Over-The-Air (OTA) updates on i.MX RT1176

NXP’s MCU OTA

Over-the-air (OTA) updates, also sometimes known as remote updates, is a solution for remotely updating the software on a device. Remotely meaning that you don’t need physical access to the device when updating its software.

The documents to the right as well as the video below focuses on NXP’s software framework which they call MCU-OTA SBL and SFW. SBL stands for Secure Bootloader and SFW stands for Secure Firmware.

 

This is a video that shows you how to build NXP’s MCU OTA software and deploy it on an iMX RT1176 Developer’s Kit.