................................ 43 7-2-1 Function Window ............................................................................................. 43 3 Copyright © 2011 ASIX Electronics Corporation. 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AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide 7-2-2 Add a Virtual Serial Port .................................................................................. 44 7-2-3 Remove a Virtual Serial Port ........................................................................... 45 7-2-4 Set a Virtual Serial Port ................................................................................... 45 7-2-5 Make a Connection and Close a Virtual Serial Port ........................................ 46 7-2-6 Auto-Binding Function ..................................................................................... 46 7-3 Web Server Remote Configuration ..................................................... 48 7-3-1 Login Authentication Page .............................................................................. 48 7-3-2 Basic Page ...................................................................................................... 49 7-3-3 Advanced Page ............................................................................................... 50 7-3-4 Security Page .................................................................................................. 51 7-3-5 WiFi Page ........................................................................................................ 52 7-3-6 WiFi Wizard Page ........................................................................................... 53 7-3-7 Status Page ..................................................................................................... 59 7-4 Device Monitor Tool ............................................................................ 60 7-4-1 Function Window ............................................................................................. 60 7-5 DHCP Server Tool .............................................................................. 61 7-5-1 Function Window ............................................................................................. 61 7-6 TFTP Server Tool ............................................................................... 62 7-6-1 Function Window ............................................................................................. 62 7-7 COM Port Terminal Tool ..................................................................... 63 7-7-1 Function Window ............................................................................................. 63 7-8 Command Line Interface (CLI) ........................................................... 64 8 Flash Programming .................................................................. 65 8-1 AX220xx Flash Memory Partitions ..................................................... 65 8-1-1 Boot Loader Firmware Sector ......................................................................... 66 8-1-2 Software Configuration Sector ........................................................................ 66 8-1-3 Hardware Configuration Sector ....................................................................... 66 8-1-4 MCPU Sub-System Firmware Sectors ............................................................ 66 8-1-5 Firmware Upgrade Temporary Sectors ........................................................... 66 8-1-6 WCPU Sub-System Firmware Sectors ............................................................ 66 8-2 Burning Firmware via COM Port ISP Mode ........................................ 67 9 Software Modules ..................................................................... 69 9-1 Peripheral Software Modules ............................................................. 69 9-2 TCP/IP Stacks .................................................................................... 69 9-3 Upper Protocol Modules ..................................................................... 69 10 Software Development Tools ............................................... 71 10-1 Software Compiler Tool .................................................................... 71 10-2 Software Debugger Tool ................................................................... 71 Appendix A Software Availability ............................................. 73 Appendix B I2C EEPROM or Flash SA2 Default Setting ......... 74 4 Copyright © 2011 ASIX Electronics Corporation. All rights reserved. AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide Appendix C Device Server Throughput Report ....................... 76 5 Copyright © 2011 ASIX Electronics Corporation. All rights reserved. AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Reference Design User Guide List of Figures Figure 1-1 Device Server System Architecture Diagram .................................................................................. 9 Figure 2-1 AX220xx RS-232 to WiFi Block Diagram .....................................................................................